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Old Fri Oct 08, 2004, 11:48am
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Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
I would go one step further. I would get rid of the off-side rule completely. It does nothing for the game except to protect a team whose defense has been beaten by the offense.

MTD, Sr.
I could go for that, but I'm sure we are defiling some ancient god of soccer.

BTW, visibility of offside with a crowd in the goal area is most difficult in the diagonal system. For that matter, visibility of anything with a crowd in the goal area.
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