Offside rule

[Billyni]

Watching the MOTD highlights of Arsenal : Bournemouth. No particular interest in the fortunes of either but more interested in the the Arsenal goal disallowed due to an offside "decision".

The Arsenal player who "scored" was offside frim the moment he had the ball played to him, everyone knew that, so why does it take for the player to put the ball in the net for the linesman to raise his flag?

Stupid, time wasting, illogical, what else could such a diabolically daft action be called?

Because linesmen and referees have become complacent, waiting on the decision from curropt var officials