I recently lost to a goal I thought was off-side. On watching the replay I saw it wasn't, but I still complained to the media saying it ruined our game. But the FA said nothing. Numerous times I have lost to goals that are actually offside and been fined for complaining, but why, when it wasn't offside, did they say nothing?

It is hard to see what is actually offside as the player blobs are rather too big to make it clear...

Yeah. Would 3D clear it up?

No.

I mean, a manager by the side of the pitch won't instantly be able to see what is offside or not, anyway. After the game, he will generally shoot his mouth off beofre having a chance to watch the replay rather than after..

It is a pretty useless option if you ask me when there is actually no way of knowing if some goals are on or offside due to what you can actually see.

I think I read a post where someone scored when they where 10 or 20 yards offside and they were fined for complaining. I don't watch replays so I don't get a second view in the match.

I always thought that it was pretty pointless complaining. It does seem to affect the players attitude towards you through their PR.

ALSO on the ingame commentary it will normally say "did that goal look a bit dubious?" and when this has been said, i've never recieved a fine. Don't bother slagging ref's off anyway...

the dubious goal thingie comes up at least 2 or three times in a match and sometimes you have actually scored a screamer with the 4 defenders between you and the goalie. It's annoying...
I usually don't complain about the ref as all it seems to do is get you banned or reprimanded by your own club

I think this option could be better only if FA would do something rather than just "silent over claim". Maybe it's true that most of the time FA tend not to do anything about it; yet they do ban referee sometimes.