| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? 14:18 - Nov 22 with 1593 views | giant_stow |
Presumably some sort of disaster but what exactly? |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:20 - Nov 22 with 1577 views | GeoffSentence |
Lots of lumping it out from the back to a goal hanger up front |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:23 - Nov 22 with 1561 views | DropCliffsNotBombs |
Bonne would be worth a few £M more. |  | | |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:24 - Nov 22 with 1555 views | giant_stow |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:20 - Nov 22 by GeoffSentence |
Lots of lumping it out from the back to a goal hanger up front |
Spose, but wouldn't it open the game up too? | |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:28 - Nov 22 with 1526 views | Keno |
I guess being a Norwich fan its hard tho grasp the finest points of the beautiful game |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:32 - Nov 22 with 1512 views | giant_stow |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:28 - Nov 22 by Keno |
I guess being a Norwich fan its hard tho grasp the finest points of the beautiful game |
Very much so. | |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:34 - Nov 22 with 1511 views | You_Bloo_Right |
From https://theconversation.com/euro-2020-the-history-of-the-offside-rule-and-the-de
"There remains the basic question of why offside is needed at all in football. Marco van Basten, in his role as technical director for Fifa from 2016 to 2018, campaigned for its removal. Van Basten noted that fans wanted more exciting football with fewer stoppages and delays. To achieve, this he argued that removing offside will simplify the game and make it more interesting and dynamic.
Van Basten’s critics counter that this would lead to chaos and the chronic goal hanging that spooked the original lawmakers of the 19th century. Van Basten shares the view of others in pointing to field hockey, which dispensed with its offside law in its entirety in 1998. Far from ruining the game, it is widely held that it has invigorated it by rewarding attacking play and making the game more exciting and free-flowing.
Trials have taken place in football without offside with mixed results. The experimental game led to a very high score (9-7) but a match that was not dramatically different in how it was played tactically overall. Van Basten believes the game could eventually adapt and improve as hockey has.
Less radically, former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has proposed another amendment where if any part of an attacking player’s body with which they can legally score is onside when the ball is played, then they are not offside. This addresses the controversies caused by the recent use of video assisted referee (VAR), whereby attackers have been penalised by the application of offside based on millimetre-wide infringements, rendering the whole notion of gaining an advantage to farcical and, ironically, unfair decisions." |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:39 - Nov 22 with 1482 views | giant_stow |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:34 - Nov 22 by You_Bloo_Right |
From https://theconversation.com/euro-2020-the-history-of-the-offside-rule-and-the-de
"There remains the basic question of why offside is needed at all in football. Marco van Basten, in his role as technical director for Fifa from 2016 to 2018, campaigned for its removal. Van Basten noted that fans wanted more exciting football with fewer stoppages and delays. To achieve, this he argued that removing offside will simplify the game and make it more interesting and dynamic.
Van Basten’s critics counter that this would lead to chaos and the chronic goal hanging that spooked the original lawmakers of the 19th century. Van Basten shares the view of others in pointing to field hockey, which dispensed with its offside law in its entirety in 1998. Far from ruining the game, it is widely held that it has invigorated it by rewarding attacking play and making the game more exciting and free-flowing.
Trials have taken place in football without offside with mixed results. The experimental game led to a very high score (9-7) but a match that was not dramatically different in how it was played tactically overall. Van Basten believes the game could eventually adapt and improve as hockey has.
Less radically, former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has proposed another amendment where if any part of an attacking player’s body with which they can legally score is onside when the ball is played, then they are not offside. This addresses the controversies caused by the recent use of video assisted referee (VAR), whereby attackers have been penalised by the application of offside based on millimetre-wide infringements, rendering the whole notion of gaining an advantage to farcical and, ironically, unfair decisions." |
Interesting ta. More goal hanging would mean leaving spaces behind, so although I clearly know nothing, I'm on Van Baston's side. | |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:39 - Nov 22 with 1480 views | ElderGrizzly |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:34 - Nov 22 by You_Bloo_Right |
From https://theconversation.com/euro-2020-the-history-of-the-offside-rule-and-the-de
"There remains the basic question of why offside is needed at all in football. Marco van Basten, in his role as technical director for Fifa from 2016 to 2018, campaigned for its removal. Van Basten noted that fans wanted more exciting football with fewer stoppages and delays. To achieve, this he argued that removing offside will simplify the game and make it more interesting and dynamic.
