Offside

Assistants practise seeing incidents from angles that are not directly in line, so that they can make decisions without having to be as fast as the flash.

 

I see. You may as well do away with them in my opinion and just rely on VAR. alternatively just scrap the offside rule

 

I have two screenshot images. One from the west stand and one from the east stand.

The camera angle from the west stand is behind play which is giving a false impression. The camera from the east stand is level with play. In real time i immediately thought offside.

I was wrong. The official was right.

One "suggests"offside one clearly shows onside.

Fine margins.

 

The goal was good. Understand the rules & get over it..

 

So, two obvious solutions then. Either:

1. Pay referees and assistants 100k per week so they can be the athletic equals of the players they referee (they still couldn't outrun the ball, mind!); or
2. Let's hand all decisions over to VAR and do away with the assistants!

Or maybe we could just accept that they are human beings doing a very difficult job to the best of their ability? The 'mistakes', such as they are will likely even themselves out over a season, unless you subscribe to Trump-like conspiracy theories of imagined bias. (Or you want to engage in the kind of brain-dead casual sexism contained in the original post!)

 

When all is said and done (cue Abba music ), despite them making 10 changes, we lost 1-0 to a very tight decision against some class players. Would have loved to get through and face the Blunts but proud of the team for their efforts last night. The sexist comments are way out of order but sadly we seem to be turning even more into a less tolerant society these days

 

I know people don’t like change but in this case they have mucked about with the offside rule over the years m altered a simple system that worked pretty well for one that nobody really understands. That last night being a bloody good example player on his own well in front of the last man and offside, but you still have to take him into account in case he becomes onside

 

Was about to post exactly the same thing. Just go back to the original offside rule.
I had to watch the match last night on a feed that had the BBC footage but no commentary. I started off not realising it looked offside, saw the replays and thought that's a yard offside! Then watched the rest of the match with a sense of grievance before coming on here to find that it was onside but also that some thought Abraham was off all through the move.
Even VAR can't sort this out if you have to have an interpretation on whether someone is initially in an active position or not.

 

Wonder if the new rule about not putting the flag up until the play had ended confuses things when VAR is not involved.
Shouldn’t do, but she was in line with play when the ball was played to James, so if had flagged......

 

Then you would be a sprinter!!!!

 

And to add to that, VAR would not be called upon because it was not a clear and obvious error.

 

This is the essence of how stupid the laws of the game have become. Lines(people) not allowed to flag until a phase of play ends. Why? So VAR can intervene.
So the tail is wagging the dog - VAR isn't supporting the game, the game is supporting VAR!
And in the meantime play has to continue and anything can happen, including serious injury. Will the suits feel any sense of shame the day a player is being carried off with a career-ending injury whilst VAbloodyR is deciding that his injury was all for nothing because the incident happened after play should have ended?
And yes, I know we didn't have that despicable system last night, but the rule change for linos is creeping in down the food chain - and it was written solely with VAR in mind.