Level is not offside. His shoulder was level with the West Ham defenders shoulder.
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You're like Johnathon Pearse arguing with goal line technology.
If all similar calls are called the same, I'm fine with it. Time will tell if that's the case though.
Correct call, great decision and exactly why football needs VAR.
VAR
VAR being stupid
It was his upper chest/ shoulder area that was offside.
It wasn't level, it was ever so slightly ahead. If it was level it wouldn't have been ruled.
I agree it's absurd to disallow it on such small margins, but offside is offside. There will be many more like this until the offside rule itself changes.
They knew the rules before the season started. If decisions are as consistent and pernickety as today's then no one will complain.
What do you do? Say 10 millimeters offside should be ok?
Another booking for Mahrez missed.
If this is the route we're going, every goal should be checked by VAR. As long as its consistent.
Sterling ruled offside? That's ridiculous, if they are going to call things that close there will be tons of disallowed goals this season.
It is offside, albeit super tight but offside nonetheless.
Can VAR take the other two goals off them as well please
Rules are rules. Blame the rules if you want. It's offside. Now need VAR to retroactively cancel City's first two, and we have a game
Every goal will be checked.
Only if it starts an attacks rather than continues one or if possession changes to the other team
So they canWhy does the premier league season start so early compared to the rest of europe?
Stop being magnanimous in victory
Watch that decision cost City points now.VAR getting the loudest cheer
That should've been a goal for WH.
West Ham dont have much speed do they? are they missing anyone?
Eh.. they will be. That's sort of the whole point.
They seriously need to introduce a margin of error for this. It was arbitrarily decided by where the VAR decided to identify the end of each layer's shoulder. Umpires call as per cricket springs to mind.
We can rebuild him
Not a good comparison for me. How do you even judge where the shoulders end and the arm starts on camera? That's never going to be accurate down to the millimetre, while the call itself was so tight.
VAR will check every goal for offsides and the like. Offsides are black and white, there's no "oh but it was close and pretty much level". Pretty much is not quite there is it? Offside, even by millimeters, is offside.
A yellow!
Of course, for WHU.
Of course, for WHU.
Almost for West Ham
yeah, but what are small margins? that then makes the decisions by VAR subjective. If VAR is to be used, then it has to make objective decisions. Thus, an offside with even a micrometer should be given as an offside
Balbuena goes into the book for a cynical challenge. City have had about five of those so far.
A West Ham player is the first to be booked today. Mike Dean. 
Every goal is checked
The offside rule really needs to be reworked, it's ridiculous currently. Pretty sure it was intended to stop goal hanging, not to check if an attacker was 2cm in front of the defender
That wasn't the norm this season as there was no World Cup nor European Championship otherwise the CL final would have been played earlier
What is he supposed to do then, run back to his own half? He has to be behind the ball and he was. Otherwise teams could basically defend by running away from play.
ThisLook at those idiots celebrating the fact they are losing 0-2 instead of 0-3
Was it even comparing the exact same part of the body on the two players? What is the part of body that needs to be measured even?
I have questions
I have questions
How is a hand a goal scoring part of the body? that too negligibly offside. Such annoying BS from VAR.