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Side note - What a Shocker from Gillet! Never have liked him or Williams tbh. You can't call that a backpass, and then two penalties out of thin air. Also the amount of soft fouls ffs let the game flow dude if they're not making an attempt to protect the ball it's not worth the foul.
I am not sure if you saw it clearly, Djinksta. Initially I had no idea what happened - OK, I was just getting a beer - and when I saw the side on replay I thought "how could they not call it offside", just what the linesman saw. However, the replay from behind the goalposts shows clearly that Burns collected the ball from an opposition player, not from a Nix player. Backpass or not, the last person who touched the ball before Burnsie was a Melbourne City player, and that means he (Burns) can't be called for offside.
I may of course be mistaken, but the default rule is that you are never "offside" until your team member plays a ball forward to you while you are behind the enemy lines. This was not the case here, so no offside.
The lino raised his flag and from a distance it looked like offside. When the goal was scored I was waiting for the ref to take play back to a FK.
