Description of incident: After a quick game of pinball inside the Birmingham penalty area, the ball dropped to Evra on the left hand side of the box. He drilled it across goal towards Park, Scholes and Rooney but Dann stretched to reach the ball before all of them unfortunately diverting it into his own net in the process.
Date of Game: Saturday 9th January 2010
Home Team:
Birmingham City | Away Team: 
Manchester UnitedReferee: Mark Clattenburg | Linesman: John Flynn & Paul Simpson
Decision Type: Offside | Verdict:
| Decision Difficulty: 4/5Affect on Result: N/A | Winner: Manchester United | Loser: Birmingham City
Players Involved: Patrice Evra, Ji-Sung Park, Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney (Man Utd) & Scott Dann (Birmingham)
Summary: There was the suggestion by Mark Lawrenson on Match of the Day that because it was an own goal, it no longer becomes an offside decision. And, allegedly, this was also Mark Clattenburg's view. This is a ridiculous argument as Scott Dann only put it in his own net due to the presence of the 3 Man Utd players. The reason allowing the goal is the right decision is that no Man Utd player was offside anyway (Ridgewell was playing them on). Alex McCleish may have been right when he said it was the right decision, wrong reasons. However, whatever the reason it was the right decision to over-rule the linesman's offside flag.
Cheers,
WB
.JPG)
No comments:
Post a Comment