I think the league can’t see the wood for the trees. Fans want to see goals not agonising over whether a hair is offside. It’s absolute nonsense for all sides.
Yes, the pantomime of millimetre accuracy using cameras that have a margin of error of 15cm when judging players sprinting at 35 kmph.
This is the sham of @FA_PGMOL
Indeed. The semi-automated system should resolve the accuracy question when introduced, though. Still, even then I think most reasonable fans would want marginal calls to go to the attacking team.
The game's laws need revision.
The pedant treats the letter as written in stone, and of course no laws can be. Football existed before the offside law, and would exist after it.
It was created to stop fat lads hanging around the opponents penalty box, not to stop fans seeing well worked goals
Precisely this.
It always has been - and those in charge have wandered between favouring attackers to favouring the concept of using technology to apply the letter of the law to a T.
Technology always benefits from having a margin of error applied to it.
And it’s not unreasonable to ask just how much of a benefit/advantage Watkins had over the defender by being 2mm in front? But that’s subjective. POGMOL, as you say, are being black and white in applying the rules.
Even if you accept Ollie was fractionally off when he received the ball logic says he must have been on when the ball was actually played as it must have taken time to reach him, even if it was only a fraction of a second…
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Definitely needs a higher tolerance level
This is not why the offside rule exists
There should be a 20 second time limit for VAR.
Agree with Wenger and his clear space rule amendment
This is the sham of @FA_PGMOL
The pedant treats the letter as written in stone, and of course no laws can be. Football existed before the offside law, and would exist after it.
It was created to stop fat lads hanging around the opponents penalty box, not to stop fans seeing well worked goals
It always has been - and those in charge have wandered between favouring attackers to favouring the concept of using technology to apply the letter of the law to a T.
Technology always benefits from having a margin of error applied to it.