In football, a player is in an offside position if he/she is past the opponents last line of defense once the ball is released. In short, they are offside if nearer to the opponents' goal line than ...

The NFL has a lot of rules and a lot of penalties, and it can be hard to keep up. We explain some of the common rules that ...

Arsene Wenger, FIFA’s chief of global football development, is championing a major change to football’s offside law. The former Arsenal manager first proposed his “daylight” rule in 2020, aiming to ...

The worrying news that Taiwo Awoniyi has been placed in an induced coma following surgery on a serious abdominal injury will sharpen the focus even more on how it happened. The rule has to be changed.

Referee Gilbert Cheruiyot indicates an offside during their FKF Premier League match on February 18, 2023 at the Nyayo National Stadium. [Kelly Ayodi, Standard] The offside rule is one of the most ...

Soccer, otherwise known as football, is a relatively simple sport. Eleven players play on each team who, aside from the goalkeeper, can't touch the ball with their hands and must put the ball in the ...

We've seen it time and time again this season from those Highbury boys in red. Freddie Ljungberg or Patrick Vieira pick the ball up in midfield, look up and thread the ball through the opposition's ...

This article may have Spanish-language video from our Telemundo sister station. Get the latest World Cup news in Spanish from Telemundo. NBC Universal, Inc. World Cup soccer is back again, which means ...

March 25 (Reuters) - Former Netherlands forward Marco van Basten has called on football's lawmakers to consider scrapping the offside rule, saying the sport would be better off without it. The game ...

Dec 4 (Reuters) - FIFA wants to improve the offside rule, currently the source of frequent controversy, but it is difficult to find a consensus among the experts discussing the matter, the head of the ...