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I do agree - in this instance the lino I think would have been nearly 100% sure she was correct - she's generally excellent - and probably should be allowed to flag but so often it's tighter than it looks and woe betide any lino who is sure they are correct and flags and gets it wrong.

But that's a still image and he's still only one yard off - a millisecond earlier or later and he's onside because the players are going in opposite directions. When Neville and Carragher ran the line for Sky a year or two back they were the hardest to call and they invariably got it wrong.

That's not how the semi- automated system works. Once the play has completed the VAR operators decide if there is a close offside call - if it's obvious to the naked eye they call it, if not they refer to the semi-automated system which calls it. It's only really there to save drawing lines.

And thats the bottom line - no one has come up with a way for the situation to be resolved if we keep VAR - linos have to err on the side of caution and being totally accurate is virtually impossible so the choice is either a) continue as we are maybe trusting the lino to flag a touch more...

So how would you resolve it? If we stick with VAR and it can rule on offsides, what should the Lino do? If there is doubt - and there normally is - you have to play on. If he/she flags incorrectly for offside when a player is clean through on goal in the last minute everyone would go beserk and...

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that, if you have VAR, then you have to delay the flag if there is any doubt otherwise there's no point having it. If you are 100% sure then of course flag. In this particular case although it was fairly obvious, because (if i remember rightly) it...