After all, two judges and the referee are always near the action, a fall is lost when a wrestler touches the ground first, and there is no offside rule.

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His fans, many of them the young women who idolised pop music stars, were happy to pay money to watch him, whether or not they understood the offside rule.

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"It's probably one of those moments that will go down with the changes to the offside rule and the back-pass rule, which most of us at the time were very skeptical about, but which we've now taken to our hearts because we appreciate it, " he said.

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Roque Santa Cruz shot wide and later passed for Benni McCarthy to slot home only for a questionable offside flag to rule the goal out.

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Barca also made public its annoyance at the failure of the officials to rule out Zlatan Ibrahimovic's strike, which came with the forward in an offside position.

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