10
SEE TEE'S SERIES ON
The Laws Of Association Football
10. THE OFFSIDE LAW
When a player plays the ball, by kicking it, heading it on He way, etc., any player of his own side, who is nearer to his opponents' gont-line is offside, unless he has two opponents between him and the goal-line or he is within his own half of the field.
He is also exempt from being offside when the player with the ball is taking a corner-kick, goni-kick, or a throw-in.
There is very litle more than that T In the all-Important offside law, yet 1 is an absolutely sure nesertion that enly very nati percentage of players understand it, and a stil! Amaller proportion of the football 'crowel.
AT THE MOMENT....
If such practices became a regular feature of football it would mean that there would be less thought and energy directed towards play- Ing the game, and more to trickery nul cajolery,
Last week's soccer inw problem dent with an incident in which forward nisted a defender into let-
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ing "Right". The lefender was under the impression think one of hile team-mates (most likely the keeper) was better placed than and waiting to take the ball,
The crux of the law is the post-ting the ball pass simply by about- tions of the players of both sides AT THE MOMENT THE BALL IS PLAYED, What happens after that does not affect the question ol whether or not a player is offside; the only thing that has to be taken: into account after the tall is play-
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Law 12 authorises the award an tulirect free-kick for ungentle.
award in the instance referred to,
ed, that is, while it is traveling manly conduct, which is the proper
along the ground or Utroligh the nir, is whether the player who de offside in any way interferes with the play or seeks to galų nelvantage from his offside position.
This question as to whether he should be penalised is left entirely to the Referee: he is the sole judge,
Usually, however, there is very Nitle doubl of a player being in an offside position, If a forward Is lying well upfeld all he has to da to ensure that he is onside 15 to keep two opponents between him and the goal-line.
Remember, the goal-line stretches from corner-flag to comer-flag and the goal-keeper is usually one the two opponents preserthed by the law. Should the goalkeeper leave his goal, however, the "two op-
proviso Ponents"
Applies to Any
other twa members of the side.
FALLACIES
The old fuliocy still persists among a lot of forwards that if they He alongside the secund opponent they are safe. Yet it is very obvious that if the defender-48 in 1 with him he is not nearer to the goal- line.
Another popular fallney which persists is thinf whereby a full-back, who moves upheld AFTER the ball is kicked, thinks he puts a forward) outside.
THIS WEEK'S POSER
Here is this week's problem.
When a penilly kick is taken, an attacking forward stands right on his opponenta goal-line, just mutside the pennity aren. The ill strikes the goal-post, from which it boumis to the forward who is stel- ing ราก the goal-ne. The Eon1. keeper does not touch it.
Shudd the Referee nike any ne- tion when the forward moves play the ball?
NEW OLYMPIC IDEA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
1948.
SPORTS FEATURES FLAGS MARK THE
HUNGARIA'S BRIEF INTERLUDE
ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS MAY HAVE OWN “GAMES” (By Archie Quick)
front the The Olymple Flame has died and apart boxing squabbles, the Games have gone through with a serene calm hut because of these fistic troubles there may be very serious repercussions in the future.
When Judges of the Olymple 400 metres relay race disqualified the United States team for legal passing, a round dozen-men were presented with the wrong medals.
Here they are in the moment of glory. Some 48 hours later, when films of the race had been studied, the American team were in get their gold medals after all.
Elght of the sprinters in this pleture did get a medal, the four Magyars on the right falling out of the pleture. An unhappy moment for, against one of the finest spriut relay felds in Olymple history, It was quite a'job even coming in fourth,
Final County Cricket Standings
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A
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D Dec
L
D
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Glamorgan (9) Surrey (6)
20
13
6
1
3
172
20
13
13
4
0
100
Middlesex (1)
100
Yorkshire (8)
3
150
and
Lancashire (3)
14 152
Derbyshire (5)
148
5
132
128
120
101
02
I have told you of the possibility of Great Britain withdrawing from this section in the near future. Well, there is now a proposal from America that there shall be English-speaking Games.
atitude Mel Patton, the hospitality, sporting 11 contes from fastest man on earth and he voiced organisation of the British has left it quite casually before a group of flie Amerlean open-mouthed. How often has one scen a defen-¦ American official the other day, der doing this and, at the same time,
They thought so much of it that it appealing to the Referee? If some of these players were to rent Law is down on the agenda of the next Ameriçon 12 they would notice that the words annual meeting of the
Athletic Union Mr Dan Ferris, "at the moment the hall is played"
Secretary, will sponsor it. are printed in distinctive type.
