Linesman's position

To be fair if you didn't see it you cant give it. On the other hand like Souness eluded too, the linesman should have tried his hardest not to let Willian block his view. Very poor by the linesman and VAR may just come to late for us.

To be fair if you didn't see it you cant give it. On the other hand like Souness eluded too, the linesman should have tried his hardest not to let Willian block his view. Very poor by the linesman and VAR may just come to late for us.

Thats what i eluded to in another post? Both clearly offside but lino couldn't see them for reasons explained! If lino did manage to get into proper position he would see player onside as he headed to goal so in his mind nothing wrong with goal as he ran straight to halfway line.

As Souness also said he follows Willian skipping up the line .why do that when staying put gives you a clear view ?

As Souness also said he follows Willian skipping up the line .why do that when staying put gives you a clear view ?

Spot On .

In all fairness it was so blatent the referee should be giving it without the linesman help

It's a joke of a decision and there is no excuse for it

In all fairness it was so blatent the referee should be giving it without the linesman help

It's a joke of a decision and there is no excuse for it

No excuse just the rationale for why it was not given! Lino should be sacked for being stupid getting himself into that position.

In all fairness it was so blatent the referee should be giving it without the linesman help

It's a joke of a decision and there is no excuse for it

No excuse just the rationale for why it was not given! Lino should be sacked for being stupid getting himself into that position.

Totally agree. He can't be working again this season. Remedial training and eye tests for him.

I don't buy this Willian positioning thing otherwise we'd have come across it before. The linesman is always moving out with the line as is the corner taker most of the time. If there was the remotest possibility of this happening it would have been a tactic by now. We'd have Sol Bamber taking corners and Chelsea would' have someone bigger than Willian taking theirs. Its just a dreadful lack of concentration on the part of the linesman. They almost never get the stationary ones wrong. Not the job for the referee, If the linesman looking across the line doesn't give it, then the referee is very unlikely to.

I don't buy this Willian positioning thing otherwise we'd have come across it before. The linesman is always moving out with the line as is the corner taker most of the time. If there was the remotest possibility of this happening it would have been a tactic by now. We'd have Sol Bamber taking corners and Chelsea would' have someone bigger than Willian taking theirs. Its just a dreadful lack of concentration on the part of the linesman. They almost never get the stationary ones wrong. Not the job for the referee, If the linesman looking across the line doesn't give it, then the referee is very unlikely to.

No your miss interpreting what's said? Willian didnt deliberately block linesman ! the linesman moved the same way as willian so staying behind him and resulting in his view being blocked, linesman should simply stayed where he was and that would have meant seen the offside.. hence didn't see the offside according to him

I don't buy this Willian positioning thing otherwise we'd have come across it before. The linesman is always moving out with the line as is the corner taker most of the time. If there was the remotest possibility of this happening it would have been a tactic by now. We'd have Sol Bamber taking corners and Chelsea would' have someone bigger than Willian taking theirs. Its just a dreadful lack of concentration on the part of the linesman. They almost never get the stationary ones wrong. Not the job for the referee, If the linesman looking across the line doesn't give it, then the referee is very unlikely to.

No your miss interpreting what's said? Willian didnt deliberately block linesman ! the linesman moved the same way as willian so staying behind him and resulting in his view being blocked, linesman should simply stayed where he was and that would have meant seen the offside.. hence didn't see the offside according to him

I didn't mean to infer that he'd done it deliberately. Its just that the player taking the corner and referee are pretty frequently going to be on the same line. The corner taker runs back to stay on side and the linesman runs back to keep in line. So given the fact that their very frequently on the same line, why has this, to my knowledge never been an issue before.

The linesman has to maintain the line as best as he can or its almost impossible to judge the tight ones. We're normally talking about 6 inches and not 6 feet as in this case.

Its just a shocking lineman error.

I don't buy this Willian positioning thing otherwise we'd have come across it before. The linesman is always moving out with the line as is the corner taker most of the time. If there was the remotest possibility of this happening it would have been a tactic by now. We'd have Sol Bamber taking corners and Chelsea would' have someone bigger than Willian taking theirs. Its just a dreadful lack of concentration on the part of the linesman. They almost never get the stationary ones wrong. Not the job for the referee, If the linesman looking across the line doesn't give it, then the referee is very unlikely to.

No your miss interpreting what's said? Willian didnt deliberately block linesman ! the linesman moved the same way as willian so staying behind him and resulting in his view being blocked, linesman should simply stayed where he was and that would have meant seen the offside.. hence didn't see the offside according to him

I didn't mean to infer that he'd done it deliberately. Its just that the player taking the corner and referee are pretty frequently going to be on the same line. The corner taker runs back to stay on side and the linesman runs back to keep in line. So given the fact that their very frequently on the same line, why has this, to my knowledge never been an issue before.

The linesman has to maintain the line as best as he can or its almost impossible to judge the tight ones. We're normally talking about 6 inches and not 6 feet as in this case.

Its just a shocking lineman error.

Yes a massive error the fact remains he should not have moved with willian his job was to look across the pen area he failed even remotely to do that and it was totally avoidable in fact easy to avoid! Simple question is why the fck did he do it??

Linesman should be in line with the last man,so therefore no excuse because the was two to pick from,

Linesman should be in line with the last man,so therefore no excuse because the was two to pick from,

Spot on,he should be in line with last defender,how else is he meant to see ANY player/s drift into an offside position? Really poor officiating from him And seeing Ramsey goal chalked off,for a so called foul in the area wish we had that ref we would have had two penalties at least, and rudiger would have been off,stroll on var I say,even though I was against it initially