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.

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.