Wolves’ Pedro Neto had a goal against Liverpool controversially disallowed as VAR adjuged his team-mate Jonny to have been fractionally offside in the build-up

Fifa is considering the most radical change to the offside law for a generation. Discussions are taking place inside the world governing body that could see the law changed so that a player is offside only if there is “clear daylight” between them and the defending player.

If Fifa presses ahead, it would take the proposal to the International FA Board (Ifab) to ask for the system to be trialled and then secure a change to the laws of the game.

The last such change regarding players’ positions came in 1990, when Ifab altered the law so that a player was onside if they were level with the last defender — previously they had to be behind the defender.

The “clear daylight” idea would mean