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Please read post no 59.

According to Law 11, a defending player who leaves the field of play for any reason shall be considered to be positioned on their goal line or touchline for the purposes of offside. When it comes to attacking players, it is only said that they can step or stay off the field of play not to be...

Al Foran. His Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro are superb. Conor McGregor not bad either.

Yes I’m wrong-I’ve only been an official for 20 years. But you know best.........

Yes it is in that case to do with the backpass. “Circumventing the law” can apply to other laws too-not just the backpass case above.

Law 12 Fouls and Misconduct- Cautions for unsporting behaviour There are different circumstances when a player must be cautioned for unsporting behaviour including if a player: • attempts to deceive the referee, e.g. by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation) •...

He didn’t AT THAT TIME (1996 or whenever it was). It wouldn’t be allowed now in 2021 with the current laws.

He would be deemed to be “knowingly” gaining an advantage-yes his momentum took him off the pitch but he then waited to see what Given was going to do and there is the “unfair advantage” aspect. This would be deemed to be “circumventing the laws of the game” and would receive a caution for...

Indeed.

This may explain the Man City one...... A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent. Offside law to read at...

Someone sent it to me-thought others might be interested. Just for the record I couldn’t give a monkeys what the weasel is up to or doing now.

Correct. We are talking about how it would be interpreted in today’s game.

I’ve tried to explain it as best I can Gents regarding the 2 different scenarios and we can get lost I guess in the “science”. Dion was/would be “gaining an advantage” returning from an offside position.

Yeah whatever Bro....,,,,

Correct-and it’s one hand to deem the ball being under control by the goalkeeper and not 2 hands which is what people think.

No-Given dropped the ball so the ball was in play at the moment Dion (in today’s interpretation) came back from on offside position and gained an advantage. That would be chalked off in today’s game. Last night the Man City player was not off the pitch so it’s 2 different scenarios. He was not...

Yes-I remember being at the game and was fuming aswell! That’s the reason they changed it to stop that happening 👍

The way it would be interpreted now in the Dion situation would be that he was off the pitch-so on the line for the benefit of Off Side-therefore gaining an advantage and would be flagged. If the ball was cleared upfield by Given then play would have continued.

Offside all day long I’m afraid. Wish people would stop listening to all these silly pundits who think they all know the laws of the game, but in reality they haven’t got a clue. Dinosaurs like Linaker et al still think the laws of the game are the same as when they played-they probably didn’t...

Yep but wouldn’t be a goal now. They changed it years ago to stop that happening again. So if a player is off the pitch (by momentum or to gain an advantage) he is deemed to be on the line so would be offside.