Ah yes, the Linesman, arguably the most irritating
and most controversial of all the soccer officials. What kind of person wakes up one day and decides, 'Yes, I would like to be a professional linesman'? All this guy does for 90 minutes is run up and down a line while looking sideways. His job is to catch players 'offside'. He doesn't get a whistle. He only carries a small flag. He can't talk or shout, he is to 'snap' his flag in order to be heard. He gets abused by the players, fans and sometimes even the referee himself. In South America, Linesmen are escorted by police for fear of being killed! A thankless job this is. Referees are the ones that get all the fame if any. Just look at the Colina fella. A bald, hairless, bug-eyed, alien-looking freak by the way. The 'Offside' rule is there to prevent strikers from waiting at the opponent's goal mouth the whole game. So soccer needs the offside rule, if not it will be basketball. The problem is, the offside rule is entirely dependent on the linesman call. One to many times a goal is disallowed by the Linesman. More often than not the call is a controversial one. What's worse is at the end of the day, the Linesman call can be 'Overruled' by the ref. So who really wants to be a Linesman? Losers.... thats who.
Ah yes, the Linesman, arguably the most irritating
and most controversial of all the soccer officials. What kind of person wakes up one day and decides, 'Yes, I would like to be a professional linesman'? All this guy does for 90 minutes is run up and down a line while looking sideways. His job is to catch players 'offside'. He doesn't get a whistle. He only carries a small flag. He can't talk or shout, he is to 'snap' his flag in order to be heard. He gets abused by the players, fans and sometimes even the referee himself. In South America, Linesmen are escorted by police for fear of being killed! A thankless job this is. Referees are the ones that get all the fame if any. Just look at the Colina fella. A bald, hairless, bug-eyed, alien-looking freak by the way. The 'Offside' rule is there to prevent strikers from waiting at the opponent's goal mouth the whole game. So soccer needs the offside rule, if not it will be basketball. The problem is, the offside rule is entirely dependent on the linesman call. One to many times a goal is disallowed by the Linesman. More often than not the call is a controversial one. What's worse is at the end of the day, the Linesman call can be 'Overruled' by the ref. So who really wants to be a Linesman? Losers.... thats who. 
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There goes my career choice....
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