Learn the new offside rule and you realise Micheal Oliver was correct!
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I have been watching City since 1964 and tonight I saw the most inexplicable refereeing decision that I have ever seen. Josh Murphy was caught offside upfield about 15 metres into the Utd half and the referee blew up and gave the free kick. He then let Ashley Young take the kick about 15 metres inside Citys half and waived play on when our players complained. There is no reasonable explanation for this other than bias or incompetence (or both). Utd could easily have scored from it. He should be severely censured by the Referees Association and Premier League for this. Not the only bad decision by him and his linesman during the game either. He then compounded all this in the second half when he blew up because we took a free kick about 3 metres from the correct place and made us take it again.
Learn the new offside rule and you realise Micheal Oliver was correct!
Apparently so.
I think we felt their first goal came from a soft free-kick and that there was high boot into Zohore's head and Cunningham(?) being shoulder charged by Man United winger with neither Man United player facing s sanction. Don't think he had the best game even if it really didn't impact on the result.
Pogba going through the back of Hoilett and not even getting booked was just baffling
I’m afraid Pug appears to be correct, having read through the rule on it. He was offside in their half when the ball was played but actually received the ball in our half.
Bloody good ref ???then yes or no ??? ,one things for sure they are better than last years useful idiots.
I posted earlier that the offside decision was wrong, I must admit that I was wrong,
when the ball was played forward Murphy was in an offside position but no flag, but then he went into his own half and received the ball therefore was flagged offside as you can be offside in your own half under the rules.
Offences and sanctions
If an offside offense occurs, the referee awards an indirect free kick where the offense occurred, including if it is in the player’s own half of the field of play. the offense occurred in our half as that is where murphy touched the ball after being originally offside in their half
http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-...w-11---offside
Some people need to learn the rules themselves before chastising the referee so it seems.
I don’t think anybody is saying that the referee influenced the result.
There does seem to be some inconsistency in what some refs will blow for compared to others.
Oliver seemed to blow for every strong challenge whereas the lad at Watford let it go.
Perhaps our back room staff need to do some analysis of how to play to the refs in future as we don’t seem to be able to read their interpretations well