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I guessed that

Yes 2 defenders

2-0 down . 10 mins left and let’s put on 2 defenders. Genius

Salah’s head has checked out and is already in Riyadh counting money I think

Him and ten others tbf

Calvert Lewin is a decent player when he’s not perma injured

Fuck all to do with him. He was blocked off while Alexander Arnold stood and watched the guy score

More shit defending

They had to check one really. Nobody else was anywhere near to being offside. Don’t they have eyes ?

What the hell took so long with that check?

Not even close to being on. Didn’t even need to draw silly lines for that. Liverpool got away with that one

Because VAR is only good for spotting toes offside and pretty useless for the big decisions

More entertaining than mine but less effective at getting points

If they were operating a 30cm margin of error that offside call yesterday would never have been made

No there isn’t. They’re measuring millimetres.

And with a recognised margin of error built in it could be over 99%. As you pointed out the offside rule was never brought in to look for players millimetres ahead of a defender but to stop people just standing up near the goal.

I’m saying precisely that. Before VAR we had the benefit of doubt to the attacker (supposedly). They have already changed parts of the offside and handball rules to benefit attackers so why not. The offside rule was brought in to prevent goal hanging after all not to look for excuses to stop teams scoring goals which is the object of the game. Or we could acknowledge it’s a sport played by and refereed by humans and just go back to that. I’ve been watching football since the 1960s and this shit is killing my love for it.

You take what has been reckoned by scientists to be the margin of error and expand the lines by that much each way. Attacker back, defender forward. If they overlap at all then it should be classed as level and onside.If they don’t then offside with the error rate already accounted for. Yes you would still be using technology but the margin for error would already be built in so less chance of very close calls being wrong. The previous principle was the attacker should get the benefit of any doubt in close calls after all. I would still scrap var as it’s killing the game though.

It’s not though. Everybody knows ( except you) that there is a small margin for error. It may be consistently applied but that doesn’t mean it’s consistently correct. It should be scrapped or amended to change only decisions that are blatantly incorrect. Drawing lines looking for millimetres of difference in positions of moving players should not even come into it when it is known the technology is not perfect. In all honesty the mancs would have been more robbed by yet another shit handball decision that the offside call

Exactly my point. What happened to the solution of drawing thicker lines and if they touch then giving the benefit to the attacker? I can’t say for sure it was onside just as we can’t be certain it was off. Cases like that should go with the onfield decision

Except it doesn’t . It’s been shown for a couple of years there is a small margin for error. A few inches maybe but it’s not 100%

So you’ve closely studied it all and decided there was absolutely no margin for error. Well done because that’s more than scientists have been able to do. Or are you just ignoring the photograph in the article that shows it’s maybe not absolutely certain after all?

The ref gave that in real time though

Debatable. The frame rates are not good enough to be 100% sure when it’s down to such fine margins. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13336073/VAR-Aaron-Wan-Bissaka-Man-United-FA-Cup.html

Or maybe refs could just do their job properly