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This statement is utterly irrelevant. ALL that matters is deliberate or not...whether the ball/hand contact leads to an advantage makes absolutely zero difference in Law. It's bad enough when we have to point this out to players and coaches. When a qualified referee also parrots this myth, it...

PinnerPaul is spot on. Offside can NEVER be called when the last deliberate play on the ball was from a defender, irrespective of how many other defenders it ricochets off subsequently. It astonishes me that so many referees seem to have such a hazy idea of the requirements for offside.

Right answer ... No.

I am amazed at how complicated people can make a simple decision. For what possible reason can the fact that the ball had come to a natural stop have ANY bearing on the Law concerning a 'deliberate circumvention' ? Is it somehow less of a circumvention if the ball is stationary? Why on earth...

Remember that being in an offside position is not an offence. And just because the ball is coming straight towards a player, also does not constitute an offside offence. For all you know they may be about to run back and leave it. If a defender fouls an opponent in an offside position just...

Not in my games it doesn't. I always tell both teams before the game that they always have the right to a quick free kick (without asking) UNLESS I have indicated that it will be on the whistle (caution, injury, sub). I have never had a problem. On the few occasions teams have scored from...

I was in a game with CARs. Reds got a break with a long ball from the defence. A bunch of players (attackers and defenders) chased after it. Offside had been a strong possibility, but there was no flag ( I had been a little too far back to give anything). As an attacking player touched the...

It is also not against the laws to flick the ball up and head it. Except when doing either to pass to the keeper in this specific instance.

Football has grown into the world's major sport precisely because it has been very careful to only make small changes in the laws over the years, rather than desperate and confusing re-writings (hey there, rugby!). By all means address the things that need changing (dissent, simulation ) but...

In Western Australia generally Men's games get $84 (52 gbp) and Ladies $74 (46 gbp). Pay is of course higher for State leagues (from $185 down to $125) and lower for Juniors (17/18s - $66 down to 12s - $30). But on the flip side we need to pay an annual fee of $235 (148 gbp) to register.

Remember though that if you really consider that the shout verbally distracted an opponent it is a yellow card, and (as a consequence) an IFK. You cannot just give the free kick (as I have known refs in my playing days to do). No caution, no kick.

This actually happened a while back at the tail end of the season, but I thought I might share it. Green 7 on a breakaway down the right wing, Green 10 lagging behind her in the centre, all of the Red team lagging way behind these two. Green 7 centres ball to her team mate, who is some yards...

I find this very strange. In Western Australia we simply get paid before kick - off: eminently sensible if there is any trouble during the match. Why is this not a general rule?

The decision sounds right, but could we all stop using the term Obstruction, which was taken out of the laws almost twenty years ago....

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/11/23/bradley-s-disputed-goal-and-burch-lodeiro-incident-instant-replay?autoplay=true This is from Toronto FC and Montreal yesterday. at 1.27 It would be hard to find a clearer example of a player using trickery to circumvent the "back pass" rule (and I know...

Again, as I said, I am not talking about trifling abuses of the Law, but outright breaking it. But when a referee says he "manages" a MANDATORY yellow card, that is sadly, fancy speech for ignoring what the Law says. Look at it this way: would any referee fail to send off a player for spitting...

@DB: I do not speak nonsense. Mintyref stated quite categorically that many mandatory yellows "don't happen" on his pitch. The word "mandatory" cannot be clearer. Several others queried if he meant what he seemed to be saying, and he spelled it out. This is in my mind against all the...