[Chimer]

Life would be a whole lot better and easier for the officials if they abolished offside - a stupid pointless rule which puts large chunks of the pitch out of bounds, so compresses the players into a smaller area than necessary, takes up far too much of the officials' attention, and can apparently be interpreted in as many ways as there are officials and pundits. Hockey did away with it years ago and it improved the game enormously.

Rant over .....