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Jack Jull
But they can't come up with a consistent decision which everyone agrees with, if every hand ball is given you can't agrue with it, once you give someone the chance to make a tough decision they duck it.
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Refereeing/ blaming referee
- Thread starter Kandi1977
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But they can't come up with a consistent decision which everyone agrees with, if every hand ball is given you can't agrue with it, once you give someone the chance to make a tough decision they duck it.
parklane1
Tony Galvin
Do not hold your breath for that to happen.
mudshark
Chris Armstrong
All this fuсking hand-wringing over whether something is or isn't handball is doing my head in. Just keep it simple, stupid:
hand to ball = handball
ball to hand = not handball
It's a manufactured issue. I'm sick of these idiots constantly tinkering with the rules to try and create points of controversy for VAR to adjudicate.
hand to ball = handball
ball to hand = not handball
It's a manufactured issue. I'm sick of these idiots constantly tinkering with the rules to try and create points of controversy for VAR to adjudicate.
Baleforce
Les Bennett
It was like that for a long long time, the tinkering started a few years ago, when everyone went batbrick crazy over an arsenal defender scoring a perfectly good* goal with his arm.
* as the law was written at that time
mudshark
Chris Armstrong
The other, broader issue is that they're always on about respect for match officials, but the constant changes to the laws only serve to undermine them even further. It's like bad parenting: you said one thing yesterday, and now it's something different. Which is it? I hate you.
Muttley
Wilson Palacios
I think there was always a "did it impact play?" question as well as what you say though.
Muttley
Wilson Palacios
Respect is earned in life. When the referees start doing their very basic job of administering the laws of the game, then I'll have their back again. Because they think it is OK not to use them, they can face every piece of criticism coming their way.
It's also been stated before that becoming an elite referee can make you a millionaire and give you a nice life. However, if you become a celebrity then you can become a multi-millionaire and get generational wealth. Guys like Mike Dean never wanted to be just a good referee (not that he was). They courted controversy so they could become a TV star. It was all about cleansing their ego and bank balance.
Baleforce
Les Bennett
I think fans do have a responsibility to keep up to date with the change in laws though.
They are published immediately and available to everyone.
Muttley
Wilson Palacios
I wish IFAB let the fans vote on them. They wouldn't be so crap then.
Baleforce
Les Bennett
mudshark
Chris Armstrong
I got a clip round the ear for that last week; this week, he gets given a sodding ice cream. I'm going to run away!!!
Muttley
Wilson Palacios
I was of course joking.
Fans should be considered. Take the offside rule. Whether it was supporters in the ground or fans in their armchairs, you could always use the naked eye and get most right. Then level is eliminated, even though still in the apparently laws, and now nobody can tell because there is no such thing. We're all the mercy of whether it is 1mm one way, or 1mm the other.
Then you have the handball farce at the weekend. I know what every fan wants from that scenario from the rules. It's not the outcome we got from those wise men from IFAB.