The Offside Law

Just go back to the old offside law .You were always active wherever you were on the pitch

Quoted from bradzmilne

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.

The distance is very relevant when the technology attempts to measure to the cm and the difference between chosen frames can be upwards of 20cm if the defender and attacker are moving in opposite directions. I think it's at least something worth trialling and now gives the attacker a bit of an edge.

Quoted from immariner

The distance is very relevant when the technology attempts to measure to the cm and the difference between chosen frames can be upwards of 20cm if the defender and attacker are moving in opposite directions. I think it's at least something worth trialling and now gives the attacker a bit of an edge.

I actually don't know what you said so it's probably time for me to take up darts, or knitting or painting daffodils.

Quoted from GYinScuntland

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

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Don’t you think it’s about time you married her

Quoted from GYinScuntland

I actually don't know what you said so it's probably time for me to take up darts, or knitting or painting daffodils.

That 11 month daffodil painting preseason might drag! I'll try and do better to explain.

The VAR cameras shoot at 25 frames per second. One of those frames has to be chosen as the point at which the ball left the foot of the player passing to their teammate, who is being adjudged as on or offside. There's no way of really knowing the exact point and the difference in positioning of the attacker relative to the defender between 1 frame and the next (0.04 seconds) can be upwards of 20cm. So when VAR attempts to measure offsides down to the cm, this is essentially guesswork for extremely tight offsides, particularly when the attacker and defender are moving in opposite directions at pace as the margin for error is much greater.

I'm pretty tired so that was probably a shite explanation but I hope it helped a bit

Quoted from immariner

That 11 month daffodil painting preseason might drag! I'll try and do better to explain.

The VAR cameras shoot at 25 frames per second. One of those frames has to be chosen as the point at which the ball left the foot of the player passing to their teammate, who is being adjudged as on or offside. There's no way of really knowing the exact point and the difference in positioning of the attacker relative to the defender between 1 frame and the next (0.04 seconds) can be upwards of 20cm. So when VAR attempts to measure offsides down to the cm, this is essentially guesswork for extremely tight offsides, particularly when the attacker and defender are moving in opposite directions at pace as the margin for error is much greater.

I'm pretty tired so that was probably a shite explanation but I hope it helped a bit

Trust me, it didn't.
But thank you for actually attempting. 😃

This should be applauded, football is about entertainment, the officials should be looking at ways to allow goals not disallow them and this is a massive step in the right direction.

The only positive from this means more goals in the prem

In the last 50years  Town were offside  6242 times - their opponents were offside 6243 times so obviously Town have been using all the variations of the rule to their advantage.

So instead of measuring whether a player's big toe is ahead of play, they'll be measuring if their bum hair is behind play?