FORMER Tottenham star Alan Hutton has praised a game-changing rule that could bring more goals to the Premier League.
Fifa have proposed a law that could massively help strikers.
With the new rule in place, an attacker’s entire body would have to be beyond the last defender for it to be deemed offside.
Fifa are set to trial the change in pre-season clashes in Netherlands, Italy and Sweden.
Arsene Wenger is believed to have been key in pushing the testing of the idea forward from his role as Fifa’s Chief of Global Football Development.
It would see the numbers of goals chalked off decrease and hopefully lead to less frequent time-consuming VAR checks.
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Several controversial goals last season were disallowed due to marginal offsides.
Manchester United’s controversial 2-1 derby win over Manchester City in January is one of the goals to have triggered a potential rule change due to the calls for the laws to be clearer.
Bruno Fernandes netted after Marcus Rashford appeared to be offside in the build-up.
Hutton, who played for Spurs and Aston Villa, believes it could help the game.
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He told Football Insider: “It’s a game-changer, there will definitely be more goals within the game, no doubt about that.
“Obviously this favours the attacker, they get maybe that yard on a defender and as a defender, especially if you were a centre-half, it will be very difficult, as you’re going to have to hold such a high line.
“But I do get it, there’s such a grey area at times and when VAR was introduced with offside rules, we were talking about the width of the hair.
“It will be much easier to differentiate between onside and offside now, and a correct decision will be made.
“There will certainly be more goals and more excitement.”
The Premier League are currently against bringing in semi-automated offsides as seen at the World Cup.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
