Everton Banter Archive March 01 2020

01 Mar 2020 20:13:01
PiereLeBlue although we can't change the result you are right the 'goal' should have stood.

In my time you couldn't be offside if an opposing player was the last to touch the ball, effectively being played onside.

Having read the new offside rule which is clear on deflections, if my interpretation is correct, there is no way the goal should have been disallowed.

01 Mar 2020 20:39:59
The linesman has a clear view and doesn't flag and then clearly tells the referee that he was not interfering with play and didn't touch the ball, it's the VAR official who stated that Sigurdsson was interfering with an opposition player being able to play the ball in this case De Gea by being in an offside position, the fact of the matter is if Sigurdsson isn't there De Gea doesn't save that and therefore Sigurdsson being in his line of site should be irrelevant, once again common sense doesn't prevail.

01 Mar 2020 22:58:26
Surely to be in his line of sight De Gea would need to be 3 foot tall as Sigurdsson was on the ground!

02 Mar 2020 02:28:31
The VAR guy was John Moss, say no more he has been against us for years.

02 Mar 2020 09:02:12
It will rumble on till they drop this stupid var idea or use it properly, the onside offside argument has gone on for years, now where talking about armpit hairs and toenails been offside, so many teams have been screwed by this system and all it's done is suck the life from the game.
The referees decision should be final if his assistants don't alert him to a potential issue we move on, if they do and the ref decides to that's when var should be used, not to overturn the referee.

02 Mar 2020 09:50:10
Drop VAR. It's ruining the game. It just can't work 100% until you can get technology into the players kit and the ball. Needs to work alongside some kind of GPS system. Until then, it's still just an interpretation and we had that already with 2 linesmen and a Ref.

As for the goal, I think it's a goal but Sigs sits on his backside far too long. It's not a penalty for me and all he has to do it is start to move away from the goal. De Gea was given the get out of jail card and rightly took it. But in truth he was simply wrong footed by the deflection and the goal should have stood. I know Arsenal are off this season but that's yet another so called top 6 stalwart dominated for large parts of the game.
If we can keep it the same against LFC we will know how far we've come in a couple of months.
Think we have 8 winnable games left after LFC. Could still make a late charge for a europa slot. It's going to be the closest run-in in Prem history. Chelsea hold no fear for me. Think another draw next game.

01 Mar 2020 17:36:55
Forget the whole offside debate at the end, am i the only one who thought gylfi should have had a peno for the tackle on him. Maybe watching it with blue tinted glasses?

01 Mar 2020 18:25:27
Forget that what I want to know is what he was doing just sitting there when the ball is still live and we are in their penalty area attacking. If he gets up and gets on with play we get a deflected winner with no need for a VAR call.

01 Mar 2020 19:30:07
Completely agree, he just sat there having a lovely time.

01 Mar 2020 21:34:38
You need to take another look, he was on the ground due to the late tackle from the utd defender.

01 Mar 2020 21:49:14
Nevertheless he had sufficient time to move, he was not injured.

01 Mar 2020 23:08:06
Had he stood up then he would have been impeding the keepers vision and the correct decision would have been to disallow the goal.
He didn't, he wasn't and they shouldn't have.

01 Mar 2020 23:34:46
Stole my thunder Brassington, had a Siggy stood up and blocked his sight then fair enough.

01 Mar 2020 23:37:16
What I will say is had that tackle on Siggy been anywhere else on the pitch a foul would have been given for a late tackle and a yellow card the very least given to the utd player.

01 Mar 2020 14:55:58
at the match just seen pickfords error got to say you can't even put him on bench cause just havnt got a decent no2 back up coleman looked solid at right back till he got injured sidibie has came on and looked panicky anyways hoping we can try get a second goal see this game out but woudnt be suprised if one or two red cards get dished out C. O. Y. B.

01 Mar 2020 16:19:56
Saved us at the end mate.

01 Mar 2020 16:22:06
Good close shot stopped but not from distance. I'd go for Pope from Burnley.

01 Mar 2020 16:41:21
yeah very true guernsey blue i havnt seen the var check for evertons second goal yet as was stuck behind that pillow in bullens end does any one know was it the right decison or did we get robbed carlo was not happy when whistle went stormed on pitch so can only assume he has seen something that i havnt seen.

01 Mar 2020 16:50:29
Fuming it was disallowed but would have been even angrier if it was allowed against us.

01 Mar 2020 17:13:06
just seen it on replay bigreg if that was united getting that 90th winner that goal would of stood am sorry but never in million years is gylfi blocking david de gea vision shoudnt been ruled out sorry for the rant but again goal should of stood simple as anyways il try keep it cool just annoyed that we didn't get 3 points but can't fault players effort today apart from 1 or 2.

01 Mar 2020 16:33:35
Rumours that we are looking at goalkeepers.

01 Mar 2020 12:20:29
Just reading the echo piece about it’s the 40th anniversary since Dixie passed away at Goodison, there’s a picture of Dixie and there’s definitely a resemblance to DCL just a passing thought but take a look at it.

I’ve submitted pictures to the sightings page to make it easier to compare, we can only hope Dom goes on to be a prolific as the great man.

01 Mar 2020
New image uploaded to the
Everton Player Sightings page entitled, old footballer