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I completely agree with this. @Smiley Culture is correct in that offside is offside, but we shouldn’t be taking minutes to decide these calls. For me, if it’s so close to call with the naked eye on a replay within 10/15 seconds, benefit of the doubt goes with the attacking team and you get on with the game. It’s become too heavily weighed in favour of the defenders.

Rajesh 'Johno' Patel-Smithington

Said it before and I'll say it again but the pros (a gradual increase in correct decisions) are nowhere near outweighing the cons (killing the best moments in football).

Even the rock beside it looks like a face with eyes, nose and mouth grinning,

Correct me if I'm wrong but i don't think there's the same issues around the accuracy of goal line technology? There's also many more variables with offside than with the simple outcome of goal line technology. Football should never have been made this complicated

Standings after Round 2 of Last Man Standing 2020-21 @Viva la FCB hits the front with @RandoEFC, @...Dan and @DeadLinesman in close attention. Pressure on @Stan to get on the board in Round Three as he is the only one not to score any points in the opening two rounds.

It's gone!!!! Beam me up, Scotty

I don't have a problem with VAR looking at it but I have a serious issue with the lines business. Why should VAR waste the time they do using these stupid lines when the ref could just as quickly trot over, see its a tight decision and just say to himself, is it really that obvious for me to not award a goal? We don't need lines. Look at it once or twice with the naked eye, three times if it's really tight and if you're not sure, the answer is staring you in the face. Award the goal. I really dont think anyone can really cry about it if its that tight.

From what I've experienced of it this season, I'd personally be happy for it to be judged by the naked eye from the camera shot. By all means let VAR look at it, but if its too close to call from the views they are provided and the referee really doesn't know, give the goal. I don't think anyone can complain if its that tight. The lines are just not working for me. Horribly inconsistent. I won't be convinced otherwise. Rightly or wrongly, it's up to the referee to interpret penalty decisions, he may as well judge the offside too, let's not forget they should carry a decisive role in the game.

Yes but only after everyone else in a higher priority has had access to it.

Offside is offside. If you want goals that are less than 3mm offside to be allowed then you're only moving the line and then when you have a goal disallowed for being 3.2mm offside you'll be getting your Kleenex out again. The offside rule is the offside rule. The way you have to wait for VAR to celebrate a goal now is a problem I don't contest but the offside rule itself is about the only rule in football that makes sense and doesn't need changing. Whether or not the technology can reliably enforce the offside rule with 100% accuracy is another debatable issue. Personally I don't think it can but there's always going to be a margin of error, whether you try and give the benefit of doubt to the attacker up to a certain threshold or you accept the current use of the technology. As much as nobody wants to see goals getting chalked off for any excuse, in this instance there has at least been a bit of consistency in how they're enforcing the offside rule. It's not high praise but it's happened to a lot of teams. As for the number of offsides against Liverpool. We've been hearing for years as an explanation of why teams like them and Man Utd get so many penalties from fans of those clubs is that it's only because they spend more time in the opposition box and their players are harder to tackle or drawing a foul or whatever. If that's an acceptable reason then you also have to acknowledge that a team that goes on the attack more often like this Liverpool side does is also going to get caught offside more often. All I've read about the Salah goal since yesterday is "his toe was offside" or "he was only just offside". If his toe, which he can score with, is offside, then he is offside, that is the rule, that has always been the rule, with or without VAR. This is how lines work. Your problem isn't with the rule, it's with the false hope you get from the flag staying down. So yeah, just about everything surrounding the implementation of VAR is again flawed and impacts on the experience of the fans but in this instance the rule itself should be left well alone and I don't think this one thing is actually affecting results in an unfair way.

Same. The length of time taken for some decisions is negatively affecting how VAR is perceived. Delay of the game isn't great from a fan's perspective. How do you decide what length of time to give refs though? And does that factor in allowing referees to see their decisions on a monitor too?

Being offside is a clear error pal.

I said it in the match thread yesterday that VAR shouldn't be used for ruling out incidents like the Salah one. It should be used for ones like Mane's yesterday, absolutely. You can see in that incident Mane's clearly off. When they start drawing lines to try to show a toe or something offside it's gone too far. Sometimes drawing lines from the wrong part of the defenders body too let's not forget. I'm not having that they're always getting the right frame from when it's left the player passing the ball either

Ah yes, the team who often has the ball 60% of the time who plays long through balls to speedy forwards has had the most goals overturned. Crazy levels of conspiracy here.

Aussies are thrashing Indian pace attack. Pace alone isn't a problem for them at home, learn from us last year

Stay onside then maybe?

AJ's 'nothing' fight is his mandatory and if he doesn't fight him he will lose the belt. Pulev has only lost once against Klitchsko. But at his age you expect AJ to get past him. Fury has never defended a World Title, and he loves cherry picking those unranked opponents. Hopefully it does happen as i do believe all of the people involved want the fight, which could never have been said about the AJ-Wilder fight when that was being discussed and Wilder and/or his team were ducking AJ.