QUOTE (X-Offender @ Apr 3 2011, 07:59 PM)
The linesman? He was pinpoint in both occasions. First of all, Abbiati's save was at the line. SkyCalcio had a special camera from above which made it abundantly clear the ball did not pass all the line.
Could you find a video/image of this special shot you're talking about?
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Secondly, yes, Pato was faintly offside, but in the doubt FIFA says the flag shouldn't be raised. Thus, the linesman made the right decision.
I don't understand, it's ridiculous to rule out something like that as offside. it was a matter of a few centimeters and even for that we needed to watch the reply a couple of times to decide. the offside rule should be used to prevent unfair advantages like when an attacker is a few steps ahead of his opponent. Pato had no advantage over Cambiasso whatsoever.