I think daylight would be better than the current situation because

personally I don't think people want to see goals ruled out because some body part happens to be half an inch in front of the defender or because one player is sticking and arm or a leg out. I think it would see more goals currently being ruled out stand which would be a good thing.

But yes it wouldn't completely eradicate the current issue because if you continue to use a narrow line with no margin for error you are still going to get that sort of anomaly.

I think they have calculated that (and forgive me as I don't have the numbers to hand so these may not be 100% right) if you expand the lines to 10cm and allow anything where there is overlap then something like 10 of the 16 goals that have been disallowed for these types of marginal offsides this season would have stood, if you make it 15cm then about 2 more and if its 20cm then it was another 1 (or something like that). the conclusion being that widening the lines to 10cm would have seen about 2/3rds of the more controversially disallowed goals stand. I think that would be better.

Posted By: Jim, Feb 19, 09:57:36