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       #Post#: 88407--------------------------------------------------
       Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: Marvin Grapevine
       Date: February 15, 2025, 4:02 am
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       I thought Kavanagh had a pretty solid game overall, but
       interested in opinions on the second goal. It's another of those
       "deliberate play" situations.
       The cross comes in and even though the lines weren't drawn
       Welbeck seems to be offside. He's a yard or two behind the
       defender, who knows he is there and stretches to try and cut the
       ball out from reaching him for a tap in. Dale Johnson has said
       this was, according to PGMOL, a "deliberate play" but I can not
       agree with that interpretation.
       The defender is stretching and impacted by the offside player
       behind him. He can't let it go and take the chance on the
       offside, he has to try and cut it out at full stretch and only
       gets a toe on it. Does this not mean the offside player is
       impacting the opponent?
       The offside player then gets the ball following the attempted
       interception and sets up the scorer.
       Interested in other opinions on this. It's one which I feel
       should be offside, but I don't have forensic enough knowledge of
       the laws of the game to know if the decision was correct or not!
       #Post#: 88408--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: bmb
       Date: February 15, 2025, 4:47 am
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       I think the fact that 2 Chelsea players touched it before
       Wellbeck is enough to have reset the phase of play.
       #Post#: 88409--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: TheThingFromLewes
       Date: February 15, 2025, 4:50 am
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       Decent stuff from Kavanagh last night, nothing really to cause
       any issue with the performance.
       Caicedo’s yellow was correct for his lunge on Mitoma.
       #Post#: 88410--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: Marvin Grapevine
       Date: February 15, 2025, 5:25 am
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       --- Quote from: bmb link ---
       >
       > I think the fact that 2 Chelsea players touched it before
       Wellbeck is enough to have reset the phase of play.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       The question I am asking is more that given Welbeck's
       positioning has caused the defender to lunge to attempt to cut
       out the cross, surely this is impacting the defender due to his
       offside position (caveat on all of this, we haven't seen the
       lines so he might actually not be offside!).
       To me it's one that should be offside as the player is impacting
       on the defender, and then has benefitted from his original
       offside position.
       #Post#: 88411--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: Charlieboy
       Date: February 15, 2025, 6:33 am
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       Our number one referee at the moment imo consistently puts in
       high accuracy performances.
       #Post#: 88413--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: TA_Ref
       Date: February 15, 2025, 6:56 am
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       --- Quote from: Charlieboy link ---
       >
       > Our number one referee at the moment imo consistently puts in
       high accuracy performances.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       With the greatest respect of your thought, the best referee in
       England at the moment, imo, is the one you witnessed last Sunday
       against Liverpool.
       Although I’d agree it’s very close between Barrott, Kavanagh and
       Brooks
       #Post#: 88440--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: bmb
       Date: February 15, 2025, 2:22 pm
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       --- Quote from: Marvin Grapevine link ---
       >
       > [quote author=bmb link=topic=6705.msg88408#msg88408
       date=1739616452]
       > I think the fact that 2 Chelsea players touched it before
       Wellbeck is enough to have reset the phase of play.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       The question I am asking is more that given Welbeck's
       positioning has caused the defender to lunge to attempt to cut
       out the cross, surely this is impacting the defender due to his
       offside position (caveat on all of this, we haven't seen the
       lines so he might actually not be offside!).
       To me it's one that should be offside as the player is impacting
       on the defender, and then has benefitted from his original
       offside position.
       [/quote]
       That's one of the issues - if the ref/AR decide it's a
       deliberate play then that stops us getting to see the lines.
       Would be interesting to see them anyway though just to clear up
       what ifs
       #Post#: 88457--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: Claretman
       Date: February 15, 2025, 3:57 pm
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       --- Quote from: bmb link ---
       >
       > [quote author=Marvin Grapevine
       link=topic=6705.msg88410#msg88410 date=1739618710]
       > [quote author=bmb link=topic=6705.msg88408#msg88408
       date=1739616452]
       > I think the fact that 2 Chelsea players touched it before
       Wellbeck is enough to have reset the phase of play.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       The question I am asking is more that given Welbeck's
       positioning has caused the defender to lunge to attempt to cut
       out the cross, surely this is impacting the defender due to his
       offside position (caveat on all of this, we haven't seen the
       lines so he might actually not be offside!).
       To me it's one that should be offside as the player is impacting
       on the defender, and then has benefitted from his original
       offside position.
       [/quote]
       That's one of the issues - if the ref/AR decide it's a
       deliberate play then that stops us getting to see the lines.
       Would be interesting to see them anyway though just to clear up
       what ifs
       [/quote]
       The battery on the etch a sketch machine had probably run out of
       charge
       #Post#: 88504--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: Seagull
       Date: February 16, 2025, 9:04 am
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       Although Danny Welbeck may have been marginally in front of the
       second last defender, my view from TV was that he was behind the
       ball, so was not offside under any circumstance.
       #Post#: 88514--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Chris Kavanagh - Brighton v Chelsea 
   DIR By: Marvin Grapevine
       Date: February 16, 2025, 11:17 am
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       --- Quote from: Seagull link ---
       >
       > Although Danny Welbeck may have been marginally in front of
       the second last defender, my view from TV was that he was behind
       the ball, so was not offside under any circumstance.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       It would be useful to know as it could be a moot point, but I'm
       more interested as to whether Welbeck would be deemed to be
       interfering or not if he was offside.
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