Description of incident: Fabregas brought the ball forward, delaying his pass to Eduardo until the very last moment and risking an offside call in the process. No call came and Eduardo's cross found its way to Merida who controlled & finished superbly.
Date of Game: Sunday 17th January 2010
Home Team:
Bolton Wanderers | Away Team:
ArsenalReferee: Phil Dowd | Linesman: Mark Scholes & Patrick Keane
Decision Type: Offside | Verdict: Verdict:
| Decision Difficulty: 5/5Affect on Result: N/A | Winner: Arsenal | Loser: Bolton
Players Involved: Cesc Fabregas, Da Silva Eduardo, Fran Merida (Arsenal) & Gretar Rafn Steinsson (Bolton)
Summary: This was a really tight call, so hats off to the referee and linesman for getting it right. Eduardo was played onside by Steinsson, just. And I'm only confident in that decision because of video replays combined with Sky+ pause & rewind! It's times like this where video replays would ruin the game - we could end up with a scenario where, even though the goal would be allowed by the ref, it would invariably lead to video review due to protests, delaying the game and resulting in the same decision regardless. That's only one side of the coin, obviously.
Cheers,
WB
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