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Originally Posted by Bagor
How so? By being distracted? See where I'm going here?
If a "defender is believed to be engaging in unnecessary jostling" with a player in an offside position he clearly is being distracted by that player. Otherwise he wouldn't be jostling with him.
I repeat .... for the last time. The moment Cisse makes contact with Evans or Evans makes contact with Cisse, Cisse is by default involved in play from an offside position.
Cisse whilst in an offside position IS NOT allowed to be involved with play. He clearly is regardless of who "started it".
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As the defender, Evans has the responsibility to recognize who is or isn't offside and treat them as such. If Evans was switched on, he would have know where he was and that Cisse was offside. With the way offside is being called Cisse is allowed to be where is was and it is up to the defender to mark attackers accordingly, which Evans failed to do.
Cisse should have been left alone and the attention that was paid to him was undue and not considered an intentful distraction; Evans let himself be distracted by a passive offisde player.