Yebbut that would turn offside in to a criteria-based judgement (like fouls) rather than

black or white facts (like over the line or not).

1mm or 5 yards... offside is offside, unpalatable though that is.

Studying the stills on twitter I'm now pretty sure he was offside. Once they went to VAR, it was hard for them to not reach that conclusion.

Posted By: norway on January 16th 2019 at 21:12:13

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Really? VAR? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 16, 20:26:26
- Indeed. VARcical. (n/m) (Other Football) - mr carra, Jan 16, 20:27:48
- that is atrocious (Other Football) - Charles21, Jan 16, 20:27:18
  - It was offside! (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Jan 16, 20:27:54
    - No it wasn’t (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jan 16, 20:36:08
      - How can you say that? (Other Football) - norway, Jan 16, 20:40:04
        
        Because you can't be certain it was (Other Football) - mr carra, Jan 16, 20:47:00
        
        Indication people need to go to specsavers (n/m) (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jan 16, 20:51:45
        
        Yep, I now concede that point... because the graphic line was in the wrong place. (Other Football) - norway, Jan 16, 20:50:45
        
        Uncertain, i.e not clear and or obvious then? (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Jan 16, 20:46:44
        
        Now agree. (Other Football) - norway, Jan 16, 20:51:34
        
        I still think he was probably offside though. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Jan 16, 20:53:07
        
        I think he probably was too (Other Football) - mr carra, Jan 16, 21:06:22
        
        Yebbut that would turn offside in to a criteria-based judgement (like fouls) rather than (Other Football) - norway, Jan 16, 21:12:13
        
        Fair point, though I'm not sure technology is up to proving such small margins (Other Football) - mr carra, Jan 16, 21:15:43
        
        Agree. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Jan 16, 21:26:02
    - Was it though? (Other Football) - mr carra, Jan 16, 20:32:42
    - It wasn’t - even by the strictest interpretation... (Other Football) - Dog, Jan 16, 20:31:02
      - Nobody, surely, can want goals disallowed for that (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Jan 16, 20:33:07
        
        Certainly not. (n/m) (Other Football) - Dog, Jan 16, 20:35:25
    - Meh (Other Football) - Charles21, Jan 16, 20:30:17
      - *Murphy (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Jan 16, 20:30:28

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