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When the Premier League introduced semi-automated offside technology, we thought we would lose the offside debate.
We have largely done that, but there is still a big problem with how decisions are presented to the masses.
Take Newcastle United’s goal against Manchester City on Saturday. To the naked eye, Bruno Guimarães appeared to be directly ahead of Ruben Dias in the lead-up to Harvey Barnes’ goal. But after applying the technique, the goal stopped.
Then on Sunday, Gabriel Gudmundsson’s toe appeared to be inside the VAR offside line before Lucas Nmecha scored the opening goal of Leeds United’s match against Aston Villa. Once again, the goal was awarded.
New technology was supposed to eliminate all this. Gone are the hand-drawn lines superimposed on a TV picture, replaced by gorgeous animation. But this was not always the case.
A large part of it has to do with the unknown level of tolerance, or margin of error, added to the technology used in the Premier League.
In every other competition, offside is calculated to the millimeter; In the English Premier League there is a 5cm allowance which is actually the width of the green line. Gudmundsson was sidelined as his foot was in it.
Guimarães was also just ahead of Dias but within tolerance.
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