McGrath ~ that would be for the coaches & the players to work on. Whatever resulted during the inevitable transition period, which modern playing techniques would surely find a way round, would have to be an improvement on the present inordinate dog's-breakfast of a frustrating, over-complex, widely misunderstood, inconsistently & often [as replays constantly show] inaccurately enforced rule.

There are, I repeat, precedents. When Moscow Dynamo toured UK just after WWii, no offside was used at that time in Soviet football; so the rule was set aside by agreement for all matches. The result was an unprecedented excitement at the brilliance of their co-operative short-passing game; which, by general agreement, just would not have worked if offside had been in force. This suspension of the rule produced, in short, fast, exciting, creative play, the very opposite of goal-hanging.