[BNM] [OT] Offside rule explained for girls

[Antony Jones]

Hey I don't like football either, I hate it with a passion, but I think it is important to experience other cultures.

Antony Jones
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Watts [mailto:swatts at ncsoft.com]
> Sent: 02 March 2006 11:58
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] [OT] Offside rule explained for girls
> 
> Can we have a new prefix for emails? [FB] to go with [OT] so I can
> filter out all the football BS.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Newman [mailto:alan at sensibledevelopment.net]
> Sent: 02 March 2006 11:45
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] [OT] Offside rule explained for girls
> 
> *pedantry alert*
> 
> You can be offside from a goal kick....otherwise strikers woud just goal
> hang and the game would tunr in to tennis with the keepers hoofing it up
> the
> pitch and the defender all standing on the line.
> 
> >>> but rather a goal kick or corner)
> 
> a corner?
> 
> Surely it would be an own goal - as the player is no longer active if an
> opposition player puts the ball across the line?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> - Alan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Gale [mailto:a.gale at epcdirect.co.uk]
> Sent: 02 March 2006 11:29
> To: 'Brighton New Media'
> Subject: Re: [BNM] [OT] Offside rule explained for girls
> 
> 
> It's simple.
> 
> 
> 
> If the ball is passed forward by a player
> 
> And the ball is received by a player of the same team
> 
> And the player who received the ball was in the opponents half when the
> ball
> was passed
> 
> And there were less than two opposition players closer to the opposition
> goal when the ball was passed
> 
> And the pass was not a goal kick or a throw in
> 
> Then the player who received the ball is offside and an indirect (if it
> goes
> directly in a goal it does not count as a gaol, but rather a goal kick
> or
> corner) free kick - to be taken from the position where the player who
> was
> caught offside was when the ball was passed forward - is awarded.
> 
> 
> 
> Simple.
> 
> 
> 
> Andy Gale
> 
> EPC Direct Limited
> 
> 
> 
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