Is the offside trap 'anti' football? Offcourse it is!!!

[futbol>>>IRAN]

I believe that the offside trap when players pushing up in a straight line to get a player attacking offside is anti football for a number of reasons:

1) It limits the amount of space a footballer can run after the ball

2) It prevents more goals being scored in a game

3) It is not always the right decision that is made by the referees.

Now dont get me wrong Im not saying we should eradicate the offside rule, all I am saying is that when a player is running after the ball from a pass cross or trough ball the defenders should not be able to run infront to get the player offside.

Like in basket ball once you have crossed the halfway with the ball you cannot go back. This makes the game faster and more attacking and therefore more entertaining.

here is an example:

------def1-----def2----attacker2 (recievers)---def4--------def4
----------------------attacker 1 (passer)

as attacker 1 passes to attacker 2 defenders 1,2,3 and 4 should not be allowed to push forward before the attacker 2 recieves the ball..
Some may argue that this is smart but its not, this is ANTI football and takes aways the attacking exitement of the game.

Im sure we would like to go to football matches and seeing more than one goal scored!

Football should be working to avoid nil all draws and low scoring matches rather than supporting it.

[PersianMadrid7]

I hate watching defenders play the offside trap.

This is 1 rule that should be put in place to stop defenders from purposely putting the attacker in offside.
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Another thing Pele pointed out was this:

When a player is fouled while on a break away outside of the penalty box, defenders shouldn't be allowed to come back, create a wall and get ready for the free-kick. They should stay where they were and wait for the restart, this way the attackers hard work isn't put to waste because someone decided to illegally stop him.

[futbol>>>IRAN]

I hate watching defenders play the offside trap.
This is 1 rule that should be put in place to stop defenders from purposely putting the attacker in offside.
_________
Another thing Pele pointed out was this:
When a player is fouled while on a break away outside of the penalty box, defenders shouldn't be allowed to come back, create a wall and get ready for the free-kick. They should stay where they were and wait for the restart, this way the attackers hard work isn't put to waste because someone decided to illegally stop him.

interesting point pele put forward. I never thought about that till now.

When you think about it.. it doesn' tmake sense because anywhere eles on the park that you are fouled the ref just blows his whistle and play goes on quickly!!

[PersianMadrid7]

interesting point pele put forward. I never thought about that till now.
When you think about it.. it doesn' tmake sense because anywhere eles on the park that you are fouled the ref just blows his whistle and play goes on quickly!!

exactly... basically what the defender is doing by taking the attacker down is putting a wall in front of him.

that's not even logical.

[soheil86]

football>>>iran you said the offside trap is not smart,in fact it is.and i disagree.this is football if you want to entertain yourself go watch movies or entertainment sports(wrestling,etc.).football is not just a sport.football includes drama,it makes some happy some sad some rich some poor.and the drama is what makes football the best sport.

[persiangodfather]

its fine the way it is but when in doubt or questionable call the advantage shud be to the attacker

[futbol>>>IRAN]

football>>>iran you said the offside trap is not smart,in fact it is.and i disagree.this is football if you want to entertain yourself go watch movies or entertainment sports(wrestling,etc.).football is not just a sport.football includes drama,it makes some happy some sad some rich some poor.and the drama is what makes football the best sport.

if football wasn't entertaining it wouldn't have so much fans.

What I am trying to do is make the fan base even bigger.

It is a bs rule which ruins the flow and speed of the game.

I dont even know why I bothered replying to u drop kick.

[persian boy]

if there was no offside rule, Khatibi would get a hattrick every game

[taha]

if there was no offside rule, Khatibi would get a hattrick every game

futbol>>>iran isnt syin to get rid of the offside rule but for the offside trap to be made illegal..meanin the defenders should not be allowed to move forward just before the ball is passed to the striker to catch him offside. there is a litte diagram further up.

[ScepticILL]

No, you're totally wrong dude! Football is defense and attack! If you disadvantage the defense in the whole game (ie change the rules) football will become boring with lots of goals.

I'll say it again:

Have you watched beach soccer? They score like 20 goals, and a lot of them very acrobatic, but beach soccer is booooooooooring. If you make something easy to achive, that something loses value. It's just like money, if you print off loads and loads of money, and everyone has lots of it, money will lose it's value.

Defense is not anti-football. Teams that only defend as a means of winning/drawing is anti-football. There's a difference... What we need to do is get rid of rules that favor anti-football playing teams (eg South Korea in ac), rather than get rid of rules that favor defense (because defense is also beautiful.) What's an example? Getting rid of penalty shootouts! As we saw, South Korea didn't score one goal in the whole entire knockout stage, and they got 3rd! How pathetic is that?

Besides the offside rules is beautiful, perfect, effective rules, which introduces a whole range of tactics which are pleasing to watch.

[ScepticILL]

I hate watching defenders play the offside trap.
This is 1 rule that should be put in place to stop defenders from purposely putting the attacker in offside.
_________
Another thing Pele pointed out was this:
When a player is fouled while on a break away outside of the penalty box, defenders shouldn't be allowed to come back, create a wall and get ready for the free-kick. They should stay where they were and wait for the restart, this way the attackers hard work isn't put to waste because someone decided to illegally stop him.

Why shouldn't defenders take advantage of the trap? The rule was brought in to help defenders, because to many goals were being scored, so now we're saying defenders shouldn't use the offside trap? It's almost as if this whole "anti-football" talk by fifa has enticed hate against defenders. Don't hate defense, hate teams that play anti-football.

[futbol>>>IRAN]

Why shouldn't defenders take advantage of the trap? The rule was brought in to help defenders, because to many goals were being scored, so now we're saying defenders shouldn't use the offside trap? It's almost as if this whole "anti-football" talk by fifa has enticed hate against defenders. Don't hate defense, hate teams that play anti-football.

make sure you read a thread carefully before you talk next time.. you are talking rubbish

[ScepticILL]

Nice work ignoring all my points that post wasn't even a reply to you. If I'm talking rubbish, then respond to my earlier post:

No, you're totally wrong dude! Football is defense and attack! If you disadvantage the defense in the whole game (ie change the rules) football will become boring with lots of goals.

I'll say it again:

Have you watched beach soccer? They score like 20 goals, and a lot of them very acrobatic, but beach soccer is booooooooooring. If you make something easy to achive, that something loses value. It's just like money, if you print off loads and loads of money, and everyone has lots of it, money will lose it's value.

Defense is not anti-football. Teams that only defend as a means of winning/drawing is anti-football. There's a difference... What we need to do is get rid of rules that favor anti-football playing teams (eg South Korea in ac), rather than get rid of rules that favor defense (because defense is also beautiful.) What's an example? Getting rid of penalty shootouts! As we saw, South Korea didn't score one goal in the whole entire knockout stage, and they got 3rd! How pathetic is that?

Besides the offside rules is beautiful, perfect, effective rules, which introduces a whole range of tactics which are pleasing to watch.

[Ali]

if there was no offside rule, Khatibi would get a hattrick every game

[Ali]

well the offside trap is a good tactic espcially for weeker teams and football is interesting when teams can perform it and more interesting when good players avoid it.