Chippy_boy
Well-Known Member
It seems pretty clear to me that under the rules, the player needs to have gained possession or got the ball under control, and Laporte did neither. The ball after it his arm (if inded it did, and I am still yet to see evidence for that) could have gone anywhere. It certainly wasn't in our possession at that point and neither was it under control.100% correct yet they link the IFAB guidelines from their site. The Premier league have not just summarized they have changed the wording, they have added "accidental" to the creating a goal scoring line, when it simply isn't there on the IFAB guidelines.
IFAB have specifically took the word accidental out and gone out of their way to say the player handling/creating has to have possession/control of the ball, and THEN create a goal scoring opportunity in the Laporte incident.
And then you have another argument entirely whether Jesus had a chance straight from the arm. Jesus had to touch the ball to the side and create the space/opportunity for himself.
What if Jesus beat 4 players and scored, did Laporte still create the opportunity or did Jesus create his own opportunity by beating 4 men?
Far far too many grey areas the way it is written now.