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"Football Rule Debate : Just a quickie"

Can you be offside from a goal kick?

Eh...?

Can you be offside from a goal kick?

Eh...?

Yes

A goal kick is just the same as an indirect free kick?

Yep.He is right

I've always wondered, when the opposing team have a free kick or something, why the entire team don't just get behind the ball. Everyone would be offside. Is there some rule against that?

No, but I'd assume the team with the free kick would all just get behind the ball also. And then the free kick taker could kick the ball 30 yards up the pitch and hope there's someone on his team fast enough to get to the ball; someone who could then have a clear run in on goal.

Would be interesting to see in action, something like that. It's definitely legal, anyway.

I've seen something similar tried on a Sunday League pitch, but that was from open play. Basically the team in question tried to defend so far up the pitch, almost on the half-way line, that the other team were all boxed up in their own half.

It may have worked had their defenders been a bit quicker.

You can't apparently.

You can't be offside in yuor own half.

Blank wrote:
> I've always wondered, when the opposing team have a free kick or
> something, why the entire team don't just get behind the ball.
> Everyone would be offside. Is there some rule against that?

No, Sunderland did it against Middlesborugh on Sunday.

I wish they would scrap the offside rule with freekicks. A freekick is given so that you have an advantage of scoring. Sometimes you'll be given an indirect freekcik with you not able to score, so what advantage do you have when you have to pass it and can be offside?

Foreman wrote:
> No, Sunderland did it against Middlesborugh on Sunday.

They didn't get behind the ball, they just ran forwards as the player took the free kick. Slightly different.