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Off side trap in the 70s 20 Mar 2025 20:44 #1

GingerBalls Offline Ball Boy Posts: 78 Likes received: 23	Was looking through a few old YouTube clips from the 70s and came across Arsenal v Man United. At around 1.20 can anyone explain what exactly is occurring??!!
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Off side trap in the 70s 20 Mar 2025 22:04 #2

mojo Offline Youth Team Player Posts: 271 Likes received: 90	didn't know John Cleese was a copper? about 1:50 in
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Off side trap in the 70s 20 Mar 2025 22:28 #3

Markovitch Offline Reserve Squad Posts: 584 Likes received: 86	Good to see the Scotland international centre back pairing getting torn apart so nothing new there
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Off side trap in the 70s 20 Mar 2025 22:58 #4

SeepBladder Offline Ball Boy Posts: 73 Likes received: 39	It's Motson commentating so the linesman probably wasn't flagging for offside.
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Off side trap in the 70s 20 Mar 2025 23:01 #5

cyberslob Offline Ball Boy Posts: 193 Likes received: 41	Arsenal were attacking. The offside rule was simple in those days but it made dour matches. There was no interfering with play malarkey. If any of the attacking team were past the last defender it was offside hence you see manure charging out hoping to catch out 1 player. When you add the passing back to the keeper he rolls it out to the other side and back again it was shit.
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Off side trap in the 70s Yesterday 15:28 #6

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cyberslob wrote:

Arsenal were attacking. The offside rule was simple in those days but it made dour matches. There was no interfering with play malarkey. If any of the attacking team were past the last defender it was offside hence you see manure charging out hoping to catch out 1 player. When you add the passing back to the keeper he rolls it out to the other side and back again it was shit.

That's all Liverpool did when they had their dominance, take the lead and do this forever. I couldn't understand it at the time why they were so popular with this boring tactic but I guess many people wanted to be associated with a winning club no matter how crap they were to watch.

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