Van Basten’s critics counter that this would lead to chaos and the chronic goal hanging that spooked the original lawmakers of the 19th century. Van Basten shares the view of others in pointing to field hockey, which dispensed with its offside law in its entirety in 1998. Far from ruining the game, it is widely held that it has invigorated it by rewarding attacking play and making the game more exciting and free-flowing.
Trials have taken place in football without offside with mixed results. The experimental game led to a very high score (9-7) but a match that was not dramatically different in how it was played tactically overall. Van Basten believes the game could eventually adapt and improve as hockey has.
Less radically, former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has proposed another amendment where if any part of an attacking player’s body with which they can legally score is onside when the ball is played, then they are not offside. This addresses the controversies caused by the recent use of video assisted referee (VAR), whereby attackers have been penalised by the application of offside based on millimetre-wide infringements, rendering the whole notion of gaining an advantage to farcical and, ironically, unfair decisions." |
Jaime Peters and his arse wouldn't be a fan of Wenger's logic |  | | |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:43 - Nov 22 with 1457 views | clive_baker |
Norwich still wouldn't win anything. |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:44 - Nov 22 with 1452 views | giant_stow |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:43 - Nov 22 by clive_baker |
Norwich still wouldn't win anything. |
Brute. | |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:46 - Nov 22 with 1441 views | Darth_Koont |
Did it in field hockey and it made the game a lot better. So much so, that they even dispensed pretty quickly with the half-measure of an off-side line 30 yards out to go to no offside at all. But that could be a step that works best for football.
Players are much stronger, fitter and faster nowadays as it is. With defences able to push up and compress the active playing space even further it just restricts the attacking game and the overall entertainment IMO. |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:50 - Nov 22 with 1411 views | giant_stow |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:46 - Nov 22 by Darth_Koont |
Did it in field hockey and it made the game a lot better. So much so, that they even dispensed pretty quickly with the half-measure of an off-side line 30 yards out to go to no offside at all. But that could be a step that works best for football.
Players are much stronger, fitter and faster nowadays as it is. With defences able to push up and compress the active playing space even further it just restricts the attacking game and the overall entertainment IMO. |
Apart from anything, teams playing the offside trap are so so so boring. | |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 15:02 - Nov 22 with 1368 views | Superblue95 |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:39 - Nov 22 by ElderGrizzly |
Jaime Peters and his arse wouldn't be a fan of Wenger's logic |
Surely he’d be a big fan as his arse would constantly be playing him onside as it’s a body part you can score with.
I actually like the idea (Wengers, not Van Bastens)
Edit: you probably meant defensively in which case he’d be playing the world onside, ignore me. [Post edited 22 Nov 2022 15:03]
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 17:43 - Nov 22 with 1240 views | Sharkey |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 14:46 - Nov 22 by Darth_Koont |
Did it in field hockey and it made the game a lot better. So much so, that they even dispensed pretty quickly with the half-measure of an off-side line 30 yards out to go to no offside at all. But that could be a step that works best for football.
Players are much stronger, fitter and faster nowadays as it is. With defences able to push up and compress the active playing space even further it just restricts the attacking game and the overall entertainment IMO. |
I think football would be better if it took another rule from hockey, along the lines that at a corner a couple of players from the defending team have to be in the center circle . ( I haven’t worked out the details, but make the penalty box less crowded) |  | | |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 17:49 - Nov 22 with 1223 views | FrimleyBlue |
Bonne would win the golden boot every season. |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 17:50 - Nov 22 with 1212 views | ibbleobble |
Posts would turn to jumpers, the largest and roundest would get a game every week and Dave Bassett would come out of retirement. |  | | |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 17:54 - Nov 22 with 1200 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
Well Jacko would be unemployed. Footballers would all be like Sumo wrestlers. |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 19:05 - Nov 22 with 1083 views | Radlett_blue |
| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 17:43 - Nov 22 by Sharkey |
I think football would be better if it took another rule from hockey, along the lines that at a corner a couple of players from the defending team have to be in the center circle . ( I haven’t worked out the details, but make the penalty box less crowded) |
And, as in hockey, why shouldn't a player take a free kick to himself i.e. simply dribble with the ball? |  |
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| A Clangers/Jerseys style OP, well done Udders on 19:12 - Nov 22 with 1055 views | Dyland |
gmpf |  |
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| What would happen to football if there was no offside rule? on 19:20 - Nov 22 with 1036 views | jeera |
Teams would be lining up as 2-3-5.
Which there was a time... |  |
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