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Posted September 21, 2008 02:19 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:18

I thought I'd visit the Liverpool thread to ask a question that has me stumped. I watched most of the Liverpool - Stoke game and saw some of the post-match interview. Everyone seems to be complaining about the disallowed goal. Benitez can't understand it. Francis thinks it's been disallowed because of Kuyt's run to the far post.
 
Kuyt has nothing to do with it. As I type, I have the action paused at the exact moment that Gerrard strikes the free kick and the view is across the pitch - the only shame is that the linesman is not visible to see when he flags. Kuyt is well onside, but there is definitely one, possibly two, Liverpool players in the middle who are offside when the kick is taken. I can't make out who the players are, but the one who is definitely off is Torres. He tries to head the ball - he misses it but is a few yards in front of the keeper who is clearly influenced by the head attempt without which he may or may not have been able to get to Gerrard's free kick.
 
What I don't understand is Francis going on about Kuyt all game as being incorrectly called offside or Rafa talking about the Ref being in a bad position in the interview, when it is a correct text-book offside, albeit one that required replay to see so the linesman did amazingly well.
 
Thoughts?

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I thought I'd visit the Liverpool thread to ask a question that has me stumped. I watched most of the Liverpool - Stoke game and saw some of the post-match interview. Everyone seems to be complaining about the disallowed goal. Benitez can't understand it. Francis thinks it's been disallowed because of Kuyt's run to the far post.

 
Kuyt has nothing to do with it. As I type, I have the action paused at the exact moment that Gerrard strikes the free kick and the view is across the pitch - the only shame is that the linesman is not visible to see when he flags. Kuyt is well onside, but there is definitely one, possibly two, Liverpool players in the middle who are offside when the kick is taken. I can't make out who the players are, but the one who is definitely off is Torres. He tries to head the ball - he misses it but is a few yards in front of the keeper who is clearly influenced by the head attempt without which he may or may not have been able to get to Gerrard's free kick.
 
What I don't understand is Francis going on about Kuyt all game as being incorrectly called offside or Rafa talking about the Ref being in a bad position in the interview, when it is a correct text-book offside, albeit one that required replay to see so the linesman did amazingly well.
 
Thoughts?