Let's get rid of the offside rule?

Question

Lets open up the game and entice more one on ones. Allow the brilliant and fit ball runners take on defences and open up the game. instead of playing the game in 50 metres only lets use the whole park. get rid of the offside rule. See more goals more dribbling more one on ones faster more exciting games.

I watch brazilian beach soccer and indoor soccer many goals excitement skill and flair... can it be imposed into the big game??? I think maybe it can if we get rid of off sides.. then we see games with score lines where result is not dependant one one refereee decsion.

Answer 1

This has been proposed many times before, always by people who would like to see more goals scored.

It's a phallacy -- one of the great beauties of real football is that it is a LOW scoring game, which makes it unpredictable because a goal really counts, it's of capital importance -- whereas in high-scoring games a point or two are usually irrelevant.

Changing or eliminating the offside rule would bring the sport closer to those stupefyingly predictable games so loved in the U.S. Thank you, but no, thanks.

Answer 2

There are many reasons why most Americans HATE soccer. (Faking injuries is the biggest one for this country's sports fans who appreciate athletes that play through pain, never complain about it and on many occasions never discuss injuries). Another major reason is the silly "Offside Rule".

The "Offside Rule" is an invention that smacks of communism/socialism. It penalizes the player who is able to elude the man who marked him. It subsidizes a defensive scheme that has failed. If the Offside Rule were removed no player would "camp" out at goal because it hurts his team on the rest of the field/pitch.

How many times have superb players been penalized for eluding opponents by mere inches? If a defender can't stay with a more gifted opponent then that's his problem and he shouldn't look to the referee like a child does to her mommy after dropping an ice cream cone.

Soccer would be more exciting without the offside rule. Today's goals mostly come by flukes and penalties. Penalties are called because so many players feel they must flop/dive in order to get the referee's help since goals are so hard to come by.

Many times the better team has lost a 1-0 game because of a ridiculous goal that had no relation to the rest of the maddeningly boring 90 minutes.

Elimination of the Offside Rule will get rid of many flops, add more scoring and enhance excitement. We must take the game out of the referee's hands and leave it to the players.

Elimination of the rule might also spare soccer the ridicule, jokes and laughs it gets in the United States.

Answer 3

Getting rid of the offiside rule would be a disaster. It'd just encourage strikers to 'goal hang' and stand around on the line. Far from making the game more exciting, it'd actually do the opposite.

Answer 4

I agree the ofside rule is infuriating, especially wen your player makes a good run and is subsiquently denied!

Answer 5

if we get rid of the offside rules
then we'll see many defenders waiting in zone
they'll just sit their ass waiting for the forward opponent

Answer 6

"stupid thought"
Getting red of the offside rule would be getting rid of the game ,

Answer 7

u wanna play streetball punk???there r rules 4 every game

Answer 8

no we need the rule to keep the players honest ,,

Answer 9

Sounds very "american" and idiotic.

Answer 10

then we can call it american football instead......rite?