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Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Right - but the reason doesn't make as much sense because there is an intervening influence - the goal or (usually) the goalkeeper.
Also, the rule as written says "involved in active play" and "gains an advantage by being in that position" - take for example a shot from one side, with a player in an offside position on the far side (well beyond the goal keeper). On the shot, that player, while in an offside position is not actively involved in the play. Yet if the shot hit the crossbar and fell to that player s/he would be called offside, but only because of subsequent developments (hitting the crossbar) not because at the time the ball was played the player was offside.
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how's that different than a pass across the field to a guy who hadn't been involved, but suddenly is?
