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However, the reduction of postmatch debate, the creeping use of algorithmic definition in other areas of
human activity, and the potential for diminution of critical thinking skills are all points of serious concern. This
is not an easy dilemma to resolve, and certainly not
necessarily one that can be decided by an algorithm.
Finally, before substituting automated rule interpretation for human endeavor, administrators should very
carefully consider what the original rule was intended to
achieve. The offside rule was originally intended to stop
an unseemly scrum developing in each goalmouth, with
the game reduced to ugly hoofs from one to the other.
The application of the offside rule was never intended to
be a passion-killing narrative destroyer (it can only
dampen the crowd's visceral instinctive reaction to a
goal, and it can only disallow goals) just because someone's toenail was in an offside position (the outcome of
micromeasurement) rather than being, in the opinion
of the referee, someone seeking to gain an unfair
advantage. Moreover, VAR has not removed controversy:
arguments still persist, and if possible the situation has
been made worse with the handball rule now depending
on a context-sensitive interpretation of "unnatural body
position." There remains much to be said in favor of
"jumpers for goalposts"...

Author Information
Rahul Singh, Ankur Ravindra Bodhe, Pranav Kanuparthi,
and Aditya Ananthakrishnan were at RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India.
Jeremy Pitt is Professor of Intelligent and Self-Organizing Systems at Imperial College London, U.K. Email: j.
pitt@imperial.ac.uk.

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