Staggeringly simple solution to a footy problem ..

britboy4321

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Off-side decisions are often inaccurate

You can mow 'stripes' into pitches. Like this
Mower-Stripes.jpg


Why don't they always mow just a load of horizontal thin (Like, 1 metre or half a metre) stripes rightdown the pitch, as standard?

Reason: It will make it infinitely easier for the linesman to see if a player is offside - as he will have a pitch-width 'line' to work from rather then the current 'kinda estimate' flawed system.


Anyone see any reason why not? Or have I actually potentially come up with a half-decent solution for something for the first time ever...?
 
they often do but the stripes are too wide, to make this work you would need very narrow stripes which would be hard to do and impossible to track over the full width of pitch with a quick glance
 
I'm sure I read somewhere a couple of years ago that one of the premier league groundsman is told not to mow straight lines (must be circles/diagonals) for exactly this reason, so their strikers have less chance of getting called offside. Of course, it would apply to the opposition strikers as well so not sure where the advantage is. Can't remember which team it was now.
 
Also the striping effect is a lot harder to see at ground level compared to the elevated view you see on TV.
 
Hmm offise decisions are often wrong for a reason. The human cannot be looking in one direction and in another direction at the same time...

How can you watch someone on the half way line kicking a ball and simultaneously be watching the attacking player who could be what, 30-40 yards further forward of them to decide that the player was in line with the defender when the ball was played?


Ive said this before and i maintain this stance that Pffside as it is currently implemented is impossible to robustly track to maintain 100% accuracy on the decisions. It often comes down to pure guesswork sadly.

The easiest way to fix it would be to scrap the rule and implement something else, like Hockey offisde where the players casn only enter a zone after the puck. giving the officials the ability to watch a single line and then decide if the puck/player entered the zone first.

Cutting the grass different or adding stripes does not fix the core problem with the rule, that it is physically impossible with the human physiology being unable to be looking in 2 directions at one time.
 
arnt pitches 'bowed' for water drainage so you wouldnt see the lines on the other half of the pitch.

im sure when i went on a tour of old trafford they said fergie had the teams dugout moved higher because he couldnt see the players feet on the other side of the pitch.
 
the offside rule problem can only be solved 1 way, using instant replays.

it is impossible for a person to look at the person playing the pass and the back line at the same time unless both of them are within 10-15 yards of each other.
 
utajoker said:
arnt pitches 'bowed' for water drainage so you wouldnt see the lines on the other half of the pitch.

im sure when i went on a tour of old trafford they said fergie had the teams dugout moved higher because he couldnt see the players feet on the other side of the pitch.
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Yeah it is at Old Trafford but I don't know about anywhere else.

If you stand on the touchline one side you can't see the other side.
 
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