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Yes, but if he touches it with his right foot he is off. With Dunk's "goal", his left foot was well behind the rest of his body, and the last defender.

This got me thinking about how many times linos incorrectly call a ball out of play. I suspect there are plenty of times the ball "looks out" as it rolls across the line, but is actually still in.

Or what about the part of the body that actually touches the ball needs to be in front of all parts of the last defender? i.e if you head it in it, the line is drawn from your head, if you touch with your left foot, it is the left foot etc.

if a club cannot field the required cameras to provide competent VAR...the PL installs it on their behalf and deducts the cost from their prize money / TV income.

We have the richest league in the world, with money to burn. The PL should be insisting all clubs instal state of the art AI assisted camera systems all around the pitch that can check more accurately whether balls are out of play, offside lines etc. Also, I would quite like to see a computer...

But at the moment the system is still subjective. The VAR (who is a person or group of people) decide when to pause the action (subjective, as there are freeze frames showing ball may have already been kicked by Gross yesterday) and where to draw the various lines (what part of Dunk to choose?)...

Also time for VAR for offsides to be binned or redefined. The system is flawed, and effectively no better than the linesman's flag

What I don't understand is why VAR couldn't say to the ref, "go to the monitor and check the foul, we will look at whether the ball was out or offside". I do think the system would work better,if the control of the system was in the hands of the ref. E.g the ref should be able to say, I think...