I thought to be offsides the part of the body that was beyond the last defender was one that could be used to score. Hands, elbows, and forearms can’t be used to score therfore can’t make a player offsides. The hands and arms of all players, including the goalkeepers, are not considered. For the purposes of determining offside, the upper boundary of the arm is in line with the bottom of the armpit.

There’s a margin of error for the var system, and apparently it’s smaller than millimeters

Just happened in Arsenal-Brentford too. This is not what fans want

there should be a picture in picture with the ball leaving the foot of the passing player, or a bigger picture - how can we trust the VAR guys so much ?

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Tomorrow someone is going to be offside by an eyelash and or a stray mustache hair.

I feel like if we have to judge offside by the current ruleset, letting a machine decide, or having lines pced on the backmost pixels is the fairest. It may be millimetres offside but at the end of the day, that is offside. Harsh, hard to swallow, but also correct.

That said, I think maybe it’s time we look at the offside rule and how it’s decided. Obviously we can’t do away with the rule altogether as that leads to cherry-picking, which leads to defenses sitting by their own goals all game. It would suck. But maybe we need to reinvent the offside rules and what it means to be offside. Another method for stopping cherry-picking that isn’t so controversial.

Now all of these ideas are absolutely garbage, but the point is they highlight completely new systems, not trying to it tech to the current one. Potentially something like if any body part overlaps with the last man, it’s onside (if you want to favour attacker, which we should really). Or the reverse, there must be a gap between the attacker and the defender before the attacker reaches the last man (if you want to favour the defense, which is a bit lame). Maybe it’s a case of creating a shot clock type situation where if you are ahead of the ball but beyond the defender for 1 full second, you are offside. Or use liens on the pitch and must be within 1/3rd a ptichlength of the ball when it’s kicked or something where the defenders don’t matter at all but stops cherrypicking.

Da fuck is even this. You are telling me that if the guy had clenched his fists or had shorter fingers then he wouldnt be offside?

Parts of the body that are illegal to use shouldnt count. His hand cant be used to play so this ‘finger’ offside shouldnt be one.

Basically if you have a big nose of long feet you are more at risk of being offsides? This is beyond ridiculous

argh i know that its right, like its good that its objective, but it does sortve rub me the wrong way be because the attacking player gained no advantage from being such a small margin offside

This is conflicting for me because on the one hand, this is objectively offside even if it’s by millimeters, and I like this technology for eliminating the human error element.

On the other, the offside rule itself is a bit insane to me these days with VAR—I feel like the spirit of the rule has been lost—this is not giving the attacking player a clear advantage. Yes it’s offside by the law—but for what?

The thickness of the line is the margin of error. He clearly sticks out. I am ok with this.

Philadelphia Union fans, is this what you want?

Tbh, I think that if you need a line so thin, it’s not an offside, that’s not how the game meant to be played.

One thing about this tech, is that atleast it’s the same for everyone. No bias etc

I always thought you could only be offside if a part of the body you can use to hit the ball was offside.