While Fifa’s chief of global development focuses on offside toes and noses, VAR needs a helping hand somewhere else
Five years ago, Fifa’s chief of global development, Arsène Wenger, outlined his bold plans to change the offside law.
“The most difficult [issue] that people have [with VAR] is the offside rule,” he said. “You have had offsides by a fraction of a centimetre, literally by a nose. It is the time to do this quickly.