Share.

9 Comments

  1. He’s offside what do you want them to do? Rewrite the rules to suit you on this particular occasion?

  2. VAR has ruined the game with crap like this.

    The offside rule was never intended to be taken to this extreme. It’s pushed a sensible rule designed to prevent goal hanging into the realm of those who faun over tight details and nit picking. In real life, no one would ever spot this and I refuse to believe anyone genuinely believes the teeniest of bodily margins is worth so much artificial interference.

    It’s not in keeping with the spirit of the rules, ruins the spectacle for match going fans and ruins the flow of a game. Adds no value whatsoever in its present form.

  3. Remember that game they called a goal offside by the players nose? I’m more annoyed by that

  4. However you define offside, there will always be edge cases which are in the grey area.

    Even if you use the “clear daylight” idea, there will always be examples which have a little bit of daylight, but is that enough to class as “clear”?

  5. Outside_Resource_482 on

    VAR is created as a talking point. It’s deliberately controversial so that it will spread on the media, and also social media.