Whoever decided a toenail being offside isn’t a legitimate reason to overturn a given goal just understands the offside rule far worse than most non-footy interested men and women due to partisanship and vested personal interests in the disadvantaged side of the overturned ruling.
Fixed that for you.
That offside decision was terrible.
No, it just took too long to check.
Deciding that somebody is offside is offside means you don't understand football? I wasn't aware there was a rule that said that a certain amount of offside is ok but not too much.
This. Can’t go around making photo-finishes obsolete in cycling and start handing the wins by means of arbitrary favouritism under the principle of “the lad made a good effort and it really did seem to me he won till I saw the top down photo, but I’m gonna go with my first instincts cause I’m the nostalgic sort who doesn’t actually care about who won in this Post-Truth Trumpian world”.
I am against VAR totally, but if we were to go for it, I would introduce error margins for decisions. Offsides above a certain distance say,10-20 cm are considered obvious and overturned. Anything tighter than that has to stand with ref's call.
So we need an additional VAR to decide if it is in the 10-20cm range or the 20cm and three millimeters range, right?
I’m all in favour of the VAR, I just want a time limit on the decisionmaking because it interrupts the flow of a match. Hence I would introduce a time limit - in the absence of swift and accurate technology to provide an objective ruling, which exists - such that if a clear corrective call cannot be made within 30s of the VAR check, then the initial ruling stands. Hence IMO the tech should be made to rule faster with the same or higher degree of accuracy as today.
With one exemption: fouls committed that physically and deliberately could have harmed other players. After 30s play should have commenced, but the investigation should continue for a few minutes if needed. In that case the free kick, card or penalty might not have been awarded in due time before the game continued, but yellow and red cards can still be handed out in time to make an impact on the remainder of the match.