Cristian Romero could not do anything about the ball bouncing up and colliding with his hand; can nothing be accidental anymore?
Do you know what version of the handball rule is currently being applied? No you bloody don’t – you can’t – because it changes all the time.
‘The laws can be difficult to interpret, self-defeatingly unclear and inconsistently applied. But also inadvertently blocking a goal-bound shot – inadvertently or otherwise – probably shouldn’t be allowed.’ There’s nothing ‘natural’ about playing football in the first place, it is fundamentally contrived, so there is no ‘natural’ arm position in an unnatural sport, no place it really should be and no place it shouldn’t. That’s not an opinion, that’s just counting.
The rules of Association Football were not drawn up to be adjudicated in this manner. While inconsistencies will always happen in the application of any system, the officials are just making it harder for themselves under the pressure caused by the VAR. You might argue that it doesn’t matter if it is accidental. Okay, it’s a position you can take, but not one that the majority think is fair. Getting penalised so heavily for something you have no control over goes against all laws of natural justice. But of course software and a TV screen doesn’t have any sense of natural justice, and that’s part of the problem.
One of the unintended consequences of this fear of accidental handball being penalised is that defenders are now obliged to play like Irish dancers with both hands behind their back with their legs kicking out when in the area, which not only looks very silly but is surely dangerous in that it means you are not properly balanced.
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