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Originally Posted by Locke
And thats ridiculous enough, but what is the explanation here? Mane's elbow-hair 'breaks the plane?'
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The whole thing is a joke. Literally no one at any level can argue this makes the game better or more fair, but here we are. They pencil in that line at one pixel width and make their determination from that. It would be much better if they had one review of the “incident” in half speed and had to determine from that look whether the player was offside/fouled. If you can’t tell from half speed, it’s not a foul, or offside or whatever.
To me there are so many factors. Camera angle, when the ball is passed, which body parts have to pass the line and where that line is formed. It’s all up in the air. There’s no value in calling players offside by a shoelace.