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ontd_football...The new 50p coin explaining the offside rule has been released - and it's got it wrong!
Full details at the Guardian
I fail to see how this clears anything up, actually. Where's the midfielder??????
Here's an excerpt:
The football coin – half a million of which are now in circulation – shows a midfielder about to pass to one of two team-mates [Where?? Where's the effing midfielder??], with the first player, on the left, marked as offside, and the second, level with the defender, not offside. But the diagram appears to illustrate the offside law as it was until 1995, when it was overhauled by the International FA Board to reduce the number of stoppages in matches.
The revision to the law meant that any player in an offside position when the ball is played is no longer automatically penalised. It states: "It is not an offence in itself to be in an offside position."
Instead, for the past 17 years assistant referees have been told to wait and see whether a player in an offside position becomes involved in active play, either by "interfering with play, or interfering with an opponent, or by gaining an advantage by being in that position". That means that if the midfielder on the coin passes to the striker on his left, but the striker chooses not to play the ball or interfere with an opponent, he is not offside and play continues.*
The Royal Mint says the coin was designed "to provoke discussion", but the Referees' Association member Mal Davies, who works with the former head of Premier League referees Keith Hackett on the Observer's long-running You are the Ref feature, said using such old information was "embarrassing".
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*Well don't feel too bad. Half the referees in the Spanish game haven't heard about the change either.
Franz Beckenbauer is apparently heading up a commission to "simplify" the rule. If you could change something about the offside rule, what would it be?
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Date: 2012-01-06 12:11 pm (UTC)So there.
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Date: 2012-01-06 12:59 pm (UTC)Well it has the basics then, I think.
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Date: 2012-01-06 01:19 pm (UTC)so awful
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Date: 2012-01-06 04:42 pm (UTC)i think it looks like lisa simpson giving a blow job tbh
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Date: 2012-01-06 05:01 pm (UTC)Lol @ the bureaucratic bs explanation - which translates to "we have no idea but we thought it looked cool/was less hideous than the other designs" etc. :D
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Date: 2012-01-06 03:58 pm (UTC)LOL Yes, when I think of organizations that like to stoke the fires of discussion on a variety of subjects, the Royal Mint is usually the one I think of first.
If you could change something about the offside rule, what would it be?
A) I would change the number of jokes about women not knowing the offside rule to zero. B) I would put Sian Massey in charge of all offside calls for the entire league since she knows it. C) I would ask that sideline technology and instant reply come into effect to deal with errors in judgment about whether or not a player was offside. So I wouldn't actually change the rule so much as the ~*~ offside culture ~*~ surrounding it.
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Date: 2012-01-06 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-06 04:16 pm (UTC)I think I would get rid of the interfering with play bit. Far too subjective.
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Date: 2012-01-06 04:33 pm (UTC)Loved the Villa one though. :D
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Date: 2012-01-06 05:20 pm (UTC)The smaller one in the Guardian was impossible to understand. You can actually see the ball in this one and the elusive midfielder is actually a tiny triangle!
I hope this coin is a large one? At any rate - it must be better than the picture above.
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Date: 2012-01-06 05:58 pm (UTC)i can't wait for when the fans starts chucking these at the linemen for the bad calls they make and fail to make on a daily basis :P, and before long they have to make a new rule, like, linesmen have to wear helmets to avoid head injuries :P
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Date: 2012-01-07 05:54 am (UTC)Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get one as change, lol....
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Date: 2012-01-07 05:55 am (UTC)lol when I saw a picture a few days ago, I thought it was a shop! XD Now I'm going to be looking at the backs of my coins more often than usual!
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:07 am (UTC)Link to Royal Mint page
Date: 2012-01-07 02:05 pm (UTC)There's a video with the journalist who designed the Offside coin, and you can take a look at all the other sports as well, if you wish.