Passive offside

25-January-2005

[ Sports & Leisure ]

Sounds like a strange concept. And it is. passive offside is football rule which allows a player to be offside (if you don't know what offside is you will probably be better off going to the next post) if they are not involved in play. Trouble is how you interpret passiveness. Why am 5 going on about it. Because on Saturday Werder Bremen lost 2-1 to Shalke and the player who scored the goal - ex Werder striker Ailton - was judged to be passively offside when the killer pass was made despite the fact he was only about a meter from the ball.

I don't blame the referee - its the rule which needs sorting out.

Otherwise a good game which as so often this season werder could and should have won. Ah well - there's still the Champions League to aim for.

Note to ed-tech people who have syndicated the Wales Wide Web. Sorry about this, but one of the quirks of Wales wide Web is a weekly footy slot. Hope you enjoy it.


Graham Attwell; 25-January-2005 08:55:43;