I’ve said numerous times and it’s an extreme but A guy is a yard ahead of defender, ball gets played into him and he comes back to get there ahead of defender. He then cuts back towards own goal. Takes on 5 players and smashes one in from 30 yards. apparently he’s gained an advantage and is offside. A guy is standing 20 yards offside on 6 yard box. Ball is played wide to a winger onside who runs down the line and crosses into the forward who has never got back behind a defender and taps it in. He apparently hasn’t gained an advantage by being stood there and not having to outpace or manoeuvre the cb’s to find space and is given onside. Makes no sense
You're puzzling over the same things as me as my initial question was - what does played and touched refer to in reference to the player who's passing it to the player who may or may not be offside? With regard to Diego, he jumped in to tell me it wasn't ambiguous at all and proceeded to describe what it definitely doesn't mean, saying it refers to both the player passing the ball and the player receiving the ball.
Not sure it’s that complicated really? It’s when that contact is made. Call it touch or played what ever you want. The ‘touch’ because the ball may touch someone rather than being deliberately ‘played’ where you’d assume it would means pass. Either way it’s when the initial point of contact is made on the ball before the next player receives it. That’s why, going back to original discussion, you need to see the frame before as that one is when it’s leaving is foot as it’s blurry and can see the ball moving.
I think we've laboured the point long enough now. I think the law is open to interpretation and it shouldn't be.
