I saw an interesting scenario on fb today, wondering what the brains trust thinks of it (if you also saw the clip, I forget what the actual colours were)
Blue has the ball and is attacking, say, 25 yards out from goal Blue A is moving slowly with the ball towards goal.
Blue B is, say, 15 yards away and in an offside position.
A Red defender comes in, dispossesses the attacker, and the ball goes to Blue B. The AR flags for offside, ref waves him down, and allows the goal that comes from the play.
Now, I don't want to get into the debate that comes up about whether a challenge can be a deliberate play or not - so for the sake of argument, let's say that it's clear the defender wasn't really looking for control nor would you blame them for not being able to control it - they're just running in to knock the ball away (remember that a deliberate play in L11 really means a reasonable likelihood of control).
So, thoughts?
Technically it would fulfil the criteria of an offside offence- I wonder if anybody would disagree from a spirit of the law perspective?