Dumb rules in sports (10 Viewers)

Hobo said:

Rooney recently moved out of the path of the ball on the edge of the six yard box, the ball went in, goal. Why because he made no attempt to play the ball. Moving away from the balls path is not interfering even though he was between keeper and the ball.

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So in theory somebody could stand in front of the goalkeeper on a free kick and move out of the way? Surely blocking view is interfering with an opponent and thus offside? If he was in an offside position but out of the keepers view and didnt bother with the ball he wouldnt be offside.

Nick said:

So in theory somebody could stand in front of the goalkeeper on a free kick and move out of the way? Surely blocking view is interfering?

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When the rule first come in there was some interpretation around that. But the ruling changed it is around attempt to play the ball now. There was another Premiership goal recently where a player opened his legs to let the ball run through his legs into the net. If he had touched it he was off side, but because no attempt was made to play the ball....he was getting out of the way, the goal was allowed.

I'm a proponent of the "if they're not interfering with play they shouldn't be on the pitch" school of thought.

On video replays Id like to see each side get three appeals per game. In reality each would save one for the end in case and use an average of one a half. If combined with cracking down on hassling the ref on the pitch it might actually end up speeding up some games.

Golf is littered with silly rules and infringements of the rules. From hitting a perfect drive into a divot which hampers you massively to a perfect drive collecting mud on a ball which you cannot clean but will again massively impede your next shot. Then, if you find the green with your second which is a amazing shot and leave yourself a 5 footer for birdie, you discover that the fat fucker before you has left a spike mark right on your line which you cannot tap down. If you hit the putt on line it will hit the spike mark and probably veer off and if you try to go round it you will miss. But fear not, after you miss your putt and hole out, you can then tap it down so the player behind doesn't find it. However, they were right to ban the cheating sodding long putters being anchored, if for nothing else to stop tossers like Tim Clark and Keegan Bradley.

Hobo said:

When the rule first come in there was some interpretation around that. But the ruling changed it is around attempt to play the ball now. There was another Premiership goal recently where a player opened his legs to let the ball run through his legs into the net. If he had touched it he was off side, but because no attempt was made to play the ball....he was getting out of the way, the goal was allowed.

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The Herrera goal was given because in the opinion of the assistant Rooney wasn't blocking the keepers movement or blocking the keepers vision when the shot was taken.
If you are deemed to be obscuring the keepers view of the ball when the shot is taken you are deemed offside, even if then the ball goes nowhere near you.

The old ruling said a player could be given offside if he made a gesture or movement which distracted the keeper, Rooney would have been given offside in the old interpretation.


Personally I think if the ball comes within playing distance of you, you should be given offside even if you make no attempt to actually play the ball.

ccfcway said:

a multi billion pound industry like football, yet day after day the officials get crucial game changing decisons wrong and they cant be reversed, despite the watching public seeing a replay less than 5 seconds later to confirm if the decision was correct or not.

NI had a goal ruled out for no good reason at all in their game today.

Alos goes for diving as well !

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It's what makes football football though, I wouldn't change it.

The only offside should be the original. Anything less than 2 players and the goal when ball is first kicked is offside........Sick Boy, first thing you've ever said that I've 100% agreed with.

Otis said:

Yes, that's exactly what I am talking about. I am not talking about the umpire's original decision, I am talking about when it has been referred upstairs and is shown to be quite clearly hitting the stumps.

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Ah, but if less than 50% of the ball is hitting the stumps, that is defined as "not quite clearly".

GK off their lines for pens !

WHU GK saved a pen today at least 3 yrds off his line

That one whereby you can't take shed loads of drugs, get on a bike and cross the line before everybody else and still not be declared the 'winner'. What with the volume of traffic on the roads, pot holes and mobility scooters in your way, you need more than a helmet and a yellow jersey to help get you there.

SkyBlueSid said:

Exactly that happened at Highfield Road in 1998. We were playing Sheffield United in the FA Cup and a player called Marcello equalised right on half time. He took off his shirt to celebrate and threw it to someone, but had an identical one on underneath.

I am not sure if he got a yellow card. Probably not as it may not have been a mandatory card back then.

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He didn't get a yellow card http://www.11v11.com/matches/coventry-city-v-sheffield-united-07-march-1998-25566/

Off topic: When you look at those 2 teams, how we failed to beat them over 2 matches I'll never know

oscillatewildly said:

That one whereby you can't take shed loads of drugs, get on a bike and cross the line before everybody else and still not be declared the 'winner'. What with the volume of traffic on the roads, pot holes and mobility scooters in your way, you need more than a helmet and a yellow jersey to help get you there.

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Just hide behind others until the right time, easy.....

Blocking an attacker by standing still knowing you are only in for a yellow. Ala the challenge on Obrien yesterday.