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Originally Posted by gazzae
Yeah but the point I was making was that strikers who are offside and score never get criticised for "not telling the ref" even when its clear that he knows hes offside - kluivert against the pool as an example. But when a keeper did it he was hung up by the media as all that was wrong with cheating footballers.
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I know what you're saying, but Liddell
can't come out and say he was blatantly offside - there was a question about who's head the ball came off and, bearing in mind the fact that Liddell was already running to collect the flick on, he wouldn't have known one way or the other.
IMO, he won't get criticised for saying this because it was a questionable decision anyway, and he's basically just shooting his mouth off.
EDIT: More to the point, in the example of Roy Carroll, it was obvious as soon as he did it that the ball was about a yard over the line - this has been seen a blatant attempt to fool the officials (whether it was or not is a fairly moot point). Unfortunately, keepers are the players who get the most scrutinised when they make a mistake, which Carroll did (spilling the ball in the first place).
I'm not criticising Carroll for his actions (I believe that most, if not all, keepers would have done the same thing) but the difference is that Carroll denied a clear
goal, whereas Liddells 'blatant offside' was a
goalscoring opportunity, and I think that's the difference - none of this would have been brought up if the shot had been saved.