Brian
Thanks for that. So, essentially, unless you receive the ball, you can't
be offside (apart from the nuances you mentioned, which seem very
irregular, marginal cases)?
Cheers
A
On 14/06/2010 7:38 PM, Brian Hamilton wrote:
Alec
Considering I teach referees how to referee, I'm happy to oblige. It is not an
offence to be in an offside position. In the situation you describe, assistant
referees are instructed to 'wait and see' to find out which player plays the
ball.
If the player in the offside position plays the ball, then the flag should be
raised, play stopped and an indirect free kick awarded to the defending team.
If the player who was not in an offside position plays the ball, then play
should continue.
Interfering with play means the player in the offside position actually playing
or touching the ball which has been passed or touched by a team mate.
The other definitions are firstly, interfering with an opponent which is
preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by blocking
their line of sight or making a gesture or movement intended to deceive or
distract the opponent. This occurred most recently when an Everton player was
in front of a goalkeeper blocking his line of sight following a corner and the
goal scored was chalked off.
Secondly there is gaining an advantage which is when the ball rebounds off a
crossbar, post or opponent when the offending player was in an offside position
when the ball was played on to the bar, post or opponent.
We usually take an hour and use a dvd that took a few thousand pounds to
explain that to newbies :-)
As for Clough's quote, there's been a number of law changes since he was
involved in football, most of them intended to make the game more attractive
and safer to play. He'd have loved the vuvuzelas though ;-)
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Alec
Sent: 14/06/2010 10:09:22
Subject: [LU] Offside rule clarification
Can someone who knows please clarify something for me. If a pass is
played forward to a player (not in an offside position), but in the
penalty box D, a player is moving forward with intent and is only
slightly ahead of the the player receiving the pass, and IS in an
offside position, is it offside? I am sure that the rule is about
"interfering with play", but what does that actually mean? Wasn't it
Clough who said "If he isn't interfering with play, what's he doing on
the pitch?".
Cheers
Alec
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