SHOULD THE OFFSIDE RULE BE SCRAPPED?

they introduced the offside law to make the game more open, the number of goals more than doubled after the offside law was introduced.

sorry i got my figures wrong

The change to the offside rule led to an immediate increase in goal-scoring. 4,700 goals were scored in 1,848 Football League games in 1924–25. This number rose to 6,373 goals (from the same number of games) in 1925–26.

TIMES CHANGE THOUGH DANI BOY, THERE WAS NO INTERNET IN THE 1920'S. THERE WOULD BE LESS TIME WASTED ARGUING WHETHER A GOAL WAS OFFISDE OR NOT.

it would defo make for some quality goal hanging, Gary Linekar wouldnt of left the box.

would be stupid to scrap it, will get crappy teams winning against good teams, its technical it will be like play ground football

its the hardest rule ever to officiate but its hard to find an alternative.

DAN1974,

The offside rule was not introduced in the 1925.  It was changed so that there need to be two, rather than three, defending players closer to the goal-line than the opposing player, which would obviously be a major factor in increasing goals.

In 1990 they changed it so that being "level" was onside, which was the first major change in all that time.  Since then the interpretation (rather than the basis of the offside law) has been fiddled with many times, primarily to deal with the problem of whether a player is interfering with play.


To return to the original question, they experimented with removing offside in the Conference once and it was considered unsuccessful.

They should add an offside line halfway into each half like they have in Subbuteo. Being offside five yards into the opposition half no longer needs to be penalised.