THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ABOLISH OFFSIDES

well the ball itself is not even the #1 cause of head injuries I would imagine?

true too

the #1 cause is zidane

the girl I knew received 5 out of her 6 concussions via zidane

small sample size tbf

splendid thread

i say let's keep these intrepid young bucks around and ship out the american soccer superfans, freshen up the ilf roster

No offside. Most leagues play without an offside rule. Some leagues enforce a "three-line violation", prohibiting players from playing the ball in the air from behind the front line of their own penalty area across all three lines into the opponent's penalty area. Violations often result in a free kick for the opposing team at the front line of the offending team's penalty area.

^ indoor soccer

No offisdes would result in ten players defending the box and one lone striker way out - it would lessen the back-and-forth aspect of soccer, would make counters less exciting and less likely to score and make normal build-up attacks more rare and less valuable.

yuh no offsides would mean less attacking imo and the game would get even tighter, especially in game where fast, superior athletes can push an opposition back knowing that their backline can easily handle going up against jason roberts

more true than ever

all the offsides

It's that time of the decade: football noob time!

um i may not know as much abt soccer as certain people or watch it ever but i understand it better than pretty much everyone that is my gift and also my burden

*bows, enlightened*

i read about many of the sports on the internet and on ilxor.com and why is it that footsoccer is the one sport where ppl seem to be most precious about knowing or understanding the game? it is just hating on americans right? i enjoy that as much as the next right minded fellow but it seems like there have to be a metric tonne of less lame ways to go about it

Dude, I'm the one who asked where I could get American streams coz I prefer their commentators to the English ones

to fuel the hate that sustains you

Lj you know the primary commentators for American streams are all Britishers right

LJ you know all English-speaking commentators are fucking awful right

lj u know the offsides rule is completely contrary to the spirit of the game right

just wait until the US picks up the 2022 tournament on the rebound, i'm sure Sepp will let you do whatever you want to the laws

admit it wld be cool if mls changed the rule just to see right, to test it out

i wd be okay if you ran this experiment alongside a proper World Cup just so's we didn't miss out

they score tons of points in basketball and its the best

lol

fact

imo a klaxon should sound at randomly timed points to turn the offside rule on and off.

fuck it, apply that to all rules why not.

immediate video ref much more u&k a change needed IMO, and refs to be interviewed after each game upon request

yah if any sport needs to be able to review calls is soccer cause of how much individual calls can affect the outcome of the game

It would be cool if they installed like 100 cameras in the stadium and used computers to determine whether somebody was offsides or not

Like we can superimpose a down line in American football and we've been doing that for like 20 years at least

Use computers to play soccer, that's my platform

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Obama coming in from the left

thinkin bout this again

its wild that soccers is the most popular sport with all the fucked up shit that goes on

prob mostly due to the fact there are no stoppages of play due to tv commercials which tbf is amazing

football is already a broken fake spectacle beholden to tv companies just like all the other professional sports, you can let it go now bud

trying to work out if it was a united game that first inspired this thread too lol

seemingly not. olympics maybe

i dont remember lol fwiw i do not "support" man u, i just hate to see a goal nullified by offsides

the only thing from the game just now that needs to be abolished is peter drury

offsides to the mm dont work under var, even when the player is actually offside (todays wasnt)

why wont any league abolish offsides cmon america has multiple ones now cant a shitty one just give it a try, i need to see it, it bothers me the way america is adopting soccer just larping shit from tv wearing the scarves calling the teams fc being unreasonably attached to the offsides rule, mortifying

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/04/swedish-club-contact-ifab-after-finding-loophole-in-offside-law

Funny vid, but if you tried that in a real game someone would just kick the ball off your foot before you got the chance to kick it.

Per OP 11 years ago, think they've tried getting rid of offside many times and you just get all the strikers hanging around the box with the midfielders hoofing the ball in their direction. If that's what you want to see then fair enough.

i am pro the offside rule bcz it is the brainchild of J. C. THRING

literally this guy's dad lol

https://i0.wp.com/www.rob-gregory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Gabbitas-and-Thring-Cropped.jpg

Per OP 11 years ago, think they've tried getting rid of offside many times and you just get all the strikers hanging around the box with the midfielders hoofing the ball in their direction. If that's what you want to see then fair enough.

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theyve never tried getting rid off offsides, at least not over a long enough stretch to let real strategy evolve, and i suspect just kicking it into the box wouldnt be where it would land, tho it would def stretch the field so to speak