⚽️ What is the point of offsides? It’s to prevent the game from devolving into constant lobbing of longballs to people hanging out near the goal, right?
The amount of investment that goes into checking offsides on setpieces and other near-goal play feels like a waste. #mastodonfc
@todd I think officials prefer it this way though. If you try define it as gaining an advantage by being in an offside position it becomes a judgement call that’ll be examined to death any time there’s a 50/50 decision. Keeping it black and white like this protects the officials for the better probably.