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Much easier to put a sensor in the ball, as they did in the World Cup.

Every player must wear a belly button piercing with a chip in it, or a Prince Albert.

He's clearly not level with the defender though. His entire head and body is ahead of the defender. Only his trailing leg is level.

The law used to be that level was offside. Before it had to be 3 defenders, not 2. The law was also changed so that an attacker had to be interfering with play to be offside. It has changed several times in favour of the attacking player.

OK, ididnt know that. I hope it works.

Semi-automated offside relies on a sensor in the ball. It is tracked.

Clearly a wrong decision? On what criteria? What are you measuring and with what tolerance/margin of error to decide whether it is clearly wrong?

Yet we see situations regularly where the lino puts his flag up because he is "obviously" offside and VAR then shows the lino got it wrong. Offside is a factual decision based on the relative positions of the attacker, the ball and 2 defenders at a point in time as defined in the offside law...

Clear and obvious error doesn't apply to offside decisions. They are matters of fact, supposedly.

Agreed. They may well have got the lines wrong in Rome.

It took a long time but I expect that was because they had to check the defender on the far side as well as the ball position, and they have to get the best frame to represent time of ball contact. Some mistakes have been made with offside decisions so they probably want to be extra careful.

His knee was ahead of his foot. It was close but the mower lines on the pitch indicated his was slightly ahead of the ball, as did the VAR lines