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I am probably misunderstanding your hypothetical situation, because, that doesn't sound offside to me. An 'on rushing forward' suggests someone running toward the ball from behind it. If you are behind the ball, you are onside irrespective of the position of the defenders.

That is true. But the change wasn't made for the sake of change, or on a whim. People complained with the old law because a player making his way back up field on the left wing would lead to an attack down the right wing being stopped, a thunderbolt of a shot from a half cleared corner would be...

The direction of the pass is irrelevant to the law. I suppose that is because it would be quite an unusual set of circumstances for a player in an offside position (i.e. closer to the goal than the ball) to benefit from having the ball played behind him.

I've also noticed the offside rule seems to be the only one that commentators usually assume is right, when not obviously wrong. There are obvious offsides decisions, such as when trying to play the ball behind a high line. But there are complex ones where there are half-cleared attacks, and...

I'm not sure what it is your 'I don't think so' refers to. I'm just quoting the laws of the game. That bit you've highlighted simply means if a defender plays the ball deliberately (i.e. a miss-placed pass) and the attacker intercepts, the attacker is not offside. If it deflects off the...

Neither 'second phase' nor 'phase' appears in the current laws of the game (at least searching for those words brings up no results in the PDF). This is the offside law: Offside position It is not an offence in itself to be in an offside position. A player is in an offside position if: • he...