The International Football Association Board (IFAB) is reportedly considering a change in the highly-debated offside rule in the game next season that is at par with what legendary football manager Arsène Wenger suggested as he currently serves as the Chief of Global Football Development at the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).
This doesn’t really solve anything. There will always be tight offside calls no matter where you shift the detection points. All that’s going to happen is VAR was trying to work out if the attackers toes are 1mm in front of the defender to now working out if the attackers heel is 1mm behind the defenders toe
Personally, if they want to simplify the offside just measure it from the feet/the ground instead of trying to line up someone’s head with someone’s heel. Or if they insist on adding some complexity to the rule you only measure offside from the body part that’s made the pass/scored the goal.
Otherwise it’s just another rule change where half the people who are arguing a decision don’t know the rule has changed vs the other half who don’t fully understand it anyway and ultimately doesn’t make a difference
This doesn’t really solve anything. There will always be tight offside calls no matter where you shift the detection points. All that’s going to happen is VAR was trying to work out if the attackers toes are 1mm in front of the defender to now working out if the attackers heel is 1mm behind the defenders toe
Personally, if they want to simplify the offside just measure it from the feet/the ground instead of trying to line up someone’s head with someone’s heel. Or if they insist on adding some complexity to the rule you only measure offside from the body part that’s made the pass/scored the goal.
Otherwise it’s just another rule change where half the people who are arguing a decision don’t know the rule has changed vs the other half who don’t fully understand it anyway and ultimately doesn’t make a difference