Quote Originally Posted by Forest Green Bluebird View Post
Basically inferring ... "What happens if one or more players get seriously injured if play is allowed to continue despite an attacker clearly being offside."
But there's no link between the two, you could say it about every single decision the ref makes, or doesn't make.

"If they'd given a free kick there then the serious injury that happened 20 seconds afterwards wouldn't have happened"

"If a penalty had been given there rather than play on then the serious injury that happened the other end of the pitch that happened immediately afterwards wouldn't have happened"

etc

It's irrelevant. Offside decisions are not there to prevent injury. Awoniyi was not at greater risk of injury because she didn't flag offside, it was just an unfortunate accident, and yes if she had flagged offside it wouldn't have happened but you could say that "if" about anything