The Offside Law

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Ok folks - I am coming out of the closet.

I am a referee.

Bearing that in mind - I am aware that Connoly's goal against Wolves was offside - in my opinion the referee was correct. (Although it is often hard for me to be subjective where Leicester are concerened. I went to the Blackburn play off final, and the Swindon one - and boy did I express my difference of opinion with the respective referees!)

I saw a lot of posts going through at the time, some for and some against and that is why I have started this post - is any body actually for the offside rule?

As a ref, the most bookings I pick up are for dissent (or sendings off for foul and abusive language) at the time and offside is given. Can any body tell me what good this rule actually does? Would we be better off with out it? from the point of view of fans, players and referees wouldn't we all be better off without this stupid and outdated law?

And I've been dumped tonight.
 
I think the theory is that not having an offside law would make the game too defensive, because if players can 'goal hang', defenders will have to stay back to mark them.
It would be interesting to see what happened if a few games were played with no offsides.

I think if it was possible to leave a couple of strikers in your opponent's penalty area we'd probably see a lot of long balls aiimed at them, which would result in less 'flowing' football than we see at the moment (not that we've seen much of that in recent years!)
 
DesertFox said:
And I've been dumped tonight

:-( :-( :-(

Which means, of course, that the referee is, once again, a w****r! :P

:lol: :lol: :lol: Pure class and gets my vote for funniest post of the year.

We need offside for the reasons webbo pointed out, what needs to be done is the rule needs to be more straight forward. None of this 'if the ball is played and a player which is deemed to not be interferring with play' b*llocks. The reason refs and assistants (linesmen to the rest of us) get stick is because the rule is too complicated and results in inconsistancy.

BTW if any of my spelling or punctuation is not up to standard I really don't give a feck. :D
 
exactly naughty im with you on that, if you are on the pitch you are interfering with play, if you are running back from an offside position stick the flag up. offside rule needs to be made easier
 
Offside rules.
 
Yorkshire Vixen said:
exactly naughty im with you on that, if you are on the pitch you are interfering with play, if you are running back from an offside position stick the flag up. offside rule needs to be made easier

shouldnt you be deciding what to cook for tea rather than bother yourself with mans talk ?
 
Yorkshire Vixen said:
exactly naughty im with you on that, if you are on the pitch you are interfering with play, if you are running back from an offside position stick the flag up. offside rule needs to be made easier

shouldnt you be deciding what to cook for tea rather than bother yourself with mans talk ?
 
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It would be interesting to see what happened if a few games were played with no offsides.

The Anglo-Italian Tournament of the early 70's (City took part in 1971/72) featured an amended off-side rule; there could be no off-side other than in the opponent's penalty area.

Having seen the home games against Cagliari and Atalanta, it would be difficult to say that the game was in any way improved.
 
Yorkshire Vixen said:
exactly naughty im with you on that, if you are on the pitch you are interfering with play, if you are running back from an offside position stick the flag up.


But it used to be like that, and it caused even more problems than it does now, because defending teams would use it to their advantage

Can you not remember some of the awful defensive tactics some teams used to use?
Even teams like Arsenal used the offside law as their main defensive strategy.

One of the worst teams for this was the Cambridge team under John Beck (with Dublin and Claridge in the team).

One of their main tactics was for the defence to move forward in unison just before the ball was played forward by their opponents - not just when they were defending around their own area, but even when they were near the half way line. This often left several players in offside positions, and completely broke up the flow of play, and was hard to play against.
But these days a team wouldn't be able to use that tactic, because the players in offside positions wouldn't be flagged offside if a player from an onside position ran onto the ball instead.

So the offside law in its current form is much better for attacking football and has stopped some of the negative tactics we used to see.
 
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