I think it would be terrible. It would encourage more direct football, and be the end of the through ball (love a throughball). It would be big forwards trying to win the ball in the area.
I don't think there's much wrong with the offside rule. It's not perfect at all, but the changes that were made in the last 15 years changed the game massively, from Greece and AC Milan v Juventus in 03 and 04 to all the interesting different styles we've seen since then - Barca and Spain's tiki taka, Germany's counterattacking, Leicester's sucker punching to the title, and so on.
What IS a problem, and what is destroying the fun in football, is VAR with it's ittybitty nitpicking over where a winger's armpit is. Go back to the lino's eyesight and tell TV to fecking stop analysing offsides for ten minutes and talk about the game instead at halftime and on the highlight shows. That's all that's needed.
BTW, this is one of my favourite ever throughballs. Silva to Milner vs Everton in 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4jp2JIbHnU
Originally Posted by lardy
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