VAR Discussion Thread | 2024/25

[GH64]

When was this 5cm rule enacted, and why doesn’t anybody else know? We’ve been told, like you say, that offside isn’t subjective, but now it is.

What a farce, once again finding a new law to allow for obvious cheating.

I can remember it once before when St Marcus “scored” v Dippers, but it then disappeared until Saturday. It’s meant to favour the attacker when it’s a close call, so give the goal if they are level & you can be slightly wrong, but the long VAR review suggests that here they spent ages to work out whether it was 4 or 6 cm offside, which wasn’t the point of the rule.
The rule is now back in the box till needed again.

 

[give it to gordon]

Don't recall this tolerance level being mentioned before

First I've heard of it

 

[Roachy]

Don't get me wrong. I do not want Var full stop but if we have to have them then they need to be open and honest. It clearly isn't an open and honest process, we'll it is open, open to manipulation.

I was open minded to begin with, hoping for an improvement on the on field refereeing that we had prior to it's introduction. Even the sceptics who doubted they'd ever be any skulduggery involved must now see how badly wrong they were.

 

[waspish]

If there is a ofside tolerance level then that can be manipulated! I’d want all premier clubs to know to be told that the tolerance level is in favour of the striker attacker! Not change it for other games for certain teams, they can’t just make it the tolerance level the other way so a goal is disallowed but that 5cm tolerance level! And I hope all clubs has all the data from every game to assessed all the var decisions..

 

[Gordyola]

No mention of any tolerance level here and which way is the tolerance applied? If both players are in the tolerance level how is determined ?

Semi-automated offside technology: What you need to know

Ahead of semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) being used in the Premier League this weekend, here is more information as to how it will work

www.premierleague.com

 

[Longdarnit Blue]

Interesting that the Oxford dictionary has one of the following definitions for tolerance :

“ the ability or willingness to tolerate the existence of opinions or behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with.”

The dippers obviously get at least a week of intolerance.

 

[cheekybids]

The tolerance level is pure gaslighting, no one would complain if it was 5cm cos we wouldn’t fucking know, yet you could see with your naked eye, unless they are now saying 5cm on the VAR computer screen which is probably scaled at about 6 ft.

Now why is it showing Dias jumping & drawing the line on the arm.

 

[Coljj]

Far superior and dare I say transparent UEFA VAR offside replay.
Transitions from live action to render to dead in line with the players then back up to live action.

Compare to the Premier Leagues replay shit show vs Newcastle.

 

[TheBeautifulGame]

Video - dd5cadc4

Video was uploaded to Streamin.me on Nov 18, 2025.

streamin.me

This match determined who advanced to the WC automatically and who went to the playoff.

Little push waiting for a header in his own half leads to a goal 20 seconds later. Referee was right in front of the incident on the pitch and saw nothing!!

Then after a goal is scored VAR intervenes, they bring it back to the foul that occurred 20 seconds before to disallow the goal that followed. FARCICAL!