Clarke's Goal (1 Viewer)

[Scooby Blue]

TAmazing comeback last night & a great result! Even walking out the ground last night I heard loads of people taking phone calls and telling mates that 'Clarke was offside apparently'. Having watched the highlights three times already since last night I honestly don't think Clarke was offside. What do other people think? It's a shame Sky went down the route of saying he was off cos I think its taken credit away from what the players achieved last night.

 

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[Mucca Mad Boys]

The 2 around him were 100% offside, I'm not sure about Leon though, I only seen the slightly blurred view on the scoreboard.

 

[skyblueref]

Think he may of been,it was tight, but who cares we won!

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

Think he may of been,it was tight, but who cares we won!

When it went in, I jumped up straight away, but stopped just before I celebrated to look over to the linesman, seen the flag was kept down, went berserk! Never been so relieved when watching CCFC!

 

[kg82]

I think he was, but very very marginally. Makes up for Edge's being given offside when he wasn't though and as sbr says, who cares, we won (or was he asking who cares we won, in which case the answer is all of us!!)

 

[skyblueref]

I think he was, but very very marginally. Makes up for Edge's being given offside when he wasn't though and as sbr says, who cares, we won (or was he asking who cares we won, in which case the answer is all of us!!)

Who care, we won

 

[Yorkshire SB]

Yeah I agree, I think I would be more inclined to call him level there, than offside.

 

[+ameatpie&dafillinfellout]

I think it's about time the powers that be sorted the off side rule out once and for all.
it's an easy one for me,If there is daylight between last defender and the attacking player it's off side none of this he was level bollox or his arm or nipple was in an off side position.
for me he was on side and so was edg.
PUSB

 

[Scooby Blue]

I thought there had to be 'daylight' (or is that an old rule now? I know we don't care but it'd be nice to get recognition from elsewhere rather then 'the winner was offside'. Implies we were lucky and as I said, takes credit away from the players.

 

[+ameatpie&dafillinfellout]

I thought there had to be 'daylight' (or is that an old rule now? I know we don't care but it'd be nice to get recognition from elsewhere rather then 'the winner was offside'. Implies we were lucky and as I said, takes credit away from the players.

I don't know Scooby Blue, i don't think anyone can be sure?
thats why we see so much debate on sky and MOTD reference off side decisions, i suppose it keeps the pundits in a job.

 

[Astute]

He was standing in an onside position. His feet were behind where the feet were of the last defender.......but he was leaning forward, so his upper body was slightly past the last defender.

So to cut it short he was standing in an onside position but could have been given offside

 

[ampthill_sba]

Onside, only Wood on the left side was off... Clark was level, his arm might be offside so I doesn't count, feet onside!

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

I only seen the replay once, his arm looked off side but that is not offside. The rest of his body looked level but I would have to see it again to be sure

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Make up your own mind, I'm gonna say his body is level apart from his left arm which doesn't matter in the offside law

 

[Sawyer]

He looked level to me from what I have seen, that's football though and its how the cookie crumbles. Sometimes you get the rub, sometimes you dont.

 

[Astute]

Body still looks a bit past to me, but as I say his feet are well behind.

 

[+ameatpie&dafillinfellout]

The PNE fans clearly believe he was off side, and that L Clarke was having a piggy back for our 2nd and they had a couple of clear cut penalties.
owe and sky are bias wkrs

http://www.pne-online.net/forum/showthread.php?78338-What-cost-us

we have our sky blue tinted glasses and they have there lilly white ones.

PUSB

 

[torchomatic]

I don't think we should have won. We should replay the match as I'm worried about our reputation in the wider football community as morally we cheated the Preston players and fans out of a penalty shoot-out. I'm embarrassed to be a City fan at the moment.

 

[sw88]

I thought all 3 were off at the time of it going in. But since seeing it on TV I think the lino made the right call! Officials get criticised too much for making decisions when it looks virtually impossible for them to be 100% what they're going to decide is right and as we had three players in almost a line it would have been a difficult call to make
Still think it would have been interesting had Woody put it away as he was in a more obvious offside position

 

[skybluebolland]

The official rule- Offside when any part of the body that you can legally play the ball with, I.e. shoulder, is past the second-last defender, and that includes the goalkeeper. Replays seem to suggest that his shoulder was marginally in from of the last outfield defender, but we had a goal disallowed when I don't think we should half through the second half.

Source: I'm a ref!

 

[skybluebolland]

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Make up your own mind, I'm gonna say his body is level apart from his left arm which doesn't matter in the offside law

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His left shoulder is just past but they're not given often!!!!!

 

[sw88]

Source: I'm a ref!

The referees a.............

 

[pw362]

Who cares,ref gave it and we are 2 games from Wembley

 

[WeWillBeBack]

I thought if it's this close then the advantage it supposed to be given to the attacker anyway?!

 

[CCFC Germany]

It was clearly offside, but who cares as it happens 50 time a football season...