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I'd say about 12 yards out from the goalline, but quite wide on an angle so maybe 18-20 yards in total.

Yes, it would change everything. Brentford would just resort to time wasting and delaying tactics at every opportunity instead of . . . Oh hold on .

I agree, but that simple thinking is beyond the "brains" that run the game.

I think the 10-yard thing in football was rescinded because defending teams were actually able to use it to their advantage. If a free kick was awarded in a dangerous position, say 25 yards out, the defenders would deliberatley get it moved 10 yards forwards, so that it would be impossible to...

Neto was technically in an offside position when Cunha shot. He was approx 1 foot from the bhline having pulled the ball back, and no defender (not even the keeper I don't think) was goal side of him. Under Bods suggestion we would ignore the fact that he was clearly not interfering with play...

Indeed, that was the case. I was referring to Bods suggestion that basically offside is offside, irrespective of interfering with play.

As an example, under Bod's suggestion our 3rd goal on Sunday is disallowed because Neto is in an offside position after pulling the ball back to Cunha.

I don't think they do these days. Dr Who was 2nd highest figures for Christmas week with about 7.5m. The soaps are probably 5-5.5m.

28th October, so just over a month ago. Bit impatient aren't you :D

No, you're thinking of Fabio (Long John) Silva ;)

Depends on whether your office boy is good looking

You're lucky. My toaster just repeatedly says "would you like a toasted teacake?"

Whooosh.

Wasn't that 2 of the characters created by Hale and Pace ?

Sad that I'm old enough to understand that

If they're always going to caution the third man, Harry Lime is going to get a few yellow cards.

Absolutely no argument from me on this. I can't remember, but I suspect it was enforced in the immediate aftermath and then forgotten about like a number of things over the years (Anyone remember the last time a free kick was given against a goalkeeper for holding onto the ball more than 6...

Wasted most of the morning looking for this, because I knew I could remember it. This is the Premier League article from 2016 (!). I'm guessing that Gillet being relatively new had just been checking the old directives, and thought he'd show Howard Webb how much he'd looked them up, and then...

Well, obviously they've all been paid off to say that, haven't they ? ;)

I think it was banned as a result of Covid, and the ban has now been made permanent. They generally use sweat now, which is apparently less likely to pass on germs.