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by kitty loves you on December 10th, 2006

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So, just what is the off-side rule?

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  • by Ullyses on December 11th, 2006

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    The offside rule is quite straightforward. At its simplest it is as follows: If your team is attacking (has possession of the ball) and there is no member of the opposition between you and the opposition's goalmouth except the goalkeeper, and you are actively taking part in play (or could be considered to be interfering with play) then you will be judged to be offside. The only real exception to this is if you are off the field of play (but would be in on offside position if you were on the field of play) and the game is stopped (a free-kick or foul given). If you then rejoin the field you will not be in an offside position unless you move into a normally onside position then return to an offside position. This happened in a Brazilian game when a striker waited for the opposition's goalkeeper to spot the ball for a goal-kick then ran onto the field and scored. The goal was given.

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  • by unclesox on December 12th, 2006

    unclesox

    In it's simplist terms:
    At the moment a teammate of yours passes the ball forward to you, you (the person receiving the ball) must have at least two defenders between you and the goal. (One of those defenders is, of course, the goalkeeper).
    If there's only one defender between you and the goal, you are judged offside.
    That is as simple as one can put it.

    However, in recent years the rule has been tweaked with and modified to such an extent that I'm not sure anyone can properly explain all the possible senarios of when a player should be ruled offside and understand it even if they had FIFA's official "Laws of the Game" sitting in front of them.

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  • by ChrisDG on December 11th, 2006

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    There has to be more than one player of the defending team between an attacker and the goalline he is attacking before he can recieve a pass. The defending players can include the goalkeeper or not, it does not matter. So if the goalkeeper had e.g. gone up to attack a corner at the other side of the pitch and was left stranded there, the atackers may not be offside depending on where the goalkeeper's defenders are.

    So if you imagine the red team have the ball. The blue team are defending. So obviously the red teasm have to attack past the blue defenders. If there is a red attacker who is behind the defenders (i.e. closer to the blue goal than the blue defenders) he is in an offside position. If he then recieves the ball from a pass that goes over or through the defenders he will have committed an offside violation. The defenders won't have enough time to get back and so he has an unfair advantage that he gained through simply beng lazy and staying near the blue goal.

    If he doesn't recieve a pass then play may continue because although he is in an offside position he is not abusing that position and becoming part of the play.

    If he tracks back so that he is no longer offside (i.e. is at least level with a defender) and then runs after a pass from this position it is OK, as long as when the pass was kicked he was not offside.

    this rule leads to the offside trap where defenders push up the pitch so that there is a large area behind them classed as offside where the attckers cannot stray. However this can be exploited by the attackers if they are very fast because they can chase after a pass into this area faster than the defenders and then have no oposition except the goalkeeper. In one on one situations with the goalkeeper it is accepted that the attacker is very likely to score.

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  • by tigueron on December 12th, 2006

    tigueron

    what sport?

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