Originally Posted by
Tuerto
Maybe this goes to show what a difficult job Referees and their assistants have had in making decisions for offside and plenty of other incidents. This is what people seemed to have wanted though, football fans crying on radio phone ins, celebrity managers berating the officials after a game like they'd tried to kidnap one of their kids, the blowhards have won the day, and now what we're seeing is zero interpretation over the offside rule, moments of brilliance wiped out because of a couple of millimetres. Entitled football fans, the media, players who have intimidated officials and managers and pundits who have sanctioned that type of behaviour have got what they wanted. In football you win some decisions and you lose some, that's it.