Red Mosquito

Take that, poor African country!

BurtReynolds wrote:Take that, poor African country!

I am suspicious of how their fans could afford to travel to the game.

Bammer wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Take that, poor African country!

I am suspicious of how their fans could afford to travel to the game.

It's paid for if you swallow a kilo of heroin before u board the plane.

Bammer wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Take that, poor African country!

I am suspicious of how their fans could afford to travel to the game.

My 15 year old stepson asked me this during the game yesterday!

Can someone explain to me how offisides works in futbol and why this isn't?

You've gotta be at least even with the defense when the ball is struck; that gif doesn't start until the ball is already in the air.

This gif shows it better:

Simple Torture wrote:This gif shows it better:

Hard to judge offside from that angle though. I can't find one gif I saw that was perfectly aligned, so this slightly better one will have to do:

Heathen wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:This gif shows it better:

Hard to judge offside from that angle though. I can't find one gif I saw that was perfectly aligned, so this slightly better one will have to do:

From both of those, esp the 2nd one, it appears he's offsides, no?

To me, he looks even with the guy marking the fellow directly below him. He gains ground so quickly (and appears offsides) because that guy was turned the wrong way, so by the time he turns his whole body, the goalscorer (who was off at a dead run) is like 10 yards ahead. If he was offsides, it was like by a halfstep.

The first frame of this Youtube video explains what I mean:

From both of those, esp the 2nd one, it appears he's offsides, no?

hmm not at all

here's more or less the moment when the ball is sent forward:



The angle is not perfect so if it was close it would be hard to tell but here he's onside by quite a margin.

The linesman is right there, I assume if he felt he was offside he would have put up the flag.

Rule of thumb is if you don't hear tv commentators spend the rest of the game obsessing about whether he was or wasn't offside by half a testicle, then there was no offside.

Heathen wrote:

From both of those, esp the 2nd one, it appears he's offsides, no?

hmm not at all

here's more or less the moment when the ball is sent forward:



The angle is not perfect so if it was close it would be hard to tell but here he's onside by quite a margin.

Ahh i was looking at the guy defending him, not the guy on the other side of the field.

BurtReynolds wrote:Take that, poor African country!

Hey, they had our number, though!

Ochoa was a beast today.

I only saw the 2nd half, but yeah. Friggen Mexico, they dog it all qualifying and then waltz their way into the round of 16.

numbers wrote:I only saw the 2nd half, but yeah. Friggen Mexico, they dog it all qualifying and then waltz their way into the round of 16.

They won't make it far, anyway.