But if your in an offside position but not interfering with play the referee allows the game to continue and if an opposition player inadvertantly gives you posession of the ball it negates your offside position and puts you back in active play. Does'nt it?
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That would make you one then. As I've explained, pretty laboriously, an opposition player simply touching the ball doesn't initiate a new phase. How many times have you seen refs blow up when a player returns directly from an offside position to challenge a defender who has just cut out a pass? I've seen plenty. The only time a player can be in an offside position and not actually be offside, in regular play, is if either an opposing player passes the ball to him or a player from the same team plays the ball backwards or sideways and it ricochets off an opposition player and towards the player in an offside position.
That's my interpretation of the law. Having reviewed both goals, I can confirm that neither was off-side, and I'm a bloke, so I know.
It's a grey area. You'd be offside if, and this is a common occurence: I take a shot, and you're stood in an offside position as I do so. The keeper saves my shot and fumbles it. You run in and tap the ball in. The goal doesn't stand because you were offside when I took the shot, and we're still in the same phase because you are benefiting directly from this shot. Edit: In general, it depends what happens before said opposition player inadvertently gives you the ball. If he gives you it directly following an attempted pass to you (while you were in an offside position), you'd still be offside. If there was no pass, or you weren't in an offside position when an attempt was made, you're fine. This, is of course how the law should be applied, but refs tend to 'interpret' things differently during a game.
Go look at image 13 on page 108 of The handbook That kinda sums it all up. The other goal, was an own goal, so again, not offside! Can we get back to flirting now?
Yeah, but I wasn't really talking about that specific situation any more, but rather EMF's (KPR's) assertion that you stop being offside once an opposition player touches it. The Suarez one could have gone either way and luckily for us it stood.
Btw, I've just looked at that image, and that is indeed what happened with our second goal, but I wasn't talking about that. We were debating the first goal, where Meireles did attempt to pass to Suarez when he was offside. Look at digram 9 on page 106 for something similar.
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