Offsides?

Schalke_FY4

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Jerry Yates one on one?

Their goal?

Difficult to see as barely any replays on iFollow but I'd love to see both again!
 
Can't tell for theirs as it was a long ball so the camera was still sweeping round.

Their shot took a deflection off Gabriel as he slid in otherwise Maxwell would probably have gathered that.
 
Must admit that I thought their goal was off-side as I saw it.
The replays didn't prove one way or the other.
 
If you look at their goal again, you can see the sub liner miles behind play trying to catch up - so would/could not flag!1 Unlucky for us, but I think Crewe deserved their goal. Also, if the liner had been up with play he would have seen the arm control of the Crewe forward!!
 
🙄 consider where the lino would have been at the moment the Crewe player passed the ball forward. He would have been level with the last Blackpool defender.

a difficulty for any lino is that they can’t look along the back line and look to see the moment that a player plays a long ball forward, when the ball is played from the ‘near side’ of the pitch, at exactly the same time. In an empty stadium they can usually ‘hear’ the point of contact as they look along the line of offside

If he has determined that the player was onside at the point that the ball was played, his next action is to follow play towards the goal-line to be in the best position possible to judge what happens next.

you say that the Lino was ‘miles behind play’ but so were the blackpool defenders, because the Crewe player had timed his run to perfection and by his forward momentum had given himself a head start on the defenders (and the Lino)

as for the claim of handball, the linesman was no more than a few yards from the action looking straight at the attacker as he controlled the ball. you were ‘sitting’ behind the camera position on the far side of the pitch, even further behind play, calling handball on a player who had his back to you. You also support Blackpool.

Despite all of this, you may be right and the lino may have been wrong tho’ I seriously doubt it
 
The Crewe striker didn't look rapid, and was 3 or 4 yards in front when he got the ball. Looked on sky sports highlights and paused and lino is level with back 4.
But also didn't see or hear too many complaints from the players or manager.
 
I think it was the Yates 1-on-1 that was most likely incorrect. For theirs it is impossible to say from the angle of the iFollow camera footage I've seen.
 
If you read @seanjmcginlay piece he posted on here I think (it's on twitter) it looks like Thorniley plays him onside. Ballard has pushed up in line with Gabriel but Thorniley has dropped deeper from the screen shot he uses.
 
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