Hand and Ball

[Q165]

This handball situation has gone on for too long in football.

The answer is simple,ANY contact between hand and ball should be given as a foul without exception.

In hockey ANY contact between ball and foot is treated as a foul

It’s a problem easily solved.

This handball situation has gone on for too long in football.

The answer is simple,ANY contact between hand and ball should be given as a foul without exception.

In hockey ANY contact between ball and foot is treated as a foul.


It’s a problem easily solved.

I appreciate what you are saying Mick but am not at all sure. In such circumstances we would have had a cast iron indisputable penalty when the ball struck James Chester’s hand. Nothstanding that it was the Villa surely being punished like that would have been wrong. Somewhere, somehow the matter of calculated intent should be included. Following such a path would inevitably lead to officials making what to others seem wrong decisions. But wrong decisions can and do happen throughout the game and this is something you have got to live with if you both play and watch.