Laley23;386615 wrote:Holy shit someone needs to tell Martin Tyler and Efan Ekoku the damn rules of soccer. The offside rule states the SECOND TO LAST DEFENDER. The keeper clearly came up past Vela and the glancing header turned into a pass. The keeper was no longer the last defender he was the second to last defender and the man on the post was the last. Vela was only behind ONE of them, thus offside. Terrific call from the linesman, simply terrific. Not many linesmen would notice something like that.
Now, someone please tell ESPN so they stop bitching about the bad call because it was the correct one and SA wouldve been screwed if they allowed the goal.
Exactly. Thank you. I was screaming at them for that, and I was just going to post that. The guy ESPN has commentating it on my phone knew the rule, so that was good, but I was dumbfounded about the idiocy of them.
As a goalkeeper in games that don't mean much, but they still call offsides, I used that rule to my advantage. Very few people know it's the second to last defender, so it's always fun.
