Competition - Explain The Offside Rule.....

[El Sid]

Just noticed a flaw: free kicks.

So:
If, while the ball is in the field of play* and you are in your opponents half, ahead of the ball, and there are fewer than two opposing players between you and their goal-line, you are offside if you interfere with play when the ball is kicked by a team mate.


*For goal kicks, throw ins, and corners the ball has left the field and so you can't be ahead of something that isn't officially on the pitch, which is why you're not offside from those situations. With a free kick, while the play is dead, the ball has an official position - the place of the infringement.

You were winning............

 

[AZ Gull]

If, while the ball is in play, you are ahead of the ball, in your opponents half, and there are fewer than two opposing players between you and the goal-line, you are offside if you interfere with play when the ball is kicked by a team mate.

So you can't be offside from a headed pass?

 

[Acker79]

You were winning............

The asterisk part is not intended to be included in my definition, just to pre-empt questions, so my definition is still a similar length.

 

[Acker79]

So you can't be offside from a headed pass?

Replace kicked with 'touched' or 'played'