The Offside Law

FIFA are close to introducing another major new change to the offside rule.

FIFA are set to change the offside law again.  At the moment, a player is offside when they are in the opponents' half and, when the ball is played, any part of the body is closer to the opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent.

However, FIFA are set to tweak the offside law. Wenger's proposal will see that changed to the whole goal-scoring body of the player. This means that if any part of the body is behind the last defender, the attacker will remain onside.

The rule change will be first implemented in a trial period in Netherlands, Sweden and Italy.

Arsene Wenger, who has been working as FIFA's Chief of Global Football Development for the past four years.

About bloody time as it will stop VAR disallowing loads of goals because someone’s big toe is in an offside position which to me is hard to accept gives them any form of advantage.

Have i got this right,  it's just about how it used to be?

Nope. Players who look a good distance offside (and would have been penalised under the old laws) will be determined to be onside if one of their feet is in line with the defender. Makes holding a defensive line even riskier.

Wenger appears to be determined to get revenge on football for some reason or another. A lot of his suggestions are a bit weird.

Sounds a good idea. You can’t be gaining too much advantage if one of your feet is still in line with the defenders. Would stop all this tragic offside-by-an-eyelash chat you have nearly every week.

Quoted from Maringer

Nope. Players who look a good distance offside (and would have been penalised under the old laws) will be determined to be onside if one of their feet is in line with the defender. Makes holding a defensive line even riskier.

Wenger appears to be determined to get revenge on football for some reason or another. A lot of his suggestions are a bit weird.

Nothing weird about this suggestion as far as I can see

Not a fan of this at all.

The problem isn’t the law, it’s how it’s enforced.

For me, if you’re in an offside position and have an impact within the phase of play…  You’re offside. The distance is somewhat irrelevant to the conversation.

Surely, the Premier League & technology is at a stage in which they can run a camera down each sideline? If you have that at your disposal, you’ll have decisions correct at all times.

There’s going some really odd looking goals.

20 years ago I could explain the offside rule to my Girlfriend a piece of urine but I'm buggered these days.

So does this mean Ross Hannah's coming back?

Doesn't this just turn the problem around? Instead of the attackers big toe has to be behind the defender, now it just has to be level. VAR will still be painting lines to see if it's offside, just behind the attacker instead of Infront of him.
Why do the clowns in charge think they have to somehow improve the offside law, when in fact they end up making it worse?