by Liviforever Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:35 pm
Watched the VARdict review program with Richard Foster and ex ref Stuart Dougal, and the Shinnie offside gets looked at, and it is all down to the lino getting it 'right' flagging offside that the goal is disallowed, if the lino hadn't flagged it, the goal would've stood and VAR wouldn't have got involved*. No danger the lino sees that as offside when the ball was played through, he's got lucky that VAR backs him up with the camera angled red line being about 2 inches offside.
Imo it was too close a call for him to have seen it properly and he's looked up a second or so later seeing Shinnie running through onto the ball and just took a guess at it. Don't think the red line is 100% accurate either because it's still down to the camera angle and if the camera is square with play, we don't have that many cameras in the SPFL Premiership games to get these things that accurate when it's so marginal, and it should be what it was before when these tight calls were given the benefit of doubt to the attacking player. Course pre VAR the linos got worse decisions than that wrong too, Kylie getting Keaghan's goal chopped off when he was well onside for example.
Anyway not convinced this was offside and i think the lino wasn't looking when the ball was played or he wouldn't have been confident enough of his decision to flag it.
*which begs the question why did it get involved for Pittman's red card when the ref had seen it and not given a red card, seems they make the rules up to suit whatever controversial incident they get involved with.