[quote=“Il Bomber Destro, post: 757544, member: 1052”]You are some buffoon, Juventus have a huge fanbase in the South of Italy.
PSG have only themselves to blame, they had so many openings tonight that they didn’t capitalise on. Motta, Verratti and Ibra were outstanding. Motta lorded it over Busquets tonight.[/quote]
You’ve been whoring yourself to the north of Italy the last couple of weeks and praising their northern mentality. You disgust me.
Bill O’Herlihy is utterly clueless. Time to cut him, RTE.
Brian O Driscoll
I do like the way RTÉ don’t go straight to a break afterwards. Good way to keep their viewers.
Henry Shefflin twice more and another mention for O’Driscoll.
Chippy Brady cleaning house.
Christy Ring
FOAD Jamie Redknapp. :rolleyes:
Christy Ring. And now Shefflin again. Fucking hell. And Giles not convinced Messi is the best player in the world. There are defenders who are just as good but he can’t think of them just now.
They don’t have the same aura and presence about them. Mascherano missing meant they only had a makeshift back 4 in place.
He the best attacking player in the world. But there are also great defenders - I can’t think of any at the moment.
You’d know all about whoring yourself, you prick. You know so little about my country, my people and my city yet you feel the need to comment, you don’t understand us and never will.
Do whores not have the same core mentality in all Countries?
A wonderful night for football. Italians gone, big nose Zlatan gone. Messi and Ronaldo, the worlds greatest footballers by a distance, still there… FC Hollywood are looking the team to beat tho.
Spanish and German semi finals would be fantastic.
Further proof that the German and Spanish leagues are the strongest in the world right now.
My dream final of Dortmund v Munich will hopefully come to pass.
The krauts may finally get to march on London 
Chewy can I have a ruling please? I know Santana was offside but can he be played on by the keeper’s hand which was almost level with him? I know an attacking player is offside by a part of the body he can score with but is it with reference to all of a defender or just the equivalent body parts? It doesn’t apply last night but I’d like to know for future reference.
I’m with Sid,I reckon Dortmund’s name is on the cup. As I posted before, they are very alright sorts.
Rocko,
As far as I am aware the ruling is that if any part of an attackers body that he can play the ball with is ahead of the last defender* then he is offside. The reverse would also be true, if any part of a defender which he can play the ball with is behind an attacker then this plays the attacker onside. The ruling is quite clear here as it does not specify hands, meaning that it takes into account what you have described above. If a defender is behind the keeper and the keeper is the last defender* in question then if his hand/arm is behind the attacker then he is onside.
*technically not the last defender but second last but is normally referred to as the last man
Santana was onside for that part of the goal.
The guy who headed the ball from the initial cross was offside and should’ve been flagged.
[quote=“chewy louie, post: 757598, member: 1137”]Rocko,
As far as I am aware the ruling is that if any part of an attackers body that he can play the ball with is ahead of the last defender* then he is offside. The reverse would also be true, if any part of a defender which he can play the ball with is behind an attacker then this plays the attacker onside. The ruling is quite clear here as it does not specify hands, meaning that it takes into account what you have described above. If a defender is behind the keeper and the keeper is the last defender* in question then if his hand/arm is behind the attacker then he is onside.
*technically not the last defender but second last but is normally referred to as the last man[/quote]
Thanks Chewy. That makes sense. I don’t think there’s been a clarification on whether the goalkeeper’s hands can play a man onside but I think your interpretation is correct and there’s certainly no clarification or advice to contradict it. I noticed while watching RTÉ last night that they had drawn the offside line right through Caballero’s head which looked ridiculous. His hands actually stretched back a fair bit so nearly played Santana on but ultimately Santana’s knee looked to be further forward than Caballero’s fingertips.
I would have to see the goal again, but if one was to interprete the rules in a solely black and white manner and despite Santana putting the ball in the net the officials could argue that Dortmund were not gaining an advantage by this as the ball would have crossed the line regardless and the goal would have been scored.
But on the flip side Malaga would argue argue that he was active as he played the ball. The first offside for the intial cross was clear as day and should have been awarded but I think you would have to give the officials a bit of slack on the second one for Sanatana in the act of scoring, with the ball bouncing around and frenetic defending it would have been almost impossible for the linesman to be sure one way or another whether Santana was offside in real time and it would have been a huge decision for him to stick the flag up and award it offside