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She'd constantly be flicking between the last defender, and the player with the ball, to check if anyone's offside when the pass is made. She'd see Montaya running (obviously hoping to receive the ball) from her peripheral vision, so she knows that she's got to take a snapshot in her mind when...

The call wasn't on Locadia, it was on Montoya. It was happening quickly, but that's the whole point of having a linesman. They're well paid professionals, and they're at the game for those decisions. To be clear, I haven't suggested that it was a worse call than the penalty decision for Duffy...

No, I'm saying refs can't make the call, because they're not in the right position. The players can't, because they're not in the right position and they're busy trying to do their job (play football). The only person who should be in the right position to make that call is the linesman, and...

WTF has that got to do with anything? Their job is to play football, not run the line. Montoya wasn't impressed with the decision, but there's no point in complaining, it wasn't going to change anything.

It's not my job. I fully understand how fast it is, but that's the job. That's it, the whole job, and generally linesmen are really good at it. They're constantly clocking who is in an offside position, and runners, along with when the ball is played forward. Yesterday's decision wasn't a...

He's promised ten pounds to Matty Ryan, if he saved the penalty. No wonder Matty saved it.

He took his second goal well too. And his third.

Exactly. Yes Montoya was moving fast, but that's the ****ing job! That's it. Sure it would help if you also see the odd foul, so you can help the ref, but your one ****ing job is to make the offside calls. Stephens has the ball, he's shaping to pass - is anyone offside? No. Oh, he is now that's...

Yes you're right, it was extremely unusual for the commentator to call out the officials. But then it's also pretty unusual for officials to get that much wrong, all against the same team. However, that doesn't mean that the general commentary wasn't biased. And not because of some subtle...

Reading through the thread I see several posts suggesting Millwall were the better side. I completely disagree. Sure they put up a fight, so if you add in that we're a division above, you can say they did well for the underdogs. But that doesn't translate to them being the better side, they...

I agree it wasn't the worst decision of the day, and it was certainly close - the defence were fairly static with Montoya moving at pace. Linos do usually get those right though. For as long as I've criticised refs, I've always had admiration for the linos that get those decisions right. So much...

You could have saved us all a lot of heartache if you'd got the bint to help out earlier.

They cheated! If they had scored their first goal from a penalty, where they did a Zaha, everyone would be screaming that they cheated. Instead they did a pre-planned American Football tackle on Murray (I'd say rugby, but since Murray didn't have the ball, it'd be a foul in rugby). It's...

Well it's certainly good that he commiserated the Millwall players, but the reason he didn't run to celebrate is that he couldn't watch the penalty being taken, so when it went over, his teammates ran off to celebrate with Ryan, and he was left on his own.

Just wearing a brace isn't he?

Need Izzy and Andone. Otherwise we'll be stuck in our own half, with the only questions being how how long can we hold out for, and how many can we restrict them to.

Brighton deserved a penalty in the first half, and your first goal should have been ruled out for a clear cheater's foul. Not to mention the other goal we scored, which was incorrectly disallowed. So really, no, Millwall didn't deserve to win. Thank you. Must say I'm a bit pissed off about the...

Nice goal to win it for Brighton! Oh, incorrectly disallowed for offside :facepalm: That's two bad decisions giving them goals, a penalty for us not given, and now a perfectly good goal disallowed. VAR might not be perfect, but can someone point me to any game in the history of football where...

Oh yeah, that's absolutely fine. Clear penalty to us - nope, not given. Murray wiped out American Football style for their goal - yeah, that's fine. Handball for their second - yeah, that's fine too. I hope they get smashed in the semis, then relegated.

Thought the ref was the best on the pitch until the last 5 minutes, when he's completely let himself, and football down. How on earth has he given a free kick against us there?