by Ian Royal » 27 Mar 2008 22:07
by Skyline » 28 Mar 2008 16:39
by Rev Algenon Stickleback H » 28 Mar 2008 21:14
Skyline One thing about the offside law that always bugs me is that it is so lop-sided in favour of the attacking side - specifically, an attacker is only flagged for offside if one of the situations in KH's article arises, but a defender can play someone onside even if they are nowhere near the ball and could not really be said to be interfering with play or gaining an advantage (if you used the same definitions as used for an attacker).
I know (hope?) there must be good reasons for it, but I'd love to know what the official reason is.
by Rev Algenon Stickleback H » 28 Mar 2008 21:17
...or even before it gets to the line, as was the case last Saturday for one throw in.Jerry St Clair Having said that, I'd like to see Hackett's reasoning for linesman repeatedly flagging the ball out of play as soon as it touches the white line. There's absolutely no excuse for that.
by Skyline » 29 Mar 2008 07:19
Rev Algenon Stickleback HSkyline One thing about the offside law that always bugs me is that it is so lop-sided in favour of the attacking side - specifically, an attacker is only flagged for offside if one of the situations in KH's article arises, but a defender can play someone onside even if they are nowhere near the ball and could not really be said to be interfering with play or gaining an advantage (if you used the same definitions as used for an attacker).
I know (hope?) there must be good reasons for it, but I'd love to know what the official reason is.
it's because it used to be really annoying in the past to see what looked like perfectly good goals ruled out because some player on the attacking team, nowhere near the goal, just happened to be ahead of a defender when a shot went in.
the only point of the offside law is to try and stop players gaining an advantage from being offside. I can't for the life of me think why you think the goal you used in your example should be disallowed.
by Ian Royal » 31 Mar 2008 22:25
SkylineRev Algenon Stickleback HSkyline One thing about the offside law that always bugs me is that it is so lop-sided in favour of the attacking side - specifically, an attacker is only flagged for offside if one of the situations in KH's article arises, but a defender can play someone onside even if they are nowhere near the ball and could not really be said to be interfering with play or gaining an advantage (if you used the same definitions as used for an attacker).
I know (hope?) there must be good reasons for it, but I'd love to know what the official reason is.
it's because it used to be really annoying in the past to see what looked like perfectly good goals ruled out because some player on the attacking team, nowhere near the goal, just happened to be ahead of a defender when a shot went in.
the only point of the offside law is to try and stop players gaining an advantage from being offside. I can't for the life of me think why you think the goal you used in your example should be disallowed.
I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective (or more likely, as I said originally, I didn't explain it properly). It's got nothing to do with goals being ruled out because a member of the attacking team who is not 'active' in any sense happens to be ahead of the last defender, it is to do with a defender who, using the same interpretations as applied to the attacking team, would not be considered 'active', but is still playing onside an otherwise offside attacker. In the example I gave, if the defender hadn't been there, the striker who was passed to would have been in an offside position. It's the lopsidedness of the thing that gets me - an attacker who isn't 'active' isn't taken into account, but a defender who isn't 'active' is.
If you see what I mean.
by From Despair To Where? » 01 Apr 2008 20:00
Ian Royal Interesting to see so many people saying that Blackburn had 5 players caught offside but no flag the other day. Under those rules surely only 1 possibly 2 of them could really have been offside as defined by the rules. Just because they were in an offside position doesn't mean they were causing an offence.
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