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Originally Posted by getbak
Exactly, the rule is to prevent a player cherry-picking and never leaving the zone. It was never meant to be measured down to the millimetre -- and for the first 90 or so years of the rule, it was perfectly-fine being left up to the linesmen.
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I totally understand the 'just get every call right' mentality but when 80% of the game is already left up to the refs discretion and we're told getting it wrong is just part of the game, I just don't see how or why offsides are the hill to die on for this argument. The whole thing is silly to me