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Offside judged at the moment the ball is kicked and not at moment it is received.

This is also an actual 1974 change.
 
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With all the hints you have been dropping :) it must be the ball pressure.

I cant find the actual laws fro 74 or 73 but nothing in the 1974 IFAB AGM minutes regarding ball or ball pressure in the law changes.
 
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According to Mr Ken Aston’s Wiki he had it implemented that it was a refs responsibly to check the ball pressure from 1974! Cheers Ken!
 
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The Wiki article doesn't actually put a year on specifying ball pressure in LOTG. 1974 is for the year of introducing subs board.

"He also successfully proposed that the pressure of the ball should be specified in the Laws of the Game. In 1974, he introduced the number board for substitutes, so that players could easily understand who was being substituted."

The first introduction of ball pressure looks to be in 1967 according IFAB AGM minutes for the year.
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Good to be challenged to find stuff about the game, no matter how trivial they may be :)
 
Peter Grove said:
Sorry, you're about 100 years out on that one. This was introduced in 1873.
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Original offside rule
The offside rule formed part of the original rules in 1863 but it was a far removed from the law as we know it today. Any attacking player ahead of the ball was deemed to be offside - meaning early tactical systems featured as many as eight forwards, as the only means of advancing the ball was by dribbling or scrimmaging as in rugby. In the late 1860s, the FA made the momentous decision to adopt the three-player rule, where an attacker would be called offside if positioned in front of the third-last defender. Now the passing game could develop.

Despite the unification of the rules and the creation of the FA in 1863, disputes, largely involving Sheffield clubs who had announced their own set of ideas in 1857, persisted into the late 1870s. However, the creation of the International Football Association Board (IFAB) finally put an end to all arguments. Made up of two representatives from each of the four associations of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland), the IFAB met for the first time on 2 June 1886 to guard the Laws of the Game. Then, as today, a three-quarters majority was needed for a proposal to be passed.
Gradual changes
In those early years, the game gradually assumed the features we take for granted today. Goal-kicks were introduced in 1869 and corner-kicks in 1872. In 1878 a referee used a whistle for the first time. Yet there was no such thing as a penalty up until 1891. In the public schools where modern football originated, there was an assumption that a gentleman would never deliberately commit a foul. Amid the increased competitiveness, however, the penalty, or as it was originally called 'the kick of death', was introduced as one of a number of dramatic changes to the Laws of the Game in 1891.
Penalties, of course, had to be awarded by someone and following a proposal from the Irish Association, the referee was allowed on to the field of play. True to its gentlemanly beginnings, disputes were originally settled by the two team captains, but, as the stakes grew, so did the number of complaints.
 
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