Quote Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill View Post
I think the original Clough comment was "If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid."

As for the fiasco now it makes me laugh.

The offside rule (original one) was always part of the joke “ try explaining the offside rule to a woman”

It was even then open to debate because folks either understood it or didn’t, so what did the authorities do? They made it even more complicated so even the referees don’t understand it.

As for my view ref Fernandes. - offside for Rashford and game should have been stopped

But what do I know ?
Exactly. The men in suits and VAR have contrived to make it unintelligible. I don't think anyone really understands it anymore including the officials and PGMOL or whatever they're called.
I heard Micah Richards and Shay Given talking about the Fernandes goal, obviously from a defender's and goalkeeper's perspective.
Richards said when you know your opponent is clearly offside you let him go because the linesman will flag.The City defender let Rashford go for that reason.......but the linesman didn't flag.
Given said sweeper keepers are part of the modern game and they naturally move towards a player who is approaching the ball. That's what the City goalkeeper did but then Fernandes nipped in from a different angle.
Rashford was definitely interfering with play and drew the goalkeeper towards him.
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of it I'm still glad United beat City 🙂