

Ben Clark
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🚨 The Canadian Premier League will conduct a 'daylight offside' trial in cooperation with FIFA when its season starts on April 4. The trial is led by FIFA and approved by IFAB. It is designed to favour attackers. 🗣️ FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development Arsene Wenger: "This is an important pilot. By testing this new interpretation in a professional competition, we can better understand its impact, including in terms of improving clarity and the flow of the game and promoting attacking play. "We look forward to analysing the results of the trial phase. We thank the Canadian Premier League and the Canadian Soccer Association for their willingness to support FIFA with this pilot and for providing their competition." An attacking player will be considered onside if at least one part of their body that can legitimately be used to score in line with (or behind) the second-to-last defender. A player will only be ruled offside if there is a gap – or daylight' – between themselves and the defender. In effect, attackers must be fully beyond the second last defending player to be penalised. FIFA add by "introducing a clearer visual threshold, the trial is aimed at restoring a greater attacking advantage and boosting the flow of matches."

Project Hail Mary is doing so well at the global box office that there’s talk of turning it into a franchise with a sequel. bit.ly/4uWmHb4


Queues to get into Old Trafford tonight are horrendous. A lot of people bound to miss kick-off here. #MUWomen





Really poor half by Man Utd against ten men but really reinforced what’s needed in the summer: full-backs, central midfield, winger. Being able to really stretch the game would have helped a lot tonight.

Benjamin Sesko is such a perfectionist he had double-glazed windows fitted to his home to block out the air traffic noise from nearby Manchester Airport so his sleeping would improve #mufc thesun.co.uk/sport/38383136…

NEW: FA wants to trial ‘coach’s challenge’ for subjective VAR decisions Idea is that coaches would be able to have two unsuccessful challenges per game for fouls or handballs. thetimes.com/sport/football…

Wondering what football would look like under Wenger's "daylight" offside law? Raheem Sterling would be onside in this example, the heel playing him onside. NB: You still need the offside lines, and you still have marginal decisions.