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	Offside (football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The blue forward on the left of the diagram is in an offside position as he is both in front of the second to last defender (marked by the dotted line) and the ball.
		In order for an offside offence to occur the player must be in an offside position when the ball is touched or played by a team-mate; a player who runs from an onside position into an offside position after the ball was touched or played by a team-mate is not penalised.
		The sanction for an offside offence is an indirect free kick to the opposing team, at the spot where the offence occurred.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/offside_law_%28football%29 (1699 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Offside (rugby)
		Offside rules in Rugby Union are particularly complex to the casual observer.
		An attacking player is offside if he is in front of the ball: if he is in front of a ball which is then kicked, he can be put onside if the kicker subsequently moves ahead of him before the ball is caught.
		The offside rule means a player who is offside is committing a foul, unless he is deemed to be not interfering with play (eg, on the other side of the pitch and consequently unable to receive a pass).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Offside-(rugby) (980 words)

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		The difficulty in interpreting the offside law is that the referee must simultaneously evaluate the positions of a number of players located at varying distances from him which constitutes a problem of perspective.
		It is clear from the text of the Law that the offside judgement must be made at the moment the ball is (touched or) played, at which time the player in question may be 50 and more yards from the referee.
		Offside on a direct free kick can only occur if an attacker in an offside position interferes with the goalkeeper by letting the ball run past or by interfering through movements, gestures, or shouts.
	www.bartlesvillesoccer.org /Offside.html (976 words)

	Offside law (football) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Also note that offside position is determined whenthe ball is touched/played by a team-mate — a player's offside position status is not then altered by them or defendersrunning forwards or backwards.
		A player in an offside position is only committing an offside offence if, at the moment the ball istouches or is played by a team-mate, the player is (in the Referee's opinion), involved in active play by:interfering with play; interfering with an opponent; or gaining an advantage by being in that position.
		The offside trap is a defensive tactic, for which Arsenal areparticularly famed.
	www.therfcc.org /offside-law-football--67093.html (844 words)

	Offside (rugby) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Offside rules in Rugby Union are particularly to the casual observer.
		A defending player is offside if he closer than 10m to the play-the-ball (or the play-the-ball is inside his 10m line to it than the try-line is) when ball is played.
		An attacking player is offside if he in front of the ball: if he in front of a ball which is kicked he can be put onside if kicker subsequently moves ahead of him before ball is caught.
	www.freeglossary.com /Offside_%28rugby%29 (671 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| Referees, players and fans given a new lesson on the offside law
		Offside has always been a problem for the uninitiated but even diehard fans will be wrestling with it after the authorities tweaked the law again.
		Spain suffered at the hands of dubious offside decisions in their quarter-final with South Korea, and Italy were outraged by perceived injustices in their group game with Croatia and their second-round match with Korea.
		Offside is down to the referee's interpretation of the situation, with the linesman's assistance.
	football.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9753,1234578,00.html (824 words)

	Offside law (football) - InformationBlast
		Also note that offside position is determined when the ball is touched/played by a team-mate — a player's offside position status is not then altered by them or defenders running forwards or backwards.
		A player in an offside position is only committing an offside offence if, at the moment the ball is touches or is played by a team-mate, the player is (in the Referee's opinion), involved in active play by: interfering with play; interfering with an opponent; or gaining an advantage by being in that position.
		The sanction for an offside offence is an indirect free kick to the opposing team, from where the offence occurred.
	www.informationblast.com /Offside_law_%28football%29.html (825 words)

	Link from Offside camera
		Offside: attacking player (team A) is closer to the goal line than any defending player (team B) [except the goalkeeper - correction from mcscotland] at the moment when the ball is sent up the field by another team A player.
		In the computation of distances, that player (who was clearly offside but was not going to receive the ball and/or was running back into an onside position) would be eliminated and the relative distance measurement would be restricted to team B defenders and the _one_ suspected offside team A player.
		To be in an "offside position", a player must be on the opponent's half of the field and closer to the opponent's goal line than both the ball and the second-last defender.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Offside_20camera/addlink (1687 words)

	Offside!
		If, in the opinion of the referee, the player in the offside position should be penalised for being in an offside position, he will award offside and restart the match with an indirect free kick.
		They cannot, however, be offside if they are in their own half of the field; level with the second last opponent or level with the last two opponents.
		And a player in an offside position is only penalised if, at the moment the ball touches or is played by one of his team, he is, in the opinion of the referee, involved by: interfering with play; interfering with an opponent or gaining an advantage by being in that position.
	www.phespirit.info /football/offside.htm (1105 words)

	Offside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The offside rule that occurs in a number of field sports including most versions of football, ice hockey (see offside (hockey)) and, until recently, in field hockey.
		Burtrand World: Offside Rule A simple explanation of the offside rule and the offside trap with the use of diagrams.
		Offside Das Portal bietet aktuelle Meldungen rund um die sieben wichtigsten europäischen Top-Ligen.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Offside.html (245 words)

