DavieM
Well-Known Member
They are over-complicating it though by going on about phases. A player is either offside or not, they either interfere with play or not. Mount was offside and did interfere with play, so the goal was rightly ruled out. The issue was that there were a few more seconds (far from 30) of play and the decision was close. I don’t think people were prepared for the precision of VAR.
Remember the assistant ref's are told that if it's a really tight offside call they are to keep their flags down and let play continue and VAR will decide the correct decision so I would argue that VAR has worked as it should have with that offside goal.
Off course you might simply get to the stage where the assistant refs are going to really only call the obvious offsides because if they flag incorrectly, play has to stop and any subsequent goal is ruled out even if the player was well onside.