The FA CUP Fifth Round ** Spoilers ** [14th - 16th February 2015]

It would seem to me that standing on the goal line wouldn't necessarily mean that you had broken those guidelines. So potentially it could happen.

Assuming you genuinely didn't prevent the keeper or another player from being able to play the ball, then is it really that much of an advantage to be on the line? I would imagine that the risk of just getting in the way and therefore 'interfering with an opposition player' would outweigh any benefit you might get.

Would be interesting to see how a referee did interpret that situation though.

I'm not suggesting that the guidelines are right and cover every situation in a way which makes sense. Just that in this instance the referee appears to have applied the guidelines and it's hard to see how he could have given Rooney as offside in that instance, without just ignoring the guidelines that he's meant to follow.
 
Okay, I disagree, if you've put yourself in a position where the keeper has a chance to assume you play the ball or don't and if you don't its goal bound thats challenging enough for me.

You wouldn't be interfering if you didn't touch the ball or the keeper if you were on the line if you moved out of the way at just the right moment, so it would be fine, causing the keeper to hesitate or have to consider you is fine apparently :p
 
fez said:
Thats bad decision making really. People are talking as if it was an easy save for the keeper if Rooney didn't make him "hesitate". If thats the case he had a choice between 100% saving the initial shot or perhaps a 5% chance of saving it if Rooney is onside and smashes it in from about 3 yards out.
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The goalkeeper doesn't have time to weigh up the possibilities his decision is made purely by instinct, had Rooney not been standing there he would have immediately dived towards the ball, the fact that Rooney was there makes him unsure about where the ball is ultimately heading and he hesitated.

You see it all of the time with crosses from free kicks where players aim for the far corner because they know that if any attacker gets close to it, even if they do not touch it it basically short circuits the goalkeepers brain, they don't dive for the ball because they think the attacker will get a touch and by the time they have realised that the attacker hasn't touched it it's too late to make the save.

However you interpret the rules Rooney was interfering with play from an offside position, it's quite possible that the goalkeeper wouldn't have saved it anyway but as Rooney was offside and interfering it doesn't matter.
 
But he wasn't offside, or interfering according to the guidelines that the referee is meant to follow :p

I can understand why people feel like he's interfering, because he affects the goalkeepers split second decision making. But the guidelines make no allowance for 'distracting an opponent', when the referee is trying to decide if you're on or off side.

Unless the referee agrees with Purdy's interpretation that Rooney was 'challenging' the goalkeeper for the ball, then he can't decide that he was interfering - unless he ignores the guidelines he's been given.

I am sure the referees will have had a lot more clarification on how to interpret the guidelines and what things like 'challenging for the ball' mean. Which is why I said it would be really good if referees could explain the details behind why the gave this sort of decision.
 
mmj_uk said:
The goalkeeper doesn't have time to weigh up the possibilities his decision is made purely by instinct, had Rooney not been standing there he would have immediately dived towards the ball, the fact that Rooney was there makes him unsure about where the ball is ultimately heading and he hesitated.
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You say that but Rooney's instict would have been to get a touch yet he had composure to realise he'd be given offside and get out of the way. For me it was goalkeeper's mistake, he knew Rooney was offside as he straight away complained about him and wanted offside to be given. I guess that's why he's 2nd choice L1 keeper.
 
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