This is how I feel, they don't give a crap about us at the higher levels, why should we give a crap about them? Let's make our own Laws to handle our own games, ELIMINATE FIFA! VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
ESPN's article has some quotes "Pierluigi Collina, the chairman of the FIFA referees committee, admitted that the lawmakers had "gone too far" in disallowing goals when the ball had been accidentally handled by a teammate before a goal was scored. "This was a change that responds to the spirit of football," Collina said." https://www.espn.com/soccer/english...akers-ifab-in-crucial-changes-to-handball-law
The article also states that the changes were proposed in December and were not the result of recent events. (Hey, didn't some smart guy suggest that earlier in the thread! )
One of my favorite lines from the IFAB release: "As the interpretation of handball incidents has not always been consistent due to incorrect applications of the Law,....." So to be clear, according to IFAB, it's our fault.
100%. Any goal scored after touching the hand no matter how accidental was against the spirit of football. At least it was in 2018.
I have come to the conclusion there is simply no way to write a handball law into words without unintended consequences. I think IFAB should release a digital catalogue of ~50 potential handballs and simply tell us punishable or not. Maybe Futuro does this, but I don’t think the masses really utilize this.
IFAB may as well say: “Balls hit arms and hands all the time. We get it. It’s been happening since the first day soccer was played. As long as you don’t Maradona it in the back of the net we don’t care. Everyone get over it.”
As much as I hate the constant tinkering, I think this was an improvement over the past two years' changes. We now have (1) deliberate, the old standby, (2) unnaturally bigger, which had really become part of the definition of deliberate before they started with all the monkey business, and (3) a player can't accidentally handle and then be the person to score. I'm pretty OK with this as a reasonable place to be--clearly better than the last couple.
Chris Foy gives a review of 4 recent decisions: https://www.premierleague.com/news/2063115 Still photos only in article.
Sounds like he had three out of four correct. Reaction time is specifically to be disregarded as the laws are currently written .
Not entirely. Reaction time can be a clue as to whether handling was deliberate; it just doesn't apply to biggering/above shoulder. But I really wish his explanations tied more to the Law 12 language than just his opinions and personal criteria.
I was referring strictly to the language we have at our disposal. Which in the case of the one he’s saying isn’t handling. Doesn’t work. Reaction time or proximity are specifically to be disregarded if the arm is positioned as it was on that play.
Did you invent Biggering? I really like it and will be using it whenever I get back on the field. It will drive the English team trainers mad.
Yeah I love it too. https://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/drseussthelorax/biggering.htm https://www.wordsense.eu/biggering/