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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Soccer purists would object, but the game probably would become more popular, in the USA especially, IF they relaxed the offsides rule and enabled more offense to happen.[/quote]

Basically you're saying dumb the game down for an American audience that can't understand the game outside of goals being scored.[/quote]

It wouldn't take much to do better. What's crazy is an arm or a foot being offside is offsides to disallow a goal. With ALL the tech, they'd do a lot better to give a wider definition rather than what they enforce now. Make it the feet, not body part and that would be a vast improvement.[/quote]

An arm being "offside" is not an offense.  Neither is a "finger" as another poster mentioned, so, if you have seen this called, that is pretty crazy. Google Law 11 and read up.[/quote]

I guess you've never seen VAR.[/quote]

Can you post a YouTube clip of VAR calling offside for an arm?

Here you go if you were wondering...

A player is in an offside position if:
any part of the head, body or feet is in the opponents’ half (excluding the halfway line) and
any part of the head, body or feet is nearer to the opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent

The hands and arms of all players, including the goalkeepers, are not considered. For the purposes of determining offside, the upper boundary of the arm is in line with the bottom of the armpit.[/quote]

Pretty much any match with VAR from the World Cup to the Gold Cup to Euros you often see an arm or hand or part of foot nullify a goal -- those rulings ruin the flow of the game and make it easy to change the channel ... Regardless ... They should totally loosen offsides rules up and reward play that's "close enough". I mean that's how it's called in 99% of matches without VAR -- although the humans should be more liberal with it and only call clear and obvious offsides -- like make it where both feet are over or something.[/quote]

Fine. I'm not arguing that changing the rule might help create for goals but I don't watch soccer for the goals. 0-0 games are just as exciting to me as 3-3 games. What I'm arguing is that you do NOT "often see an arm or hand" nullify a goal...because it is not an offside offense.  You may see part of a foot because that IS an offside offense. [/quote]

And I'm arguing making soccer offsides rules a bit more liberal in favor of offense would improve the popularity of the game overall, especially in the USA.[/quote]

The research shows that implementing the 'daylight' version of the offside rule would increase scoring. Not but my much but still. More goals and fewer offsides calls in general would make the viewing experience 'better' Which should increase the popularity of the game. [/quote]

The viewing experience for people who only see goals in a game [/quote]

Correct. We're trying to increase viewership. That could be done via people who only see goals in a game. Glad you can see that![/quote]

How about ladies in skimpy outfits on the sidelines?
Puppy races at halftime?

Dumb it down to satisfy those who can't bring their intelligence up[/quote]

Cheerleaders and halftime shows are mainstays in other sports -- BUT I think easing up on offsides and maybe calling more fouls/sending players off temporarily (like the penalty box in hockey) would be positive changes.

Ironically, all this great defense ONLY tends to lead to penalty shoot outs -- which ironically -- while good TV -- make it way too easy to score AFTER it's way too hard for 120 minutes![/quote]

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