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But my point is a player could marginally be offside and receive the ball out wide, run with the ball down the wing for 3 or 4 seconds, cross it (5 seconds) have the shot saved rebounds back, played out wide again, crossed in and goal. Now the team who scored have scored a good 15 or 20 seconds...

So, say we took the time limit as an official ruling, if a player picks up the ball just inside the half and out wide (therefore as far away from the goal as he can receive it and offside to be an "issue") and he scores...if he took more than 5 seconds to do so then a review would not take place?

So the goal would be legit....despite an offside in the build up to it? The opposition manager would go MAD.

If you've watched ANY BT sport this season where Mark Halsey has been asked his opinions on certain decisions, after being shown NUMEROUS replays, you wouldn't be saying that :lolol: In one particular highlight Steve McManaman was going MENTAL at him. "How can you say he got it right!!!!????"...

Worse would be if the ball never went out of play between the offside and the goal. Ulloa receives the ball offside but not given, keeper saves, ball is played back, makes it all the way back to Kusczak who launches it long, it's knocked down and goal. It's chaos theory. The sequence of...

But there could have been an offside which was not given in the build up, say 10 passes before the goal. What happens then? the opposition argue it and the ref says "there was an offside 40 seconds ago so the goal is ruled out"?

EXACTLY. And that's ANNOYING in the worlds SLOWEST sport EVER. Imagine it in our lovely FREE-FLOWING FOOTER

Again a sport which is a play-by-play game with natural breaks, like tennis. Its a simple decision of "is it a wicket?" Offisdes however do not always lead to goals, however they can lead to the team progressing and eventually scoring. If there was areview system in place for ofisides there...

The problem is, in reality, it would be an absolute shambles. 1) Linesman will just let ANY offside go that they may have the SLIGHTEST fear about. If you were the linesman you would much rather let every piece of play go on and then be reviewed rather than being the "idiot" who raises his...

Tennis is a stuttered- point by point format. It couldn't be more different to football. Tennis is ideal for reviewing points. It has a natural stoppage. Football does not.

:lolol: Oh, you're serious.