>>>>>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAMK7EMKMx4
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>>>>>>>>Interesting. I'm not a soccer scholar, but that goal by Forest (I think it was the third goal shown in the series) - why wasn't the Forest player offside? I thought if you took a pass while you were past all the opposing players, that it was offside. There must be part of the rule I'm not familiar with.
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>>>>>>>One part that sometimes confuses people is that offside is determined at the moment the ball is struck, not when it is received. So if a player on the attacking team is onside when a teammate kicks the ball, then sprints past the defender to get to it, that's OK. It's hard to tell from the video whether that was the case on this play.
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>>>>>>But if you look at the last L goal, there are 2 blue shirts nearer the goal than red. Admittedly it's a shot at goal, not a pass, so, your being a ref, is that offside or what?
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>>>>>I think it would be if they participated in the action. If it was a pass, definetely an offside. If the ball touched any of them before entering the goal, also an offside.
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>>>>Yes, it's the old "interfering with play" clause. Like Emin said - "grey area" as in: if the ball accidentally sliced and went in the goal whereas it WAS meant as a pass.
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>>>Yeah, that's football!!! A goal like this would feed our sport TV shows for days discussing the sex of the angels... :) (hope you have the same saying in english)
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>>No-oh! but I assume it means "picking it apart in minute detail and analysing it down to the nth degree"?
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>... and getting to no conclusion.

We have an old scouse expression "argue the ins and outs of a duck's arse"

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