mrb85
Player Valuation: £35m
This morning on Sky's Sunday Supplement witnessed the most embarassing comment by a so-called football expert I've ever heard. It came from a journalist (Neil Custis I think) who said how we can expect the linesman to have got the offside call right when it was so close (what, 3 foot???) and the game is so fast!!!! Well, in that case lets scrap linesmen altogether. Doesn't a linesmen in these circumstances essentially have only one thing to focus on? He's paid to be on line with the play and his sole task then is to keep looking across the line to determine an offside or onside decision.
One other thing, why are officials wired up? It's being suggested that the linesman thought it was Jagielka who headed the ball to Terry. If that was his thinking then what were the refs thoughts? Did he also not see that it was a Chelsea player? If he had then surely he should have been consulting with his linesman to ask why he hadn't disallowed the goal. If the reply was that he thought Jagielka had last played the ball then the ref would have presumably overruled the linesman and disallowed the goal.
One other thing, why are officials wired up? It's being suggested that the linesman thought it was Jagielka who headed the ball to Terry. If that was his thinking then what were the refs thoughts? Did he also not see that it was a Chelsea player? If he had then surely he should have been consulting with his linesman to ask why he hadn't disallowed the goal. If the reply was that he thought Jagielka had last played the ball then the ref would have presumably overruled the linesman and disallowed the goal.
