Mike Dean Stuffed Us Yet Again.

[ealingfox]

Thought you couldn't be offside in your own half though?

[pleatout]

You cant.  But you can be in an offside position when the ball is played by a member of your own team by being in your opponents half  and running back into your own half to recieve the ball.  The free kick is given where you recieve the ball (ie in your half) not where you were when the offence was committed (ie in your opponents half)

 

[ealingfox]

Ah, fair point.

[pleatout]

Twas clarified last year as the wording of the law said take the kick where the offense occured, which is actually 2 places, one in each half.  Confused?  That's the FA/FIFA

[filbertway]

There were 4 goals scored in the first half right? Even allowing for just 30 seconds for celebrations, there's 2 minutes right there without considering anything else.

[jammie82uk]

22 hours ago, ealingfox said:

Thought you couldn't be offside in your own half though?

 

22 hours ago, pleatout said:

You cant.  But you can be in an offside position when the ball is played by a member of your own team by being in your opponents half  and running back into your own half to recieve the ball.  The free kick is given where you recieve the ball (ie in your half) not where you were when the offence was committed (ie in your opponents half)

 

This was debated at work and we came to the same conclusion in the end 

the only thing that mudded the waters was the Ozil offside at the end 

he was originally offside about 10/15 yards inside our half the flag never went up he then chased and touched the ball about 20/25 yards from the corner flag, the offside flag did then go up 

the free kick was taken from where he was originally offside and not where he touched the ball