I think you were robbed mate, surely if you're over the dead ball line, wherever it is, you are considered to be off the field of play. Unless, of course, he wasn't over the line when you hit it.you can ( could ) be offside inside the goal, I've mentioned it here before but it rankles because it cost me a hat-trick. One of our players contested a corner with their keeper who punched the ball to the edge of the box where young Sandboy volleyed it straight back into the top corner completing his first ever hat-trick. I was on my lap of honour oblivious that the ref had disallowed it for offside because our player had ended up in the back of the net following the original clash