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The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3268/
xkcd #3268: Offside
Title text:
The arbiter gave my knight a red card for capturing with cleats up :(
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3268/
21 Comments
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 53d
Spotting offside is very easy once you know how: if an exciting play happens, that's offside.
davidgro@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 53d
(patiently waiting for explainxkcd)
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 53d
It’s a football (or soccer, if you’re so inclined) reference.
Overly simplified, the attacking side needs to have one other player besides the opposing goalkeeper in front of the ball to not risk being called off-side.
There is a lot more nuance to the rule, and even I don’t fully understand it 100%, but for the sake of this joke it should suffice.
doughless@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 53d
The official rule is that you are offside if you are closer to the goal line than both the ball and second-to-last defender when the ball is passed by your own team. It is only a violation if you then make a play toward the ball after being offside. If the other team makes an intentional play on the ball before you do, then you are no longer offside.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 53d
Now try and explain it to the wife using salt and pepper shakers
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 53d
Side is off.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 53d
"Soccer is like chess, just without dice."
(no, this was never a serious quote; "Fußball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel" started as a satirical quote by a German comedian)
Nyvios@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 53d
You should just call the boss of chess and have your red card withdrawn
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 52d
I don’t think Gary Chess, the inventor of chess, is that active in the scene any more. Not for a decade, I don’t think
VM_Abrantes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 53d
New strat just dropped
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 53d
holy hell
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 53d
This is a football (soccer) thing, right? Because I think that's the only sport with the cards like that.
Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 10 pts · 53d
this is clearly chess
probable_possum@leminal.space · 3 pts · 53d
Offside determination requirements
No ball, no offside. Chess with a ball could be interesting, though. :)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
what are you talking about it's always a ball when you're playing chess
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d
That's the soccer definition not the chess offsides rule
probable_possum@leminal.space · 2 pts · 53d
Oh yes. My bad.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 53d
Actually, since it's at the same line as the king or farther, it's not offside
cainisdelta1@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 53d
Unless the king is equivalent to the goalie in this situation in which case it would be offside
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 53d
That's what I was referencing
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social · 2 pts · 53d
In football you are offside if you don't have at least two players ahead of you (usually, but not necessarily the keeper and one defender)