Dave ~ why, diving; and players' hairstyles; & wags; & refs' & linesmen's defective eyesight generally: plenty to talk about without persisting in ruining the flow and atmosphere of the game with outdated & otiose hangovers from the game's very infancy...

I mean, seriously: the traditional rules get altered & modified all the time: I recall {& I was a goalkeeper 60 years ago} when a goalkeeper was fair game for shoulder-charging into the net as he was off-balance while catching the ball ~ now it's practically a foul to look at him from any less than 5 yards away; you could backpass for the goalkeeper to catch or pick up; sliding tackles used to be respected as skilful ~ now they are liable to bring a red card. All these alterations {except perhaps that goalkeepers are now grotesquely over-protected}, I think it would be generally agreed, have improved matters rather than the opposite.

I genuinely think getting rid of offside would too. Surely it would be worth trying, worldwide, for an experimental season, followed by an online symposium of all interested parties as to whether it would then be revived or not ~ Followed by a definitive decision by FIFA?