Livonia City FC 30 vs. Varzea Rio

** MUSL 2021 **

#519

Not to beat a dead horse, but rough showing from the officiating crew again. The linesman [Jeren Ghoyighi (not sure on spelling)] consistantly demonstrated a lack of understand for the offside rule.

1 - One instance he called a player offside off a Goal Kick (not possible, he later appologized).

2 - Another instance he called a player offside inside his own half (again... not possible. For this one he claimed "there was a rule change in 2019 where now players can be offside in their own half").

3 - He put his flag up for about 70% of the chances for both teams when they were on his half. At first I thought, maybe our runners are just offside alot. Then I watched from the bench and realized that he actually just doesn't understand the rule.

4 - The worst part of this... before and after the game he could be seen wearing a shirt that indicated that he trains referees. Amazing.

Aside from this, I'm not sure why the other team's yellow cards didn't get marked down on the sheet but there were 5 cards in total, 3 for LCFC and 2 for Varzea. Not that yellow cards matter but just notating the missing stat.