Mumsnet Football Challenge...please don't let me down Mumsnetters!!

[Kayteee]

I have just told my friend that you can get pretty much any question answered here. He promptly said, smugly, "I bet they won't be able to explain the off-side rule in football". Now I know nothing about football but I would LOVE to show him that there are mums out there who do know :)

[fanoftheinvisibleman]

At its most simplistic, the player must not be beyond the last defender at the point the ball is kicked into play. We won't go into the second phase rule

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Um come onto the football thread. We know fuck loads more than that.

[fanoftheinvisibleman]

Oh...and match attending Manchester blue since 1994! Even my MN name is from one of our songs...

[Kayteee]

KenDoddsDadsDog, where is the football thread?

[TheSkiingGardener]

Yes we can. Probably better than he can. Lots of us have played football you know.

In return, please can he describe what it feels like to have a contraction?

[GlaikitCheiftanOThePuddinRace]

When the ball is played by the attacking team there must be 2 defending team members between the goal and the last attacking player.

[GlaikitCheiftanOThePuddinRace]

Oh skiing I can't even describe that! Stoopid failed induction. Bet it was a man who invented that!

Does yr friend have anymore questions? His first was a bit easy!

[Kayteee]

He says it might be a little like his recent heart attack lol