Guest Stephen927 Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 FIFA are considering scrapping the offside rule, according to a report in The Times. The newspaper reports that FIFA president Sepp Blatter has discussed what would be the most radical rule change in the sport for decades. Blatter has apparently spoken to the president of the International Hockey Federation, Leandro Nagre, about how hockey abolished the rule in the 1990s. "He asked me a lot of questions about it and how successful it was, although he never offered an opinion, so it was difficult to judge what football might do," said Negre. "But he did seem very interested in how we had implemented it." The offside rule in hockey was abolished in 1998 after a trial period two years earlier, a move which has been credited with making the game more free-flowing and exciting as a spectacle. Veteran BBC sports commentator Barry Davies firmly believed that it would be a great move for football. "I would love to see it given a trial in the lower leagues," he said. "It would probably take a long time for players to adjust. It's also very demanding physically, but I was amazed at how quickly hockey adapted and there's no doubt the game is better for it." Davies believes that the abolition of offside is not the only rule that football could borrow from hockey, suggesting that the green card - which leads to a two minutes in the sin bin for players - would also work well. Toby Keel / Eurosport http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/02032010/58/world-cup-2010-fifa-ponder-scrapping-offsides.html The offside rule adds structure to the game, it is necessary. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MW Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 didn't they try that at the 94 world cup? I think giving an offside decision simply because a player has his arm ahead of the last defender is kinda daft. I think an experiment is a good thing. And I agree with the opinion that the game would flow more. Bad news for teams like newcastle that possess not one ounce of creativity in them, though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikri Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Would be a stupid move, most teams would just end up with two big target men who never leave the 6 yard box waiting for the ball to be hoofed through to them. Defending teams would have to leave 2-3 defenders back at all times to counter them. You wouldn't end up with more free-flowing attractive football, you'd end up with Fat Sam-style hoofball. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 BIG SAM will be :fwap: :fwap: :fwap: :fwap: :fwap: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David28 Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Would be a stupid move, most teams would just end up with two big target men who never leave the 6 yard box waiting for the ball to be hoofed through to them. Defending teams would have to leave 2-3 defenders back at all times to counter them. You wouldn't end up with more free-flowing attractive football, you'd end up with Fat Sam-style hoofball. Exactly what I wanted to say tbh. Offside is needed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 ahh yes, the moocher will be back en vogue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby_solano Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Would be a stupid move, most teams would just end up with two big target men who never leave the 6 yard box waiting for the ball to be hoofed through to them. Defending teams would have to leave 2-3 defenders back at all times to counter them. You wouldn't end up with more free-flowing attractive football, you'd end up with Fat Sam-style hoofball. Exactly what I wanted to say tbh. Offside is needed. yup. not good. blatter doesn't half spout some Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Aye american style long pass football with big twats like Eric Samber being hailed as awesome. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 I don't know, offside rule should apply as normal when the ball is in your own half, but once you have the ball into the opposition's half, then it doesn't apply. This would perhaps ward off overly hoofball-style football as well as implementing the openness to the game whoever's proposed this seems to crave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 There's off side in hockey EDIT: Suppose they're talking about red line off side. Pretty big fucking difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Would be madness to remove the offside rule - people just need to suck it up and accept that sometimes linesmen make mistakes. We could help them out by simplfying the rule so that a touch on the ball is required for offside, or alternatively that everyone in an offside position counts. It's the 'intefering with play' thing that's got everyone up in arms. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stephen927 Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Would be madness to remove the offside rule - people just need to suck it up and accept that sometimes linesmen make mistakes. We could help them out by simplfying the rule so that a touch on the ball is required for offside, or alternatively that everyone in an offside position counts. It's the 'intefering with play' thing that's got everyone up in arms. True, the rule just needs to be simplified. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 It simply is not football without the offsides. Have any of you ever played in a recreational match with old people who spend the entire match in the other teams penalty box? It is awful. They may as well get rid of handball ruling as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wacko Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Doesn't hockey have a rule whereby you can only pass a certain length of the field? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Awful idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 It will no doubt end up like playground football, just kick the ball up as far as you can and let the moochers fight over who gets to score. Awful idea. On the other hand, the "sin bin" is not such an awful idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Doesn't hockey have a rule whereby you can only pass a certain length of the field? I don't see how hockey applies in anyway to football though. Hockey is a much faster game played in a much smaller area. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Doesn't hockey have a rule whereby you can only pass a certain length of the field? The puck must cross the blue line before any player, basically. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aphrodite Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 All the decision makers at FIFA practically ignore everything Sepp Blatter says now, so I can't see this happening. There have been trials with scrapping offside traps in the past and they have been pretty awful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDiablo Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 As inventors of the game we should be able to call the shots and not some old swiss cockend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Oh it'll never happen. Blatter is a joker who just says this shit for effect 99% of the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 ^ That. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulivye Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Would be madness to remove the offside rule - people just need to suck it up and accept that sometimes linesmen make mistakes. We could help them out by simplfying the rule so that a touch on the ball is required for offside, or alternatively that everyone in an offside position counts. It's the 'intefering with play' thing that's got everyone up in arms. agreed. do something about the diving before you tamper w/ scrapping the offsides rule. imo, the modern game of fottball has (d)evolved past the effectiveness of the gentlemen's rules of association football. now that there's big money at stake, fair play has gone out the window--just ask thierry henry. something needs done about the yellow/red card system first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Wtf man This is not even possible, the game wouldn't resemble football if this was to happen. Gotta be a wind up for sure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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