'Huge change' coming as IFAB conduct offside rule review

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Premier League - Wolverhampton Wanderers v Leicester City - Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, Britain - February 14, 2020 Wolverhampton Wanderers' Conor Coady remonstrates with referee Mike Dean after their goal is disallowed for offside REUTERS/Andrew Yates

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - When football's law-making body IFAB met last week, a decision that could massively impact the game at all levels passed barely noticed as the debate over VAR technology hogged the limelight.

Officials of IFAB, the International Football Association Board, made up of the four British home nations and FIFA, agreed to conduct a year-long review into the offside law, which is expected to end with a proposal for a new rule.