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There really needs to be a buffer zone for offsides calls.
There is no skill here, the defender didn't make a conscious attempt to play the attacker offside by 5mm, it's just pure luck.
I'd argue that any advantage an attacker gets inside 30cm is negligible, and hardly worth all this effort to penalise.
At, it feels like we roll the dice to see if a goal stands based on an offside call that neither player knew anything about.
Your proposal doesn’t change anything other than create an even more arbitrary point to argue about.
So that just moves the line 30cm. It doesn't solve the problem. Imagine this exact same picture except Kean is 31cm past the last defender, the line is drawn at 30cm from the last man. Same problem
Sure in this case that would make this one definitively onside, but like I said there will be a time when a striker is ~30cm past the last defender and the line drawing becomes an issue again
But at least you can say he was well offside, and it would be much easier to take. It changes the narrative and players/fans will feel much less hard done by with tight calls.
"if my team had a goal disallowed because the was 31cm offside, it would be much easier to take.