Havak
Pokemon master
What's everyone's take on handball rulings in football at the moment?
I think we can all agree that the accidental handball leading to goals is not working in its current form. I get the idea and what it was brought in to do and when you read the rule in theory it works, but it definitely doesn't work that well in practice. I'm sure this will be revised for next season and each call should be looked at by the referee or the VAR should just make a decision on what they deem to be too much of an advantage gained by the handball for example. Certain ones such as the Mahrez goal against Liverpool spring to mind where a player is on the floor and it brushes his arm, that surely didn't effect the play in any way etc.
However, I'm more looking into other forms of handball here and I'm not doing it just to defend Pogba last night as that one may have been given even after my suggestion is heard. My opinion on handball for a long time has been that it should only be handball if your body wouldn't have blocked the shot anyway.
If a player is using their hands/arms to block the ball, but it would have hit them in the face, stomach, or the meat and two veg, should it really count as handball? The ball was going to just hit them anyway, so why should anyone give a feck? I'm sure VAR (if the officials are actually able to make this kind of call) would be able to tell from a replay if the arm is higher than a players head or is too far out to their side etc. I don't think we should expect players to take 60mph shots to sensitive parts of the body as some could actually cause injury.
What say the caf?
I think we can all agree that the accidental handball leading to goals is not working in its current form. I get the idea and what it was brought in to do and when you read the rule in theory it works, but it definitely doesn't work that well in practice. I'm sure this will be revised for next season and each call should be looked at by the referee or the VAR should just make a decision on what they deem to be too much of an advantage gained by the handball for example. Certain ones such as the Mahrez goal against Liverpool spring to mind where a player is on the floor and it brushes his arm, that surely didn't effect the play in any way etc.
However, I'm more looking into other forms of handball here and I'm not doing it just to defend Pogba last night as that one may have been given even after my suggestion is heard. My opinion on handball for a long time has been that it should only be handball if your body wouldn't have blocked the shot anyway.
If a player is using their hands/arms to block the ball, but it would have hit them in the face, stomach, or the meat and two veg, should it really count as handball? The ball was going to just hit them anyway, so why should anyone give a feck? I'm sure VAR (if the officials are actually able to make this kind of call) would be able to tell from a replay if the arm is higher than a players head or is too far out to their side etc. I don't think we should expect players to take 60mph shots to sensitive parts of the body as some could actually cause injury.
What say the caf?