It can’t be denied that Bobby Zamora was offside for the Jonathan Greening goal last night. Some will argue that Zamora didn’t touch the ball, which he didn’t. However, he effected the play by bringing Steve Finnan out of the gane for that single second that gave space for Greening to cooly slide the ball home for his first goal in a Fulham shirt.
But who cares?
Fulham have had a horrible set of misfortunes in terms of injuries and annoying little instances in matches that have greatly cost us. Yes, some of our preformances have been woeful but very few. In most of matches where we have lost we can argue that we have been unlucky. I said to my brother the other day that what Fulham needed was just a little bit of fortune like getting a penalty, a deflected goal or, as it happened last night- a dodgy decision that went our way. That goal could have easily have been ruled out on any other night.
But now that we have had our little piece of fortune, the performances should improve because the lads should have a bit of confidence back. Lets hope we have a strong performance on Saturday now!
I actually think any offside is marginal against Zamora in the middle. If you watch it again, it’s very difficult to tell whether Duff’s cross is heading in a forward direction – it bounces off a defender almost immediately. If it isn’t then Zamora can’t be offside. Whilst that decision went our way Pompey could – and perhaps should have – scored very early when the assistant inexplicably kept his flag down.
It’s all about building on this result now.
It wasn’t off side. The player for Pompey was on the floor and before that the zonal interference was unlikely to… In the good old days you were or you were not off side. It didn’t have to go to the opinion of a set of people who seem as confused as we are. If they missed the Pompey off side in the first half then it would have been harsh to say the least to call BZ off. The more you look at it the less it looks offside. But I do wish they would return the rule as it was.
I think under the current law he’s not offside because a) he didn’t touch the ball, it came of the defender and b) the pass was played backwards.
Of course I have no idea if I’m right because the current rule is completely impossible to understand unless you’ve spent 5 years studying a post graduate degree on what does and what doesn’t constitute offside.
I say bring the old law back, at least we all knew where we stood and could enjoy hours attempting to explain to our girlfriend’s/other halves exactly how it worked.