It is astonishing that Scotland has its own version of the handball rule. I’m looking forward to seeing Willie Collum’s face when he’s explaining that.
On pod i was at pains to frame it correctly. it is not their own version. It is additional clarification that was once in IFAB and taken out. An important distinction. Scotland, for whatever reason, felt it needed that specific scenario made explicit rather than implicit.
Aye, but he’s going to have to explain why Scotland left it in when IFAB decided to take it out.
At ground level, a player can “hide” his arm in front of his body when facing a shot. The issue here is that the Motherwell defender’s arm has nowhere to go because it’s trapped by Trusty’s shoulder.
My guess is that the SFA wanted to take the ambiguity out of the decision and simplify the application of the law. If I had been part of the team making that decision, I’d have been asking why IFAB had decided to drop it, because sure as eggs they didn’t do it without a very good reason. If the SFA had then decided to go ahead, even with the jeopardy of cases like this one, they should have made that decision very clear to the clubs and, ideally, the media and the fans.
As a former goalkeeper, I wish the YW officiated in games I played in 😉
Great work as ever by you and the YW.
It is astonishing that Scotland has its own version of the handball rule. I’m looking forward to seeing Willie Collum’s face when he’s explaining that.
Stephen
On pod i was at pains to frame it correctly. it is not their own version. It is additional clarification that was once in IFAB and taken out. An important distinction. Scotland, for whatever reason, felt it needed that specific scenario made explicit rather than implicit.
Aye, but he’s going to have to explain why Scotland left it in when IFAB decided to take it out.
At ground level, a player can “hide” his arm in front of his body when facing a shot. The issue here is that the Motherwell defender’s arm has nowhere to go because it’s trapped by Trusty’s shoulder.
My guess is that the SFA wanted to take the ambiguity out of the decision and simplify the application of the law. If I had been part of the team making that decision, I’d have been asking why IFAB had decided to drop it, because sure as eggs they didn’t do it without a very good reason. If the SFA had then decided to go ahead, even with the jeopardy of cases like this one, they should have made that decision very clear to the clubs and, ideally, the media and the fans.