	Offside (football) in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		The red forward on the left of the diagram is in an offside position as he is both in front of the second last defender (marked by the stippled line) and the ball.
		A player in an offside position is only committing an 'offside offence' if, "at the moment the ball touches or is played by one of his team", the player is in an offside position and in the referee's opinion is involved in 'active play'.
		A player is not committing an offside offence if the player receives the ball directly from a throw-in, goal kick or corner kick.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/offside_law_%28football%29 (1757 words)

	Offside rule a no-brainer for referees
		Francisco Belda Maruenda, a family doctor in Murcia, said in order for the offside rule to be applied correctly referees and linesmen must keep at least five moving objects in their visual fields at the same time -- two attacking players, two defenders and the ball.
		The offside rule, part of the laws since 1866 three years after the sport was first codified in 1863, underwent its last significant change in 1925 and is the most complicated of the 17 statutes that govern the game.
		In essence though, it states that an attacking active player is offside "if he is nearer to his opponents’ goalline than the second-last opponent" when the ball is passed to him by a team mate.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/12/17/topnews/offsideruleano-brainerforreferees.html (503 words)

	Definition of Offside (rugby)
		In open play, players are offside if they are either in front of a team mate who is carrying the ball, or in front of a team mate who has kicked the ball.
		Offside players cannot participate in any further part of the game until they become onside again.
		If offside players do participate in the game, for example by playing the ball or obstructing an opponent (by loitering) then their team will be penalised.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Offside_%28rugby%29 (446 words)

	Offside law football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/offside_law__football_ (188 words)

	Offside Diagrams
		For a player to be in an offside position, he must be in front (with a part of his body, head, torsos or legs) of the line that is nearest to his opponents' goal line.
		Attacker No. 8 who is standing in an offside position on the field of play near the touchline, steps off the field of play, thus indicating to the Referee that he does not wish to be involved with active play during this phase of the game.
		Offside is judged at the precise moment that the ball touches or is played by a team-mate.
	www.carosi.freeserve.co.uk /corshamreferee/offpics.htm (6666 words)

	Offside Zone
		Everybody knows that the offside is the most difficult and at the same time the most controversial rule of soccer.
		For any offside offence, the referee awards an indirect free kick to the opposing team to be taken from the place where the infringement occurred.
		Offside Zone is a place where we publish your interesting questions and answers.
	www.isoccermom.com /offside.htm (237 words)

	Offside law (football) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A player in an offside position is committing an offside offence if at the moment the ball is touches is played by a team-mate the player is in the referee's involved in active play by: interfering with play; interfering with opponent; or gaining an advantage by being that position.
		The sanction for an offside offence is an free kick to the opposing team from the offence occurred.
		It is often assumed that the offside is a recent addition to combat "goal or "cherry picking" where attacking players hang near the opposing goal in case the gets kicked upfield but in fact it back to the early years of the and was much stricter in the past it is today.
	www.freeglossary.com /Offside_law_(football) (1078 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Football - Touch and go for new offside rule
		OFFSIDE rulings have, over the years, been the cause of many post match heated debates between rival supporters with the "was he, wasn't he" argument regularly raging in pubs across Scotland on a Saturday evening.
		As FIFA seek to perfect the beautiful game they have again tweaked the offside ruling in an attempt to clarify when a player is "active" and when he is not.
		The ruling, which took effect from July 1, means in a nutshell that a player will only be flagged offside when he touches the ball as opposed to last season whereby merely looking as though he was attempting to get involved in play from an offside position was enough to raise the linesman's flag.
	sport.scotsman.com /football.cfm?id=1679132005 (1310 words)

	FIFA Offside
		Gaining an advantage by being in an offside position means playing a ball that rebounds to him off a post or crossbar or playing a ball that rebounds to him off an opponent having been in an offside position.
		If the attacking player in an offside position is running towards the ball and touches it, only when contact with the ball has been made should the assistant raise his flag.
		The doubt has also been removed as to the question of whether or not a player is gaining an advantage from an offside position when a team-mate's shot rebounds off an opponent and falls to a player in an offside position.
	www.aysosm.org /misc/fifa-offside/offside.html (756 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| The offside rule - explained!
		The Dutchman was offside at the time Ronaldo's freekick was taken but was not flagged because he was not "interfering with play", a phrase that looks set to become part of the fabric of the game.
		Officials at the FA insist that the offside rule, as such, has not changed and that it is merely the interpretation that has altered.
		If, however, a player is in an offside position he has not committed an offense unless he is deemed to be active.
	football.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9753,1137811,00.html (520 words)

