Originally posted by WeeWeeSlap
offsides is when a player from the attacking team is ahead of the line of the farthest defense minus the goalie at the time that the bell is kicked to him. If such happens then the player is in an offsides position. If the player has another defense ahead of the direction where he is to score apart from the goalie before the ball is kicked to him then the player is not in an offside position even if he is able to outrun the defense and get ahead of them after the ball has deprated the othe rplayer.
Close but its the last two players of the opposition in general, just happens that 99.9% of the time its the goalkeeper, so your statement would still work.
eh, still don't understand look at
http://www.localdial.com/users/mermaid/offside.htm, it has diagrams!