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Ultimately, the fact that Russell Martin and Southampton are so pissed off about this is making a draw much easier to bear. At least it's amusing.

I can understand why ordinarily they would check in that order. However, if a player is clearly miles offside and could be involved, then it makes sense to look at that first. If he’s attempted to play the ball, job done. Perhaps they’ll tweak their procedures. After all, they’re still...

Nice of Bart, but if Armstrong wasn't there, he'd have barely needed to cover that side of the goal at all. Plus we'd have had a spare defender to help stop a cross to what would have been their only player in the box.

Totally agree. Though in the current climate of pedantic idiocy, we'd then wait 5 minutes while they checked whether a player was outside the box or one of his toes had crept a centimetre on to the line.

VAR terrible. The offside law worse. Armstrong has made a near post run to attack the ball, occupying a central defender and forcing the goalkeeper to take him into account. He’s visibly miles offside from the outset. Yet under the modern law, that’s fine unless he flicks his foot at it...