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Exactly, so you’ve proved the point it’s not binary because that part of the law is an interpretation.

Offside is only binary if you had the technology to precisely tell you the exact moment the ball leaves the player - is that 1mm off their boot, 0.5mm? And at that exact moment you have to map the exact point of the body you could score with, so where does a shoulder start and arm end exactly...

It can’t be though, a ball compresses when it hits the boot, it’s contact with the foot or head cannot be accurately measured so the exact moment it ‘leaves’ a player is a best guess looking at a frame of a camera shot. It’s therefore not black and white because the technology has a margin of...

The City offside should have been fine. They HAVE to adopt cricket’s approach that marginal calls stay with the onfield decision. It cannot be that precise because you cannot be 100% when the ball actually fully leaves the boot - 1 frame either way could be the difference. Yesterday should have...