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Watching the England ladies play Italy, and the following scenario took place.
Kick deep into blue territory is fielded by blue winger, who kicks back upfield, with most of blue team still in front of her.
Kick is caught by white player around halfway, who is immediately impeded by blue player who has been retreating so lazily she barely made it back past the white player, and who is pinged for a very obvious offside. So far, so expected.
Having initially appeared to make a mark where the offside offence took place around halfway, the referee then marches everyone back deep into blue territory to give white the penalty where the blue player had taken the kick.
Is this right? I know that you get the option if it is the other way around - e.g. if white had made a late tackle on blue as she kicked it, blue would have option of penalty where kick took place or where ball landed. But I didn't think it applied to white's benefit for an offside.
I'm presuming this is a lacuna in my knowledge of the laws, but wanted to check.
Kick deep into blue territory is fielded by blue winger, who kicks back upfield, with most of blue team still in front of her.
Kick is caught by white player around halfway, who is immediately impeded by blue player who has been retreating so lazily she barely made it back past the white player, and who is pinged for a very obvious offside. So far, so expected.
Having initially appeared to make a mark where the offside offence took place around halfway, the referee then marches everyone back deep into blue territory to give white the penalty where the blue player had taken the kick.
Is this right? I know that you get the option if it is the other way around - e.g. if white had made a late tackle on blue as she kicked it, blue would have option of penalty where kick took place or where ball landed. But I didn't think it applied to white's benefit for an offside.
I'm presuming this is a lacuna in my knowledge of the laws, but wanted to check.