I’ve a bit of sympathy with the linesman truth be told. When they do as instructed and wait to raise their flags everyone gives them grief for it, so on this occasion he raises his flag when he (admittedly incorrectly) thought there was an offside and he still gets grief.Singing The Blues wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 11:20 amYou're quite right. It was bad officiating and play should have been allowed to continue. And Coutinho might still have scored. We will never know.kancutlawns wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 10:41 amThat’s not really the point though. Mitigating a shocking decision by saying the player wouldn’t have scored anyway gives said official a get out. Who’s to say that if the whistle hadn’t gone, Coutinho wouldn’t have tried to position the ball further away from Ederson and scored anyway? Sorry, StB, talking with my claret and blue specs on.Singing The Blues wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:41 am Wrong call but the City players all stopped once the flag was raised and the whistle went. So far from certain Coutinho would have scored.
There’s a lot of really shite refereeing goes on, but the lawmakers seem determined to make it all so fucking convoluted that it’s not a surprise when we see inconsistencies.
Still, at least the fat cunt Jon Moss has retired to eat pies all day.