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They were sepcifically told as part of the guidance to referees (in Lancashire, at least) that they were not looking for toenails or kneecaps. The wording was, as close as I remember it, "If a player looks to be level, then he is level". I doubt any linesman would be insulted by being told...

Wrong. There are a lot of football supporters of other teams that I am happy to talk to. Not everyone is parochial and narrow minded.

Nope. People whose sole purpose in posting is to be rude, get a ban. (Politics is banned as well because it was causing too much friction.)

The Burnley board is moderated to stop gratuitous personal insults, so I wouldn't know.

Unfortunately you don't understand how linesmen do their job which is possibly the reason you don't understand what I am saying. Linesmen never keep their flag down and allow VAR to sort it out. That is not and never has been how it works. Linesmen give offside if their best estimate is...

But would it have been given offside if the lino had been using the old rule of level, as judged by the human eye, is onside? I don't actually know what the linesman does when it's too close to call. When we get these "lines drawn on the pitch" offsides, which very often don't lead to a goal...

That's the point. VAR would still check the linesman's opinion, but using a simple photo so that level still has the meaning it had before VAR. And it would give the linesman a sporting chance of getting it right.

The margin for error should be based on any common scenario. I reckon the number of goals scored by (and offsides given against) forwards who are sprinting towards the opposition goal, is reasonably common. Do you have an estimate of what the VAR offside margin for error might be?

You don't think so? The average TV camera shoots at 26 frames per second. The average footballer sprints at faster than 1 foot per 1/26 seconds, and his back foot moves even faster so if the defender is running out to catch a forward offside then his back foot will move more like 2 feet in...

With VAR, you can't be level in practice. The margin of error of the technology is at least a foot, but they still take a guess at who is a few inches forward.

Three things they need to do with VAR. 1. Go back to the old offside rule where level was onside, and judge it by eye from a photo, not by drawing lines. The new rule is designed to disallow goals where they would once have been legal, to slow down the celebrations of goals, and to force the...