FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, has lent his support to introducing the ‘daylight’ principle to the offside law.
Video Assistant Referees (VAR) decisions have caused a lot of
controversy in the Premier League, with a few goals chalked off because
of very fine offside margins.
FIFA’s chief of global football development, Arsene Wenger, last week that the law should be changed so that a player is onside if any part of their body that can score a goal is behind or level with the relevant defender.
Infantino has now spoken in favour of Wenger’s proposal.
“I’m certainly in favour of discussing a new way of looking at the
offside rule, to see if it can help, because I think the issue is more
an issue of understanding,” he said at the International Football
Association Board, the game’s law-making body.
“Some of (the decisions) are very, very close and it’s difficult for
the people who are watching to see whether it’s offside, so we have to
look at whether we can make the offside rule clearer by having light in
between.”