FFS
I never mentioned about being behind the ball, thats ****ing obvious.
There is a line, it may move up and down the pitch but there is still a line. It is marked out by the last point, heel, foot whatever, of the 2nd closest defensive player to the defended goal. Yes understood that.
Using VAR they can take the video of the action and take it back when the ball is kicked FORWARD towards an attacking player (who is already in front of the ball).Then pause the video and superimpose the offside line onto the video to determine whether the attacking player is offside by being beyond the offside line . Still with me, I mean MoTD, Sky etc etc etc have been doing this for years in their analysis.
The VAR ref can then relay to the on field referee that the goal, penalty etc etc should be over turned as someone was offside.
So therefore with VAR you are either Onside or Offside. There is no grey area. Just like Hawkeye or goal line tech shows what side of the line the ball is.
Of course VAR is not instant like Goal line, but it should still be right 100% of the time (in theory)
except it's not that easy. you cant just rock up and know you've calibrated your system for the camera and get this right.
imo you are getting the the point where it's beyond the human eye.
look at tennis. you have not abandoned officials and just rely on bleeping lines. you have officals calling and right of review.
if you are going down to debating half an inch from 50 or 60 yards based on where you place the line then you've defeated the purpose.
just make the officials make the call and the review on appeal. if you don't appeal then don't review the var.
The worst case for me is a ref now just draws a box and sir if and you have no idea if he thinks it's a pen or not. He taps his ear price and shrugs like the game has nothing to do with him.
surely he must wave a pen shout off and then it's appealed by attacking team or he gives pen and that's appealed by defending team.
Imo var is being over used and is being poorly applied by trying to be over precise from tok far a distance and inconsistent angles.

