Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
This is the still they showed. Are you seriously telling me that this is clear?



I think this is where VAR needs some kind of “linesman’s call” as they do in cricket.

The first thing they should do before they check the goal is ask the linesman would they have flagged offside or not. Depending on the linesman’s answer, they go with that and have to see a clear & obvious error to overturn it.

So in this case, if hte linesman said onside, it would be given as a goal and i really dont think anyone would argue if that was given as onside.

In cricket, umpires call works on the basis that if less then half the ball is predicted to hit the stumps, they go with the on field decision. There must be a way here to build in some leeway so that you dont get calls where Pepe’s big toe is offside by 1mm.