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Looked that way… it’s specifically written in law that you can’t be offside from a corner…

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules

We call out players all the time...we should be able to taste our own medicine

Brilliant post, and perfectly summed up. A lot of referees on here seem to be stuck in 2010 or even earlier...time to catch up to modern times fellas

Indeed in this one, the hand on Maguire starts when the ball is still 20-30 yards away. I don’t think that is ‘close’

The way you describe it is specifically covered as follows: ‘a player in an offside position is moving towards the ball with the intention of playing the ball and is fouled before playing or attempting to play the ball, or challenging an opponent for the ball, the foul is penalised as it has...

I’m not uncomfortable with that approach, but for me personally I’d rather be correct in law as I could justify that to myself more easily. As my own harshest critic I’d have a hard time justifying to myself that I’d deliberately gone against law to aid my match control. But that’s just my...

Yes there is, I attached a picture but it may not have worked. The wording says ‘clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent’

I really do see that argument, and I understand it’s the path of least abuse on a Saturday afternoon / Sunday morning. But laws aren’t a framework, they’re laws to be followed and we as referees really shouldn’t be picking and choosing which ones to ignore or not.

If the ball isn’t nearby when the ‘offside’ attacking player is fouled then he/she can’t be penalised for the offside, abs the foul must be awarded.

It really does seem that many of us now disagree with specific parts of the LOTG, particularly relating to offside; EVEN when the LOTG have clear paragraphs such as this one where a player in an offside position is fouled before playing or attempting to play the ball, you penalise the foul...

Pretty sure this was from a corner

So is this suddenly now not a foul? 🤔

Also remember that the goalkeeper is out of play so any defender getting there also can’t use their hands so it improves the chance of scoring a goal even more

Wow, just wow. 🤦🏻‍♂️