off-the-ball

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English

Adjective

off-the-ball (not comparable)

  1. (sports, of an incident or foul) Occurring away from active play.
    • 2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2 - 2 Arsenal”, in BBC:
      An off the ball incident led to N'Zogbia confronting Wilshere before leaning his head into the Englishman and giving referee Lee Probert no choice but to show the red card.