Players who are onside take an active part in playing the game.

I've been told Richie was onside for his goal but you're not going to get those decisions here.

Far too many hospitals named after the Royals for them not to be onside.

Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed.

Players now need to know clearly when they are onside or offside in order to follow the ball.

At least Sky had the decency to show a replay and prove it was onside.

"We were onside kicking with 32 seconds to go.

The kicker himself and any teammates behind the ball at the time of the kick are onside.

In 1990 the law was amended to consider an attacker to be onside if level with the second to last opponent.

But if he is in line with the defender, he will be onside, and play will continue.

One common example of where Zeus' recommendation differs with real life coaches is onside kicks.

(Slang) The location of a card that is onside.

Sessegnon is onside and all on his own on the left flank.

A player is onside whenever he or she is behind the relevant offside line for the particular phase of play.

He said if the Government is to make a real difference to the development of mid sized businesses then the Treasury had to be onside.

Thus on kick-offs all players of the kicking team are onside, but on other kicks usually only the kicker is.

Since three defenders were required for a ball played to be onside, the English system was virtually a ready-made offside trap.

Rocky's goal was onside!

On a punt or missed field goal, usually only the kicker is onside, as no one is behind the kicker.

A loose ball may be kicked forward (dribbled) provided it is then recovered by a player who is onside at the time of said kick.

Better to be onside with the coming changes in the NHL than look like a dinosaur operation and lose millions in the process.

The king of spades is onside, but declarer (South) cannot finesse against it because dummy has no trumps remaining.

When a scrum took place, all players standing outside it, apart from the halfback, had to stand a minimum of 5 metres back to be onside.

Up until this point, for an attacking player to be onside, there had to be at least three opposing players closer to their goal-line than the attacker.

And Wright, the Golden Boot winner after hammering 29 goals last season, said: 'I knew I was onside.