United’s controversial equaliser exposed a major flaw in the rules but also gave them a platform to close the gap on City
forward makes a run for a through-ball. The defender steps up. The ball is played and the forward is in an offside position. The forward chases the ball, following it, escorting it. Something in his head – perhaps Bruno Fernandes screaming – warns him that he might be offside and so he pulls away, allowing another forward to sweep the ball into the net. Is that forward offside?
He hasn’t touched the ball but can he be deemed to not have been interfering? Did his presence not prevent the initial defender charging back and trying to hook the ball away? It’s the sort of question that could have kept medieval theologians occupied for a lifetime. Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas would have written controversial tracts upon it, then those tracts would have been analysed and those analyses themselves analysed. Whole libraries would have been devoted to the theme.
But what of City? It says much about the standards they have set that a run of 14 games of which they have won nine can be regarded as a wobble. But the performance in the
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