Well I’ve got a Swedish NSC Poster conspiracy level theory about that… I think this late flag business is a word in the ear from VAR saying “stick your flag up, it looks offside” then doing the forensic examination afterwards.
It’s better to award a goal that was ruled out than to disallow one...
It is contentious in the sense that yes, it was the correct application of the laws (albeit a subjective one about Armstrong’s leg movement), but it is one which is very rarely applied, in real time or retroactively.
There will be hundreds of such incidents in goals across the Football League...
a point gained given the way the match went and how off the boil we were, two points lost given that was our worst performance of the season and we just didn’t turn up, and if we had we would’ve won comfortably