We're trying to make sure that when we blow our whistle, we get it right, and when an assistant referee calls it, he's certain they're offside. People don't appreciate the discipline of the teams, and this is what we're trying to do. 'You go and have a pint down your local, and the amount of times I will be told by fans or friends that a player is offside, and I say to them, 'If you just press pause when that No 9 picks up the ball, you will be amazed at how disciplined these teams are now,'' Barnes said.

Kodaira, the 2018 Winter Olympics gold medalist, clocked 37.74 seconds, falling 0.13 behind American winner. 2002: Japan & South Korea If you thought the biggest shock of the 2002 World Cup was Senegal beating France, USA beating Portugal or England beating Argentina, you were wrong. The offside line was another area of contention.īarnes pointed out that some fans back home do not always realise just how disciplined teams are, so many instances where a play may appear to be clearly offside on the television screen, is actually legal. Japan's Nao Kodaira came second in the World Cup opener on Friday in the women's 500 meters, with Tatsuya Shinhama also claiming a runner-up finish in the men's race over the same distance. 'If there was some doubt, we reward the attack because we don't want to stop the game, we want continuity.' 'Sometimes one camera angle shows one thing, and one camera angle shows another, but if it's clear to everyone that it was a forward pass, we should be giving it,' Barnes, 40, said. However, despite the array of camera angles available to referees, video replays can often provide conflicting messages, which sometimes makes decision-making a tad tricky. So, when a TMO comes in, the referees are looking at the hands and the ball,' he explained to the tournament website.

'It's not about the direction that the ball eventually ends up, it's about the direction it's travelling in as it leaves the hands.

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