Today’s Football 2019/20 Season

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TheBigIguana said:
That rule doesn't really work without having some kind of wording that the handball has to be accidental and then you open up the whole can that they attempted to close by having this rule be black and white to begin with.
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Yes I agree 'sccidental' should be explicitly in the law, it has to an extent depend on the referee on the pitch but it has to be a direct or indirect and immediate result of a trip or foul committed on the fouled player, so if you like it's only 'fouled' players who in the immediate virtual same action 'inadvertently' handle the ball while the subsequent action results in a goal, that could possibly 'bend' the rules by deliberately handling the ball and getting away with it.

I would think any such cases of bending this rule would barely arise once in a decade, as it so infrequent that there even being a chance of it given that only two cases of the type of injustice we're discussing have happened all season.

The benefits of adopting such a ruling and potentially avoiding any more instances causing such huge embarrassment for the game and it's laws, for me, far outweighs the minute risk of a fouled player in the action of falling managing to fool the referee and officials into thinking a deliberate handball was only accidental and the subsequent action resulting in a goal.
 
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Chris O'Connor said:
Yes I agree 'sccidental' should be explicitly in the law, it has to an extent depend on the referee on the pitch but it has to be a direct or indirect and immediate result of a trip or foul committed on the fouled player, so if you like it's only 'fouled' players who in the immediate virtual same action 'inadvertently' handle the ball while the subsequent action results in a goal, that could possibly 'bend' the rules by deliberately handling the ball and getting away with it.

I would think any such cases of bending this rule would barely arise once in a decade, as it so infrequent that there even being a chance of it given that only two cases of the type of injustice we're discussing have happened all season.

The benefits of adopting such a ruling and potentially avoiding any more instances causing such huge embarrassment for the game and it's laws, for me, far outweighs the minute risk of a fouled player in the action of falling managing to fool the referee and officials into thinking a deliberate handball was only accidental and the subsequent action resulting in a goal.
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Personally I think the right ruling in both instances was to give a free kick to the fouled player but still rule the goal out. The far more sensible solution imo is to give the VAR leeway like a rugby TMO to get the decision right meaning after ruling handball also telling the ref to give the foul and a card.
 
Alan Smith talking an inordinate amount of nonsense here. Barkley has become a 'consistent' player apparently. Just because he's scored in a couple of games recently.
 
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