ZeroTheHero
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Ah, but you are missing the bit where the powers that be have decided that the body is t-shirt shaped - you can legally score with the top part of your arm apparently. So what you and I might call a part of an arm is actually a sort of droopy bit of shoulder/body. If you can score with it, then it can be offside.Actually got around to looking up the latest offside law as per the FA website
The gist of it is probably as understood ie - any part of the head, body or feet is nearer to the opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent, however there are caveats and the one that makes the Bamford one even more baffling is "The hands and arms of all players, including the goalkeepers, are not considered".
In which case, surely he was not technically or actually in an offside position?
So they somehow managed to see from the VAR footage in all of it's between frames, was the ball still in contact with the foot glory that a minuscule part of that bit of droopy shoulder was about 2mm in front of a fairly arbitrary line.
No, me neither.