After the pass was given, I watched the linesman. He ran about 7 steps before flagging, and didn't retreat those 7 steps. In my mind, that makes him about 7 steps out of position when he made the decision.

Of course it's difficult when it's fast moving, but it's more difficult when you're out of position which he was.

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Finally people are blaming the correct incompetent officials. The linesmen and not the ref. The refs are not bent and there are no conspiracies being orchestrated however refs are only human and many things will influence their opinion. Continually falling to the ground and whining will do a player no favours. The smart player will put an arm around the ref, have a chat and get him on his side.

You can assure me of nothing because you know f*** all about it. You're just making this stuff up because, inexplicably, you'd rather defend ridiculous and downright outrageous officials than stick up for your own team when it has clearly and obviously be wronged. Every single time anything like this happens you come on here making up ludicrous excuses for the most appalling cockups that cost us. Every single time without fail.

At this level we expect a reasonable standard of competence and fairness from our officials and if the linesman has to run about in order to do what quite frankly is the most basic and essential thing he has to do then he has to run about. Whether their job is more or less "hard" has no bearing on our entitlement as fans to see our matches arbitrated properly.

You are quite clearly nothing but an FA sockpuppet. Frankly as a lifelong Palace fan I find your constant defence of people who, whether deliberately or merely negligently, hurt our team and ruin our sport really quite offensive. I really think you would rather see us relegated than be shown to be wrong. Even if you didn't claim to be a fan yourself, I would find your comments insensitive and inappropriate but the fact that you do it from the position of supposedly supporting Palace is IMHO an insult to the red and blue.

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Convicted by your own evidence.

Perhaps you should try talking to some Palace fans about it sometime - and listening instead of drowning them out with FA propaganda.

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For what it's worth I was right behind the linesman in block V of the Arthur, row 4. What was truly awful was that the lino's flag stayed down until Wilf was through and the ref and several of the players stared at the lino. Who then put his flag up, clearly thinking "Oh fcuk I'd better do something". The sooner video technology is made to work the better because this is getting ridiculous. Burnley should have been down to ten there and then.

I admit I never saw this sequence of events.

What I will say is that assistants wait until the player in an offside position becomes 'Active' by playing the ball or going for it so maybe he was just waiting for this to happen - I don't know for sure but this is a possibility.

Regards technology, do you really want the game to be stopped to analyse every such 'Offside' type decision ? All very well to call for technology but it's application is a subject of major debate.We have to get the major decisions right without interrupting the flow and very essence of the game.