1971: Referee Ray Tinkler Leeds United v West Brom

Leeds (UK), 1971: Ray Tinkler ignores an offside flag to allow Astle's goal and dent Leeds United's title push.

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[hartforp]

@reltonpelton Not sute how old you are ,but you would be right if the game was played today ,but the rules were different back then,if the player who scores was off side in the bulid up he was offside, hence the linesman (correctly) raised his flag.In those days it did not matter if you were or were not interfering with play ,if you were offside, then just because your own player ran beyond you did not play you onside .Thts why the rule was changed.

[warwickshiressteam]

Relton Pelton is right; the West Brom player intercepted the ball and ran with it - no offside !!

Strange how Leeds supporters never mention the offside goal the same week they beat Arsenal 1-0 with.

[baggies5468]

Astle is The King!

[geofflorimer]

gelded road end that day, we was cheated, too scared to go on pitch as was only 15 then

[r4h4al]

Now come on the second pass is offside !?!?!?FFS!

[Toomuchwin22]

What song is this? :)

[reltonpelton]

@hartforp what does it matter when i was born? the offside rule is not so complex that it takes a lifetime to understand it. it is your opinion that the linesman was right. it is my opinion that the referee was right. it was the referee's opinion that he was right, and his was the only opinion that mattered, because he was the referee.

[Freespirit8100]

Tinkler ... Fuck you to this day, you cheat. The crowd had every right to go beserk.

[reltonpelton]

your quite right mate i wasnt born. but my dad was there and later he taught me a few rudiments of civilisation like the offside rule and why you should never run onto a football pitch like a fucking dickhead.

[reltonpelton]

 I'm very sorry you haven't got a Dad and were raised in a dustbin by a tramp or something but he isn't offside until a )the ball is passed forward, rather than hitting someone in the fucking shin, and b)the referee blows his whistle, and swearing at me isn't gonna change it at this late stage is it?

[hartforp]

@reltonpelton you were no doubt not even thought about in 1971 never mind watching football,but if you were you are more of a moron than I thought.It makes no diffrenece about passing the ball or what the referee decided on the day,Astle was off side in the Leeds half when Brown received the ball,he was not off side when he scored but it did not matter then as he had come from an offside position and the linesman was right!So fuck off and shut up.