Do you Understand the Offside Rule in Football?

I used to.

And then they changed it.

Wait, what? what's the difference?

It's all to do with active play and zones and stuff, or something.

Oh, it was that defending players deliberately playing the ball or something wasn't it?

i don't know.

I thought I knew, but I've had to change my vote now,

This is Wikipedia's page on the offside rule. All we have to do is see if it ties in with our understanding of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offside_(association_football)

I always thought it was when the ball went over the white line on the side of the pitch. Then someone tried to explain it to me and I stopped listening after the first couple of words.

I do understand it, and I think the new stuff about active play is merely a formalisation of the old custom and practice, that there was only an offence if the player who was offside then received the ball and did something that was advantageous to their side.

Btw I think they should go back to 2 points for a win, and allowing the goalie to pick up back-passes, and just having big numbers on shirts. 1981 standards basically.