Offside is considered when the ball last touches a team mate, not when he gets/goes for the ball. Remember though, you can't be offside from a corner kick.as long as he is not offside if / when he gets / goes for the ball get on with it.
Surely what the OP describes is not consistent with a normal playing movement. The ball is dead. It’s leaving and re-entering without permission. It’s also an attempt at deception.I don't have an issue with it. Him being in the goal is part of normal playing movement for me which the law allows. The law also specifically allows an attacking player to be inside the goal when a goal is scored (unless he commits an offence) which tells me being in goal is part of normal play.
I don't believe what he does makes it harder to mark him as the defenders can do the same. Running around the goal is a different matter though.
Offside is considered when the ball last touches a team mate, not when he gets/goes for the ball. Remember though, you can't be offside from a corner kick.
Agree 100%. Just be proactive, tell him to come back onto the pitch. Easy.Well, players are meant to remain on the field of play, if I saw this, I like to think I would be proactive and indicate to the player that I want him back on the pitch. ( at this point am not considering yc for LTFOP)
Players off course will naturally leave the pitch in open play, there momenteum with take them off, and, players can leave the park with the referee's permission, and I suppose if we are being pedantic, they are off the park to take throws and corners.
Grounds for calling offside at your situation? You cant be offside at a corner kick, but, could this be technically because anybody ahead of the ball at a corner is going to be off the pitch, and therefore should not be there.
No issues with player ending up off pitch, i do have issue with players starting position being off the pitch.
But that's the whole point, surely? Was it part of a playing movement? The way it is described in the OP pretty much makes it sound as if it was a deliberate ploy and not part of a playing movement.Him being in the goal is part of normal playing movement for me which the law allows.
A player in possession of the ball passes over the touch line or the goal line without the ball in order to beat an opponent. What action does the referee take?
Play continues. Going outside the field of play may be considered as part of a playing movement, but players are expected, as a general rule, to remain within the playing area.
It reminds me of emails I get from time to time with the entire purpose of the email written in the subject line and nothing in the body of the emailDid this thread win the longest ever title award??
This is one of the few instances where disagree with One. The free kick example is a normal part of play. The free kick if located near a boundary may reasonably require a player to step off the field to have room to approach for the kick with the ultimate goal of getting the ball back in play. The OP describes something dissimilar in my opinion.The wording in law is "A player who crosses a boundary line as part of a playing movement, does not commit an offence." Playing movements are not limited to when in possession of the ball or in fact limited to when the ball is in play. When taking a free kick is another example. the Q&A has given one example of it, entire not the extent it should be applied.
I would apply the same for a defender. E.g take a couple of steps into the net so he can take a run up and be able to jump higher for goal line header clearance.
Now the OP says nothing about deceiving. If he does it to pretend he is out of play (deceiving similar to offside purposes) then it is a card. But as descried in the title, it is a tactical movement in play for me and within the LOTG. As stated earlier, it does not give him an unfair advantage. The defenders are free to mark him as per normal.
This is one of the few instances where disagree with One. The free kick example is a normal part of play. The free kick if located near a boundary may reasonably require a player to step off the field to have room to approach for the kick with the ultimate goal of getting the ball back in play. The OP describes something dissimilar in my opinion.
I would address it when I saw it
Sorry, but I disagree. As mentioned in the FIFA Q&A quoted above, "players are expected, as a general rule, to remain within the playing area." The attacker should not normally be off the field in the first place so there should be no need for defenders to go off the field in response to that. We do not want to normalize a situation where multiple players start standing outside the playing area to mark each other at a dead ball situation. As others have said, if players are slightly and temporarily off the field as the normal amount of 'jostling for position' goes on at a corner, it's a trivial matter that can be ignored, or if it's the first time it happens and you can't be absolutely sure why the player is doing this, a simple warning should suffice.I don't believe what he does makes it harder to mark him as the defenders can do the same.