"RICHT!"
over
The player who gains or seeks to galo unfair advantage ponents by such artifees as sud- denly shouting "Right?"" (or thing equally deceitful) as an op- ponent is about to play the ball is Kullty of ungentlemanly conduct.
ROITE-
Patton says: "Let the rest of the foreigners haggle over the decisions, What we want is a grand sporting contest between the United States, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, South Africa, Australia, New Zen- land, the West Indies etc. It could be a very great success."
A report from Budapest states that liungarinn offcials say their boxers) won decisions only in an atmosphere of London hostility, That Jo no much balderdash.
When their railway worker, Papp,| beat our sailor, Johnny Wright, in the fat that we badly wanted to win, no one could have been given more unstinted applause,
How could verdicts be blased T when They were given by three neutral judges. After all, the Hun- garines did get two awards out of
Mr Ferris told me before his de- ¦ eight. I sec nothing for them to parture for the Continent that the grumble at.
he good serve deserves another
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Warwickshire (151 Gloucester (2) Hampshire (16) Worcester (7) Leicester (14) Somerset (13) Essex (11) Notts (12) Kent (4) Sussex (10)
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26
20
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72
Northants (17)
20
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SOCCER SPOTS
By JOHN MACADAM
Our initial peregrination of the new Soccer senson took these faltering steps around Birmingham, West Bromwich, and Wolverhampton, and if anybody wants to see how down-to-earth Soccer people get on with the job, why, they could do worse thun call on any of the three Midlands centres,
Of Harry Storer and his associates at Birmingham we spoke fulsomely last season, After a shaky First Divi- sion start, their team settled down to the gracious foot- ball that will surely make them one of the most attractive aides in the major competition.
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Whatever happens with all Brom boardroom dominated by a book-work that beleaguers a modern. bronze bust of the grent Billy manager, he seems to Bassett, newly appointed secretary to fear in the playing sense. Ephraim Smith, who worked in close Wolves have the samc harness with Fred Everiss for mare Buckley-llciated dash, and in Billy years, talked of the club's Wright one of the most thoughtful continuity of the pulley they worked players in the game today: one who out together in the light of the great is dominating the Wolves tactics as Bassett tradition.
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West Bromwier have slx X's and cly as Cuills himself did on the they will have more as and when the need for tiem arises.
They have colts and juveniles and juniors and all the rest of the grades up to the senior pros.
A huge, beflagged map on the wall shows the areas they are comblag
loose a prospect.
Regular training
Historical note: Observing that the caged Throstle had disappeared from the West Brom stand, We found from director Norman Bassett that they have eliminated the sing- ing folisman อ humanitarian
systematically go that they shan't grounds. Instead, they have been adopted as a mascot by ค small places emphasis | black cat. on the bail rather than on Inpping and all the outworn houha that is stifling the classic game we gave to the world,
EAT TOGETHER
Players spend their time together, kuch together Jo the hostelry adjoining the ground; are mouldeal into a leam all the season roul rather than for a few days before Cup tics.
There was ar odd angle on the change-over from erteket to Soccer
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the boardroom AS Horace Thursfeld, director, prepared lo cross the road to see his West Bromwich Dartmouth Cricket Club revolve their cup for having won the Birmingham and District League te} their 117th year.
Dartmouth are 11 times cham- pions on have taken the title six. times and been runners-up twice in the past eight years.
With him was no other than Alt Gover, ex-England and Surrey, who has taken 80 wickets to date for the club, and "I wish I'd known about this
kind of cricket sooner," says Alf, who travels to the Mid- lands between spells in the cricket: school he conducts in the south with Andy Sandham.
At Wolverhampton Stanley Cullis, fully launched at last on his career us a manager, was as nervous as n Ally on Oaks Day.
DOING IT WELL
It will be a testing few months for one of the greatest centre halves of all time, for he is going to find out that running a team is not all a matter of getting out there with Uie boys on training days-although he is doing plenty of that, and, se- cording to shrewd local judges, do- ing it effectively and tactfully.
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