It's "if you are ahead of the defender"In soccer you cannot use your hand.....yet it's offside if you are a hand ahead of the defenders.
To me, this could be the dumbest rule in all of sports.
It would be dumb if it were true but the hands are not considered!In soccer you cannot use your hand.....yet it's offside if you are a hand ahead of the defenders.
To me, this could be the dumbest rule in all of sports.
The Portugal goal to me should have counted. It's a perfectly fine goal.It's "if you are ahead of the defender"
Toe or pinky doesn't matter
Wasnt the Portugal goal disallowed because of out stretched arms?It would be dumb if it were true but the hands are not considered!
Not the hand of even stretched arms. What was offside was the shoulder/arm pit area, which I believe is the borderline of what is considered. Even then it was basically a 50-50 call. Right on the edge.Wasnt the Portugal goal disallowed because of out stretched arms?
Feet and I believe head were in line with the defenders.
Just use proper cameras and signal down all offside. Quick, clean way to do thingsThe Portugal goal to me should have counted. It's a perfectly fine goal.
Rule should be adjusted to only count feet and head and not the arm. Once they make the change no soccer fan would complain and just accept the change.
This sport is not a high scoring sport. Why take a fine goal away because of an outstretched arm that doesn't even come to play at all?
Ps not a Portugal fan. Just hate this particular part of the offside rule.
Ok then I stand corrected. Not sure why none of my soccer crazed friends have ever corrected me on this. I've been screaming about this every international tourneyYeah it was a shoulder and a knee offside.
They don't care about hands.
Yeah shoulder you can score with so I think it's perfectly fine to call offside.Not the hand of even stretched arms. What was offside was the shoulder/arm pit area, which I believe is the borderline of what is considered. Even then it was basically a 50-50 call. Right on the edge.
Even diehard soccer fans don't know the rule tbh. I actually just had to explain this to some folks on Saturday and they probably follow the sport more than me these days. And really I only know because I played.Ok then I stand corrected. Not sure why none of my soccer crazed friends have ever corrected me on this. I've been screaming about this every international tourney![]()
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Definitely very close but yeah actually that's more off than I realized. Knee too, as zeke said.
Ok then I stand corrected. Not sure why none of my soccer crazed friends have ever corrected me on this. I've been screaming about this every international tourney![]()
Kane taketh and giveth