1st Feb, 12:23 am
I wasn't aware until you mentioned that a new rule(s) had been in placed, though I thought I had responded back when I originally read this. (yet I didn't)
That I agree with though, seems more to make up for the errors the linesman/refs tend to make by saying if a player isn't interfering but in beyond the last defender then he's free to score which could get very crazy. I recall Liverpool playing a few years back, three of their players had burst past the oppositions defense. The ball was down the wing, as the two other players was running into the box. The player with the ball shot towards goal (which ended up being more of a cross) and one of the others tapped it in. I think Ryan Babel was the player who scored, 3 - 1 I think it was.
^ How the heck that isn't offside I don't know but I think more goes towards the end of games, especially when the ref doesn't think it would make a difference.
That I agree with though, seems more to make up for the errors the linesman/refs tend to make by saying if a player isn't interfering but in beyond the last defender then he's free to score which could get very crazy. I recall Liverpool playing a few years back, three of their players had burst past the oppositions defense. The ball was down the wing, as the two other players was running into the box. The player with the ball shot towards goal (which ended up being more of a cross) and one of the others tapped it in. I think Ryan Babel was the player who scored, 3 - 1 I think it was.
^ How the heck that isn't offside I don't know but I think more goes towards the end of games, especially when the ref doesn't think it would make a difference.