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| F4E Articles | Goodbye to the Arsenal Offside Shuffle
a light-hearted look at the ever changing offside rule
There was a time when the offside rule was the one - often the only - jewel of knowledge understood only by the male population of this country. Husbands and boyfriends - constantly challenged when it came to cooking the Sunday lunch, setting the washing machine on the correct cycle, writing a shopping list or adjusting the length of a new pair of jeans - could wallow in the satisfaction of knowing that their partners would stumble hopelessly when it came to describing the offside rule in Association Football.
Oh how we have laughed at the attempts, even after describing the rule to them, in detail, at the dinner table, using the condiment set and sauce bottles to show precisely how the rule is applied.
"So, the ketchup is the goal-keeper and the pepper pot is Tony Adams. But if Eric Cantona is the salt, who's the Daddies...? Oh, right, but what's a linesman and can he be offside?"
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