Git, you're a lawyer

read this and tell me if he was offside or onside. Surely this makes it clear that a player has to deliberately step off the pitch to make a player onside. Therefore there must be intent. there clearly wasn't here. So it was offside yes?

"If a defending player steps behind his own goal line in order to place an opponent in an offside position, the referee shall allow play to continue and caution the defender for deliberately leaving the field of play without the referee’s permission when the ball is next out of play"

Posted By: Holden Caulfield, Jun 10, 12:06:50