The US goal in the gold medal game against Brazil illustrates an ongoing controversy in refereeing. Sophia Smith was clearly offside but since she let Mallory Swanson receive it rather than touching it herself, she was not deemed to have committed an offside offense and the goal, which proved to be the gold-medal goal, was allowed to stand.
It was discussed fairly extensively in the US pre/post/play-by-play thread and, to a lesser extent, in the International Subforum, but together with a...
WoSoRef / Passive Perversions & Offside Life
