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Re: No Faith in the Moral Standards of the Players as a Group
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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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If you're sitting on the far post offsides, the keeper has to worry about you and play in a different position than if you were not there, opening up the goal for the shooter. You have affected the play without touching the ball. That is why there can be an offsides call even if the offsides player has not touched the ball.
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