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mollykins | 14:38 Wed 16th Jun 2010 | Sport
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what is the point in it?
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To stop the attacking team having too much of an advantage.
14:39 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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So the players don't all stand around the goal mouth waiting for someone to hoof a ball in.
14:39 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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To stop players hovering around the goal mouth waiting for long balls to be passed in to them. (ala Gary Liniker)
14:40 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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It's to stop strikers being able to just stand up beside the opposing goalkeeper and just wait for the ball to come to them.
14:40 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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The defence should be better then.
14:40 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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How could the defence be better if someone is stood next to the goalkeeper? It would make for a boring game
14:42 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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The only defence would be the goalkeeper if there was no offside rule.
14:42 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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Same reason you can't just lob a netball from one circle into the other...
14:42 Wed 16th Jun 2010
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It would be like watching 7 year old playing football with a tennis ball....
14:43 Wed 16th Jun 2010

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