The issue with offside is, if you don’t draw a line somewhere, there’s no point in drawing a line.
They’ve set the line at closest playable point, so that’s what it needs to be. If that’s half a toe, it’s half a toe.
Particular with the AI assisted modelling FIFA and UEFA use. Just make it fully automated and instantaneous(ish).
Not as big a fan of the guy in a room drawing an estimated line.
Alternative to defining a line is taking away VAR and put it back to AR and accepting your team is going to be on the wrong end of errors.
We have VAR because everyone was bitching about exactly this.
Would I be concerned if they changed that to furthest point back? Not really, although that’s a longer harder check.
They’ve set the line at closest playable point, so that’s what it needs to be. If that’s half a toe, it’s half a toe.
Particular with the AI assisted modelling FIFA and UEFA use. Just make it fully automated and instantaneous(ish).
Not as big a fan of the guy in a room drawing an estimated line.
Alternative to defining a line is taking away VAR and put it back to AR and accepting your team is going to be on the wrong end of errors.
We have VAR because everyone was bitching about exactly this.
Would I be concerned if they changed that to furthest point back? Not really, although that’s a longer harder check.
Arsene Wenger has a current proposal to FIFA is for the whole man to be in front of the last defender before being offside, the rule is supposed to stop players gaining an unfair advantage by being ahead of the defenders - half a kneecap or a nose is hardly an unfair advantage. Wengers way clearly shows the advantage being gained.