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Aug 5, 2022
3:31:12pm
Pepe Starter
This article explains my thoughts more articulately.

"while both goals were offside, it could be argued that because the infractions were so small neither Benzema nor Mbappé were gaining an obvious advantage. Generally, attacking play in football is cherished and encouraged; the strikers might have been technically in breach of the law but not its spirit."

"This addresses the controversies caused by the recent use of video assisted referee (VAR), whereby attackers have been penalised by the application of offside based on millimetre-wide infringements, rendering the whole notion of gaining an advantage to farcical and, ironically, unfair decisions." https://theconversation.com/amp/euro-2020-the-history-of-the-offside-rule-and-the-debates-that-have-raged-to-abolish-it-163117

As the article implies more strict offsides has always led to less attacking and we are using technology to make offsides more strict even if the rules haven’t changed.

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