It's a great rule, this interfering with the keeper's line of sight, should help prevent shithouse teams molesting the goalkeeper, but can anyone ever remember a decision like this being made before? I can't, but I only watch our games, nobody else's.
There's no doubt in my mind it's the right decision, having seen what people have posted, but I can't ever remember seeing a ref giving it in another game, and I can see from googling it that "line of vision" has been in the offside rules since 2012 or before then.
For me the dodgy decisions evened themselves out. We shouldn't have had a free that we scored from, but neither should they. Not surprisingly MOTD only concentrated on the dodgy decisions in our favour. They ignored the non-foul committed by Thiago. Usual BBC Manchester of the Day anti-LFC narrative.
The question is not whether Mike Dean was right (he was) to rule out their goal on "line of sight" but why other refs don't seem to apply this rule. In a game in which Mike Dean got so many decisions wrong, weirdly he seems to have shone a light on the incompetence of his fellow refs.
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