[Sassy Colin]

Davis should be off, clear yellow

 

[Pyroblazer]

Dowd is so awful tonight.

 

[Havak]

Can't believe he didn't send the cnut off. I can just see Rojo sliding in later and getting sent off.

 

[Silva]

Should have been off there.

 

[JakeC]

How is that not a yellow?

 

[Woodzy]

One of the biggest bottle jobs I've ever seen there.

 

[Ivor Ballokov]

feck off dowd you cretin. Blatant second yellow.

 

[tob]

Phil Dowd you coward.

 

[ants7]

please win this. just to feck off the ref and the commentators.

 

[Chorley1974]

dowd you clown it's a second yellow you fecking dick

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

Amazes me that so many refs at this level don't know that a potential second yellow should not take a first yellow into account

 

[Raptori]

How can you say Young changed the game? He wasn't involved in the goal. It was Falcao coming off and the change in formation which brought the goal.

Maybe because Young passed to Herrera for the goal... ?

 

[rpitchfo]

PNE are knackered now. Should get a couple more in the last 15 minutes. Doesn't excuse the first 70 minutes though.

 

[MajorTom]

How did Keown become a commentator?

I just think of beetlejuice or that guy from men in black with massive fecking bugs spawning from his mouth every time he talks. He is a right mess.

 

[untitled_6899]

You watch the BBC won't bring up the lack of the second yellow card for Davies

 

[rcoobc]

No he wasn't.

We have this:

RE: Select Under 11

MIKE SLATTERY OF COLUMBUS , OH USA ASKS...
Question about how to call being active in an offside position. Offensive player A brings ball into area on near side, say, and goalie shifts to cover his near post. Offensive player B (in clear offside position) is within 6 yard box at far post, certainly wishing to be in goalie's peripheral vision, if not face, but not active per se. But player B does distract the goalie doesn't he? And may even drastically alter how the goalie deals with advance of player A. I've heard that the ref must rely on facts, as it were, and that might mean disregarding player B because of perceived inactivity.

So my question is, at what point (if ever?) does player B (being at goalie's hip at far post) constitute enough 'activity' (read: distraction) to force an offside call? Without, of course, being passed the ball.

thanks!

ANSWER PROVIDED BY REFEREE DENNIS WICKHAM
'Active' and 'passive' can be misleading terms.

FIFA defines three ways that a player in offside position infringes law 11: interfering with play: which means touching the ball; interfering with an opponent: which means hindering an opponent's ability to see or play the ball; and gaining an advantage: which touching the ballafter it deflects off an opponent or rebounds off the goal.

Simply being in an offside position is not enough. Keepers are trained to focus on the ball, and being within their peripheral vision is not enough. It does not hinder their ability to see or play the ball.

The player is offside position must do something: this includes movement or gestures that the referee observes has an effect on the keeper. Moreover, the closer the player is to the opponent, the more likely the referee will judge anything the player does has hindered the opponent's ability to see or play the ball. But offside position alone is not enough.

http://asktheref.com/Soccer Rules/Question/23340/

Anyway goallll

 

[Danny1982]

Definitely not a second yellow at all...

Agree. I think he should have his first yellow rescinded for that.

 

[Señor]

Fellaini!!!

 

[RonaldoVII]

Fellainiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

 

[ha_rooney]

Fellaini!!!!

 

[Mystry]

YESSSSSSS AFro goal.

 

[Hed Zitin]

Yes Felli!!!!

Good ball from Valencia! Good as a goal .

 

[Will Singh]

Refs a disgrace

 

[Cassidy]

YYEEESSSS!!!!

 

[Irrational.]

Get in Fellaini!

 

[Roman Bellic]

BIG FELLAINI!!!!

 

[villain]

Felllainniiiii !!!

 

[U99ted]

Marouane!!!

 

[Ballache]

Fellaini

 

[LARulz]

Big man Fellani.

Contract for life

 

[sizzling sausages]

Fellaini

 

[Red Pavan]

I think we are playing a 433 now

Fellaini!!

 

[Trizy]

YES YOU FCUKING SUPERMOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dylan94]

THE LEGEND RETURNS!

 

[2 Neville's]

Have it you cnuts

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

SCREEEEEEEEECH!!!!

 

[Massive Spanner]

Thank feck.

 

[Chorley1974]

get in the big clown

 

[Silverman]

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!

 

[Acole9]

GET IN!!! COME ON!!!

 

[Bojan11]

Fellaini!

 

[Amethyst]

Then the keeper is an idiot, because Rooney wasn't even close to being in his line of sight.

Yeah seen it again, think you're right.

 

[Verminator]

Ha!

 

[2 man midfield]

Get the feck in

 

[Heardy]

Gwan fellaini