New Handball Rule

[I'm With Stupid]

Leagues can choose to use the new handball law when the season resumes, football's lawmaking body says.

The International Football Association Board (Ifab) wrote to the four British football associations on Tuesday to confirm the approved changes to the laws of the game for 2020-21.

The "T-shirt line" or armpit - essentially where the sleeve on a T-shirt ends - will become a key marker on the player's body for match officials, with anything below that being handball.

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So welcome to everyone's new kit for next year then:

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Unless the shirt colour is blue, in that case it is the whole of the area covered by the shirt can be classed as handball.

 

[117 M34]

That's a stupid rule because the t shirt line will vary depending on if th eplayer has their arm down, up or to the side.
Will also vary depending on how muscular the player is.
What about players who wear long sleeves?

 

[Cellarite]

Kit manufacturers will simply alter their design to ensure that this rule is confused. They simply don’t think these things through.

 

[dickie davies]

Why don't they just revert back to the original rule

It depends on who the referee wants to win, or has in his accumulator for first goal

 

[Dubai Blue]

That's a stupid rule because the t shirt line will vary depending on if th eplayer has their arm down, up or to the side.
Will also vary depending on how muscular the player is.
What about players who wear long sleeves?

They mean the top of the sleeve (where it joins the shoulder), not the bottom!

And I'm sure they're expecting referees to use a figurative line rather than a literal one. They must do because some shirts don't even have this seam (including our current home and away, although the 3rd does).

So, the judgement line will be around the players armpit/shoulder, even if he's wearing a shirt 2 sizes too big for him where the actual shoulder seam is halfway down his bicep.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

If they dispensed with the handball rule entirely we'd still be penalised! I cannot see a scrap of sense in changing a law midway through a season, if we get to see the other half! Teams have been penalised for a handball offence and now, depending on where the ball touches, they won't, or will they? Another FICKFUFA cock-up that our FArce and PL will now doubt adopt and tell us that we are at the cutting edge of law enforcement!

 

[mat]

Kit manufacturers will simply alter their design to ensure that this rule is confused. They simply don’t think these things through.

Just like certain boot manufacturers producing grass coloured boots to beat the stupid VAR offside rule.

 

[old blue]

Unless the shirt colour is blue, in that case it is the whole of the area covered by the shirt can be classed as handball.

Known as the Clattenberg ruling.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Just change it to the point of the elbow, I don't really care about top of the arm handballs, they're rarely deliberate enough to worry about.