Football Focus

[Sharon_H]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Well in Pompey. Made up for you Ratty.

>

> Oh and Arsenal, win the league for me. ;-)

Ditto! Twice!

[RosieH]

Men pretend the offside rule is complicated. Tonight I have learned that it has nothing whatever to do with ketchup, salt cellars and HP sauce, and everything to do with how many defenders between you and the goal. Does this mean that parallel parking and single malts are also ridiculously straightforward?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Of course they are, but don't let on we know. A little ego massaging never goes astray.

[????]

...go an put the kettle on, there's a lovie

[Ladygooner]

Thanks for the good wishes from Merseyside!

[brum]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Men pretend the offside rule is complicated.

> Tonight I have learned that it has nothing

> whatever to do with ketchup, salt cellars and HP

> sauce, and everything to do with how many

> defenders between you and the goal. Does this

> mean that parallel parking and single malts are

> also ridiculously straightforward?

Get the condiments back out of the cupboard Rosie ..... It's not a matter of the number of defenders... There only needs to be one...! See, it's even simpler than you imagined...!

[RosieH]

I know it Brum, I know it - I learned it see.

[kpc]

Which is more than many a linesman has bothered to do.

LB - football is not just about the game itself, but also the camaraderie of supporting a team, the people you go to the games with and the people you meet along the way. And the beer.

[Jah Lush]

Annasfield Wrote: ---------------------- Oh and Arsenal, win the league for me. ;-)

Nooooo! We'd never hear the last of it from Atila The Arsehole.

[legalbeagle]

Hmmm. Well ok then. Perhaps I'll try though I refuse to support a team that has too many babies and too much money. I shall give it some thought.

[RosieH - you can also read maps, change a plug and light a barbie without much bother but don't let on!]

[brum]

Ok ladies so how about returning the favour and teach us boys, say, the profound complexity that is colour co-ordination?

[kpc]

LB - avoiding a team with too much money is pretty easy nowadays; too much debt is another matter. Also avoid teams where the players are wearing fancy coloured boots. Boots should be black.

I'm with PGC on this, go local - Dulwich Hamlet or Millwall.

[SimonM]

Offside rule - never forget the magic words "when the ball is played"!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Blue and green should never be seen.

Or green and white hoops.

[brum]

Thanks PGC is that it? I thought there was more to it!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

If I told you more, I'd have to kill you.

[ruffers]

brum Wrote:

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> RosieH Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Men pretend the offside rule is complicated.

> > Tonight I have learned that it has nothing

> > whatever to do with ketchup, salt cellars and

> HP

> > sauce, and everything to do with how many

> > defenders between you and the goal. Does this

> > mean that parallel parking and single malts are

> > also ridiculously straightforward?

>

>

> Get the condiments back out of the cupboard Rosie

> ..... It's not a matter of the number of

> defenders... There only needs to be one...! See,

> it's even simpler than you imagined...!

Er, sorry to interrupt, but for clarification there needs to be two defending players.

[kpc]

To quote FIFA:

Offside Position

It is not an offence in itself to be in an offside position.

A player is in an offside position if:

? he is nearer to his opponents? goal line than both the ball and the

second-last opponent

A player is not in an offside position if:

? he is in his own half of the fi eld of play or

? he is level with the second-last opponent or

? he is level with the last two opponents

Offence

A player in an offside position is only penalised if, at the moment the ball

touches or is played by one of his team, he is, in the opinion of the referee,

involved in active play by:

? interfering with play or

? interfering with an opponent or

? gaining an advantage by being in that position

No Offence

There is no offside offence if a player receives the ball directly from:

? a goal kick

? a throw-in

? a corner kick

And they've even set it to music.

Law 11 explained set to music

[Ladymuck]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> LB - this is wrong? Why?

>

> http://s.bebo.com/app-image/7929041692/5411656627/

> PROFILE/i.quizzaz.com/img/q/u/08/04/20/george_best

> .jpg

My hero for 35 years...so delish...(RIP Georgie)

LB...if you cannot appreciate this, then you are in a coma...

[Ladymuck]

*prods LB*

wake up, wake up;-)

[Sandperson]

What are all these women doing in here? ::o

[????]

It's a parrallell universe for post 1996 football .....bah humbug.

[Sandperson]

I blame Gazza.

[????]

Yup...the rot started in 1990. I remember the days when liking football in was something you generally kept quiet in 'middle class' white collar occupations.

[Jah Lush]

I blame George Best.