	Ice hockey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are two major rules of play in ice hockey that limit the movement of the puck: offside and icing.
		There are typically two linesmen, who are responsible only for calling offside and icing violations, and one or two referees, who call goals and all other penalties.
		In men's hockey, but not in women's, a player may use his hip or shoulder to hit another player if the player has the puck or is the last to have touched it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ice_hockey (5905 words)

	.: Offside - welcome :. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Offside was record their killer song "Hijau Kuning" and "Warrior".
		Just like the other band, Offside also losing a bandmate, Botak (Azim) as a drummer was leave the band for study and the other bandmate was upset losing a very talented drummer.
		Offside was stand with this line-up until today to to rock on all the skinhead.This achieved was not only for them but this is for the ALOR STAR SKINHEADS CREWS too..So welcome to the world of OFFSIDE and ALOR STAR SKINHEADS Scene!!
	www.i-bands.net /audiovault/bands/134 (601 words)

	Offside - susning.nu
		I fotboll är en spelare i det anfallande laget offside om det, i det ögonblick då en medspelare passar till honom eller försöker slå bollen i mål, inte finns någon spelare i försvarande laget (förutom målvakten) mellan honom och målet.
		Det andra laget tilldöms frispark från den punkt där spelaren i offside befann sig.
		I ishockey är en spelare i offside om spelaren tar sig in i motståndarens försvarszon utan kontrol på pucken och tar emot pucken från utifrån zonen.
	www.susning.nu /Offside (163 words)

	Soccer Edition 126 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The definition I am going to use is that an offside trap is when a defensive player or players step up in order to put the attacking players into an offside position shortly before the ball is played.
		The main benefits to using the offside trap is that it disrupts the flow of the game for the opponent and frequently results in the changing their style of play in order to combat this tactic.
		There is a lot of discussion about whether an offside trap is effective, and also whether it destroys the flow of the game to the point where it takes the enjoyment out of it for all involved.
	www.finesoccer.com /soccer_edition_126.htm (858 words)

	Om Offside
		I dag, fem år senare, är Offsides Sveriges största och mest välrenommerade fotbollsmagasin.
		Bland de medverkande i Offside genom åren finns sportjournalister som Ulf Roosvald, Henrik Ystén, Mats Olsson och Olof Lundh, men ävenfotbollsintresserade författare som Åke Edwardson, Peter Birro och Sture Dahlström.
		I 2005 års första nummer lanserade justitieminister Thomas Bodström ett nytt lagförslag mot läktarvåldet i Offside.
	www.offside.org /index.cfm?pageID=9 (455 words)

	MLSnet.com - About - Rules
		The offside rule is simple in theory, difficult to implement in practice, and the source of untold frustration among fans.
		If the offside attacker is interfering with the play in any way (such as blocking the path of an opponent) or otherwise gaining an advantage by being in an offside position (receiving the ball with a clear path to goalkeeper, for example), then an infraction has occurred and the play is stopped.
		Whenever play is stopped due to an offside offense, the referee awards an indirect free kick to the defending team from the spot where the offense occurred (i.e., where the offside player was located when the ball was played forward).
	www.mlsnet.com /MLS/about/rules.jsp?rule=11 (373 words)

	Offside Rule - Offside Trap, Football, Soccer
		This is offside because the red number 10 is in front of all of the defenders, leaving only the goalkeeper back which isn't enough players to play him onside.
		This position may have been forced by the defenders moving forward in what is called the offside trap.
		The offside rule exists to stop goal hanging, where a player stands next to the opposing teams goal keeper in the hope that someone can get the ball to him (probably using a long ball), so he can get it past the goal keeper.
	www.burtrandworld.co.uk /offside-rule.php (519 words)

	MDCVSRP
		Referees are reminded that the reference to "playing or touching the ball" does not mean that an offside infraction cannot be called until an attacker in an offside position actually touches the ball.
		What the International Board has recently emphasized is that, in the unlikely event an attacker in an offside position is not challenged by any opponent, the attacker should not be ruled offside unless and until the attacker physically touches the ball.
		An attacker in an offside position whose gestures or movements, in the opinion of the officiating team, cause an opponent to challenge for the ball has interfered with an opponent and should be ruled offside whether the attacker touches the ball or not.
	www.vadcsoccerref.com /home/106925.html (311 words)

	Soccer Rules FAQ
		Part of each foot must be on the touchline or on the ground outside the touchline “at the moment of delivering the ball.” Once the ball has left the thrower’s hands the ball has been “delivered” and the thrower may lift his feet as far off the ground as he wishes.
		In essence, what it means is that if an attacking player is in an offside position, but not interfering with an opponent, the referee must wait until he touches the ball before penalising him for being offside.
		From these clarifications, it can now be seen that if an attacking player in an offside position is not interfering with an opponent, or in the line of sight of a goalkeeper, and not touching the ball, an offside infraction is not committed.
	www.ayso85.org /r85/rulesfaq.php (2951 words)

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