From daylight offside to countdown clocks and VAR expansion, football’s lawmakers are reshaping the rules, but are they improving the game or just moving the arguments?
The daylight offside idea is interesting but you nailed the core problem, it just shifts where the argument happens. Instead of debating mm-level VAR lines, we'll be arguing about what counts as "daylight." I dunno if there's a perfect solution here. The real issue is that VAR turned offside from a judgment call into geometry, and changing the rule doesn't fix that underlying shift in how we approach the game.
That’s exactly where I land on it. The frustration hasn’t really been offside itself, it’s the shift from football judgement to forensic measurement.
Daylight might move the line, but it doesn’t change the mindset that every decision has to be “provable” rather than sensible. I’m not convinced any law tweak fixes that unless we also rethink how VAR is used ⚽
The daylight offside idea is interesting but you nailed the core problem, it just shifts where the argument happens. Instead of debating mm-level VAR lines, we'll be arguing about what counts as "daylight." I dunno if there's a perfect solution here. The real issue is that VAR turned offside from a judgment call into geometry, and changing the rule doesn't fix that underlying shift in how we approach the game.
That’s exactly where I land on it. The frustration hasn’t really been offside itself, it’s the shift from football judgement to forensic measurement.
Daylight might move the line, but it doesn’t change the mindset that every decision has to be “provable” rather than sensible. I’m not convinced any law tweak fixes that unless we also rethink how VAR is used ⚽