give it to gordon
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Well, they were forced to change something and did,
while still being able to interpret the word "immediately" the way they like:
'Where a player in an offside position immediately impacts on an opponent who has deliberately played the ball, the match officials should prioritise challenging an opponent for the ball, and thus the offside offence of "interfering with an opponent by impacting on the opponent's ability to play the ball" should be penalised.'
So villa v Newcastle would now be disallowed as he immediately impacts the defender into slicing his clearance. Or isnt that immediately enough ? As a few seconds before he was off side so not immediately I guess. But if the linesman had flagged him off side the defender wont have sliced his clear as the whistle would have gone.