Fans of Leeds United have been reacting to a post on Twitter, in which the club’s majority owner Andrea Radrizzani highlighted a controversial offside decision given against Leeds at Crystal Palace on Sunday.
In his post, Radrizzani quote-tweets an image which appears to show Patrick Bamford’s arm in a marginally offside position against Crystal Palace, during a passage of play which saw the striker find the back of the net for Leeds, only for VAR to rule the goal out.
Radrizzani’s comment on the image is nothing more than an emoji of a man shrugging, which could be interpreted to mean that he is at a loss as to why Bamford was judged to be in an offside position.
So, what did these Leeds United fans have to say in reaction to the image of the offside decision prior to Bamford’s disallowed goal?
https://twitter.com/pgb_lufc/status/1325111721212698625
It’s totally spoiling the sport.
— gavcav (@gavcav1) November 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/LUFCManny/status/1325170505515737090
While Palace went on to win the fixture 4-1, Bamford’s disallowed goal came when the match was only 1-0 in the advantage of Roy Hodgson’s side, and, if it had stood, as well as Bamford going on to score his next chance in the match as he did, it could be argued that the complexion of the game would have changed entirely.
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It would appear that these Leeds fans feel extremely hard done by regarding the decision, as many more took to Twitter to air their frustration about VAR’s decision to rule out the strike.
Total joke
— Josey – back up North ? (@jemccudden) November 7, 2020
Farcical. He’s behind 2 defenders and level with third. Joke of a decision
— Graham Bradbury (@GrahamBradbury3) November 7, 2020
Outrageous
— john heaney (@heaneyjohn) November 7, 2020
Unbelievable. https://t.co/fw3P8aa2Sr
— Andy (@bothberie) November 7, 2020
Take em to court boss
— GARY5G (@5GsG5) November 7, 2020
All in all, it would appear the vast majority of these Leeds fans are furious with the call to rule Bamford’s goal out for offside, and, we have to say, it is questionable what advantage the striker gained by part of his arm allegedly being in an offside position, particularly as all of the parts of his body that he could legally score a goal with appeared to be in an onside position.