BladesOnToast
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I like this observation.I think the bigger problem is with the off-side rule generally.
The Leeds forward wasn't hanging around in an of-side position waiting to gain an unfair advantage.
In this instance, if he'd have set off a split second later and been on-side, the opportunity to score would have been identical.
No defender in the world was going to be able to rescue the situation.
There's a parallel with LBW in cricket. If the ball is good enough to beat the bat and strike the pad in a manner which to the naked eye appears like it was going on to hit the wicket, does the nanometre's difference matter all that much? The bowler has done pretty much what they're meant to do and the batter has been beaten.
Not that I'm advocating doing away with DRS in cricket (where 99% per cent of the time it's great), just that most of the time in sport, the naked eye is good enough to tell if someone's adhered to or broken the spirit of the law or rule; technology is required to be absolutely certain if they've broken it according to the letter of the law - which is why we managed fine for all these years without VAR.