The idea behind that rule is that a striker should not just hang around in front of the goal.
That may lead to just long passes to the front, and not a nice gameplay overall.

Therefore the most front a striker can be, should be as far as the last defender. (not exactly the rule).

This could’ve been the rule, but it is just defined a little different: The most front a striker can be, is as far as the second last opponent (since there is usually a goalie).

Now, when mustn’t a striker stand there: Not never, but at the moment of a pass towards him.

As you are allowed to hang around without participating, sometimes you still have an influence on the game by interacting. For example you dodge a shot towards the goal. Now the goalie does not know, that you will dodge and has to consider both scenarios. In this case, even if you did not hit the ball, or even did not move for dodging, you have intereferred, and if you were offside, at the moment of the shot, it will be offside.

I guess that is most of it.

When you receive the ball in the opponents half, there must be a minimum of two defending players between you and the goal. One is usually the goalkeeper, the other a outfield player.

That’s the most basic explanation I can give, there are lots of caveats and details however.

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As long as the ball is always traveling backwards a try can be awarded

What I would say is you should ask your boyfriend. I’m sure he’d enjoy explaining aspects of his hobby to you.

I’ve been watching and playing football for 45 years - but now have no idea what Offside is any more.

Do you know basketball, OP? Imagine a player camping out under the basket while the play is taking place at the opposite end? He is hoping for a long pass so that he can score an uncontested basket. This is legal, because there is no offside rule in basketball.

The spirit of the offside rule in football is to preclude the possibility of similar behavior. The theory is, no camping out in unfairly advantageous territory.

However, the application of the rule is way more convoluted. And VAR has transformed it from the policing of unfair advantages to the forensic parsing of molecular structures.

In other words, I have no idea what offside means anymore.

Watch ‘Bend it Like Beckham’.

Offside position is any position past the second last opponent towards the goal line. Whether or not someone is in an offside position is objective, factual, and can be determined by technology.

Offside offence is the coming into play of someone who was in an offside position when the ball was played. Whether or not someone has committed an offside offence is subject to interpretation and can only be determined by a human being.

I’m just glad OP didn’t call it Offsides! 🥳

if the attacking player kicks a ball to their teammate, in the moment the ball is kicked, the pass receiving player has to have two enemy players being closer to the goal. in 99% of the cases it’s the goalkeeper and one enemy defender. but it doesn’t have to be like that

It’s when a defender plays for a certain team and then the officials and league try to see if they like that team or don’t really care enough

And so, in summary, no one can explain the current offside rule. End of story.

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My wife’s interpretation of the rule: The player is offside if the linesman pits his flag up.

This is not always the case anymore.

Ask your bf pls. We are not your bf