[Football] Handball Rule

[Super Steve Earle]

So how to fix it? My Football Weekly colleague Philippe Auclair tweeted after the Inter penalty: “A suggestion to sort out the mess that is the current handball law. All handballs in the box sanctioned? Fine. If deliberate, penalty. If not, indirect free-kick, which is also great fun for spectators. Keep punishment commensurate with the offence. Right now, it isn’t.”

I have to say this would be a quite superb interpretation of the handball rules after the farces involving our English clubs in Europe last night.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Mings reached down with his hand and touched the ball. Deliberate handball.
Mings did not think the ball was in play. So not a deliberate handball.

Both are correct. Like most people, Phillippe should have thought before he tweeted.

 

[Blues Guitarist]

Mings reached down with his hand and touched the ball. Deliberate handball.
Mings did not think the ball was in play. So not a deliberate handball.

Both are correct. Like most people, Phillippe should have thought before he tweeted.

What the player is thinking is not relevant.

 

[JBizzle]

I think the simplest solution for the Mings one it to go back to the old way of taking goal kicks, i.e. from the corner of the 6-yard box. I think it's totally understandable that Mings may have thought that Martinez was just kicking the ball over to him to take the GK.

Either way, that is one of the many handball "offences" that, to me at least, categorically do not merit giving the opposing team a 75% chance of a goal from a penalty. I'm probably old school in as much as I think that a penalty should be given for offences that deny a genuine opportunity for a goal or a genuine foul.

So many games are decided off the back of minor infringements.

 

[BluesRockDJ]

On a similar note, what pisses me off is how many foul throws players get away with.

 

[Daddies_Sauce]

On a similar note, what pisses me off is how many foul throws players get away with.

Quite, a player picks up the ball and throws (usually under arm) to a team mate who is walking or jogging to the by-line to take the actual a throw in, the ball crosses the line and enters the field of play before the actual throw in is taken. Technically this is a foul throw and should be penalised as such.

 

[Cheggers]

Mings is a sentient being. The referee can't legislate for him being a bit thick. It's a penalty. If Mings does it again, Emery should give him some crayons to chew on.