One small comment on your part II description of offsides. There must be two defenders goalside of the player when the ball is played to him. As you described, most often the offside rule is called when an attacker is beyond the last outfield defensive player and only the keeper is goalside of him. Rarely, if the keeper is off his line, an attacker can be offsides if only one outfield defender or none are goalside. This happened in the last World Cup, where the keeper came out to punch the ball away and the attacking player who eventually put the ball away had only one defender between him and the goal. It took the announcers a while to realize that the official called the play off because the keeper was out by the penalty spot and the attacker was behind him when the ball was played to him. However, as you described in the simplest description most often the keeper is the last defensive player between the goal and the offside player.
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Way to go. Don't watch the spanish league. German and British for nice football. Dutch for young talents and funny commentary. Maybe because I'm used to the Bundesliga(Germany) I just don't like the spanish league. No doubt that the teams are good. But in the Bundesliga every team can win against every team. That is how it's supposed to be. In spain barca and real dominate everything
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