After today's game and the continual commentary on how it shouldn't have been given a penalty on the sole basis that it was adjudged a foul by a guy standing at a distance, I wanted to have a brief discussion/ opinion gathering here.
Even though I wanna ask and find out in general, I would like to quote today's example for ease myself. Personally, I found no fault in our penalty decision today. It was excellent spotting from the guy on the line. I mean isn't that why he is there? to help out the ref or is he there just to give the offsides(incidentally which he missed today lol) and the goal kicks. I go with the former.
Eevryone was mentioning that the referee was lot closer and he didn't give the penalty and that was a decision already. Why could it not be that the ref saw something and was undecided and the linesman's flag sealed it. Just because something strikes you and have some unconventional point to make doesn't mean you have to mouth off the same shit repeatedly without thinking about an alternative.
Point to note: no question about the penalty, I just wanna know what people think of the linesman's job. Personally I thought it was great work by the ref/linesman team today for that pen.
