Shola - Comments

The trick is to watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop first. Next to that Observe and Report feels like the Citizen Kane of mall security based films.

The trick is to watch Paul Blart: Mall Cop first. Next to that Observe and Report feels like the Citizen Kane of mall security based films.

You need to watch a lot more films then.

Newcastle are the stupid ones for allowing such a low buy out clause really.

I'd agree that he's had some success in previous jobs but considering his spells at his previous two clubs, which were both deemed to be failures, I find it surprising that a club with pretty lofty ambitions have gone in for him. He might have more success in the Championship but I think given his performance with Birmingham and Aston Villa, as well as his unimaginative and dour playing style, Forest fans have every right to be a tad pissed.

Observe and Report. Brilliant.

How can you say that and then spend the next part of this thread arguing about a law you've shown you don't understand?

Nah.

The law as it is allows the game to flow well, there's many times in moves when players are in offside positions but inactive in one phase but onside and active in the next. Reverting to a law like that would lead to at least double the stoppages for offisde, and that's a waste of everyones time.

Here's a little diagram on interpretation of the law, which indicates that Dean was incorrect.

The bit about Evans holding Ba or vica/versa is also a stupid debate, if Ba wasn't standing in a offside posistion Evans couldn't be holding him therefore his being in that posistion is clearly inferring with Evans.

From his excellent central position, referee Mike Dean saw Cisse had not touched the ball, which he must do to be considered to be ‘interfering with play’ as the law requires.
For the goal to have been disallowed for offside, the Newcastle striker would have had to be deemed to be interfering with an opponent. This is nothing to do with affecting his positioning or making him play the ball. In this case it would have been standing in the line of vision between keeper David de Gea and the ball as Simpson crossed it.

So, unless a player touches the ball he is not interfering with play. It’s that simple and whether referees or assistants agree with that definition is irrelevant, they have to apply the law. Moreover, whether you or managers or pundits like it, that is how FIFA insist the offside law is applied.

How can anyone not think Cisse is interfering with play?

Also, Newcastle fans booing the Ameobi/Cisse substitution and then going on to win was perfect after Shola saying booing negatively affects performances last week. He took his goal very well.

This is guessing from Tweets I saw from Newcastle fans at the match but by the looks of it the boos were for hooking Cisse rather than Shola's arrival, with the common view being that Demba Ba should have been hooked.

I'm not sure how accurate this is but there does seem to be a growing number of fans that think Ba is harming our chances as much as helping them.

I was talking more about the picture of Enrique sticking his finger up.

But yeah, it was a combination of all 3 things