There is also an elastic idea of “obvious” with offside decisions. Tinkering with any element has unexpected consequences. In defence of flag delays, officiating football is a delicate balance. In double quick time fans and pundits would be just as livid about such moments as they are late flags. Wrongly disallowed goals would spark furious players, managers and clubs. So why are we persisting with indecision? Clearly an early flag which replays show to be wrong is deemed the worse of two evils. Reared on a lifetime of offsides bringing immediate raised flags, this feels like a troubling laissez-faire development which upsets the great flow of football. We place implicit trust in officials to enforce order, so there is incredulity when they fail to respond in the manner we expect. Rather than endangered players, fans seem like the real fall guys here. The flag was raised belatedly, Patricio was taken off on a stretcher after 10 minutes of treatment. In attempting to stop him, keeper Rui Patricio collided with Conor Coady. Mo Salah was put through to score for Liverpool at Wolves in March. The most frequently-heard objection is that “somebody is going to get Seriously Hurt,” which it is tough not to read in the same tone as Helen Lovejoy - “won’t somebody please think of the children?” Yet there are plenty of incidents every weekend when play goes on longer than seems necessary. This season more flexibility has been granted to assistants, meaning the most glaring offsides should be met by an immediate flag.
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They can raise their flags to suggest they thought it probably was offside, knowing full well they might be overruled by the bunker-dwellers in Mike Riley’s secretive Stockley Park hideout. In practice this reduces the country’s best judges of offside decisions to mere opinion-givers. Then what? Safer to let it play out and retrospectively raise the flag when the move is over. A false flag could mean defenders stopping but a striker playing on, scoring beautifully past a diving goalkeeper. The theory is that in a post-Var world an incorrect offside call could compromise a decisive moment. Once a move has finished the flag goes up, often confirming what anyone with a passable understanding of the rules and functioning eyes knew already. They keep their flags at thigh height and spectate like the rest of us, even if there has been a clear offside. Guidance brought in last season in the Premier League mandates that “when an immediate goalscoring opportunity is likely to occur,” referee’s assistants should allow it to continue. Toney looked well offside even in real time, so why was the move allowed to progress despite assistant Harry Lennard being well positioned and on the same side of the pitch as Toney? It happened to Brentford on Saturday night when Ivan Toney’s apparent winner against Liverpool was ruled out seconds after the ball had hit the net. Consequently we are frequently witnessing the height of supporter schadenfreude, a celebration of a goal that wasn’t.
Flags are now arriving later than autumn trains. Perhaps that is why a minor change to the signalling protocol for offside stirs such fury. Scarce and sacred, it should not be tampered with. No moment is as charged as the goal for or against their team.
If you really want to annoy football supporters you have to play with their emotions.
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