On penalties and handballs - a better solution

For those like me old enough to remember, the rule used to be that handball needed to be intentional to be an offence. Hand to ball and all - ie, you made a deliberate motion to handle the ball.

So if the ball was blasted at you from only a yard or two awa

It required a bit of judgement and interpretation from the officials. They no doubt got it wrong sometimes. But it wasn't mad, and if applied sensible generally didn't send normal football fans into regular rages, or give penalties when clearly nothing of the sort should be given.

But there was one problem that meant it had to be changed. That was that if you were an defender in front of your own goal, you could just

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, May 11, 15:06:28