The Canadian Premier League is set to trial Arsene Wenger’s “daylight” offside rule.
It was presented to the International Football Association Board (Ifab) at its annual business meeting on Tuesday.
It will now go forward to the annual general meeting in Cardiff on 28 February. If approved, the trial will begin when the Canadian Premier League kicks off in April.
Wenger, who has been Fifa’s head of global football development since 2019, proposes that there should be a complete gap between the attacker and the second-to-last opposition player – effectively the last defender, given the goalkeeper’s usual positioning.
Critics have suggested that daylight offside will give too much advantage to the attacking team.
“We have to try the…