The Premier League are pushing for FIFA to allow a ‘margin of error’ on tight offside calls after a fresh number of controversies this season.
Mike Riley, head of the PGMOL, is also looking for feedback from the Dutch FA after the Eredivisie ignored FIFA’s zero tolerance approach and instead adopted a 10cm ‘linesman’s call’, the Mail reports.
The system sees the VAR judge offsides using two 5cm lines and, if they touch, the final decision remains with the on-field officials.
A similar idea was proposed by Riley to the Premier League earlier this year but they were then informed by FIFA that they would not support such an approach, after they took the reins on the law from the IFAB.
FIFA’s stance is that ‘offside is offside’ but there continues to be plenty of controversy surrounding the incidents, such as Jordan Henderson’s last-gasp winner for Liverpool against Everton ruled out with Sadio Mane’s shoulder being mere millimeters offside.
The Premier League has to propose any law changes before next Sunday for it to be discussed at the annual business meeting later this year - and any agreed changes would not come into effect until next season.
Offsides are expected to be on the IFAB agenda anyway, with Arsene Wenger, FIFA’s head of global football development, keen to bring in his own rule where a player is onside as long as any part of their body that can score is level with the last defender.
