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| Re: M OLIVER - Germany v Denmark | |
| By: Ernie1777 Date: June 29, 2024, 6:16 pm | |
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| Good performance from the team for the 3 games. It seems the | |
| future games have other names penciled in but they should be | |
| happy with how it went and rosetti was there in the tunnel. | |
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| Re: M OLIVER - Germany v Denmark | |
| By: Leggy Date: June 30, 2024, 5:29 am | |
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| [quote author=Adam link=topic=6101.msg80774#msg80774 | |
| date=1719693328] | |
| That isn't handball, however the law says its handball. | |
| [/quote] | |
| This is what "the game" wanted. They were unhappy with the law | |
| as it was written and interpreted and wanted a "black and white" | |
| definition of handball. That is what we now have. It might be | |
| a nonsense (my opinion only)but it is an excellent example of | |
| "be careful what you wish for". | |
| Michael Oliver could easily have decided to use a grain of | |
| common sense and not awarded the penalty, because the contact | |
| was so minimal that it needed a snickometer to confirm it and | |
| there was no intent. But it would have been the last | |
| international appointment of his career. | |
| If "the game" does not like the current handball Law, it needs | |
| to influence IFAB to change it. Perhaps giving referees the | |
| discretion to use their common sense and judgement to decide who | |
| is trying to gain an unfair advantage and who is not ......? | |
| #Post#: 80796-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: M OLIVER - Germany v Denmark | |
| By: Affy_Moose Date: June 30, 2024, 7:06 am | |
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| [quote author=Leggy link=topic=6101.msg80792#msg80792 | |
| date=1719743365] | |
| [quote author=Adam link=topic=6101.msg80774#msg80774 | |
| date=1719693328] | |
| That isn't handball, however the law says its handball. | |
| [/quote] | |
| This is what "the game" wanted. They were unhappy with the law | |
| as it was written and interpreted and wanted a "black and white" | |
| definition of handball. That is what we now have. It might be | |
| a nonsense (my opinion only)but it is an excellent example of | |
| "be careful what you wish for". | |
| Michael Oliver could easily have decided to use a grain of | |
| common sense and not awarded the penalty, because the contact | |
| was so minimal that it needed a snickometer to confirm it and | |
| there was no intent. But it would have been the last | |
| international appointment of his career. | |
| If "the game" does not like the current handball Law, it needs | |
| to influence IFAB to change it. Perhaps giving referees the | |
| discretion to use their common sense and judgement to decide who | |
| is trying to gain an unfair advantage and who is not ......? | |
| [/quote] | |
| Of course you are completely correct. Unfortunately, football | |
| �wants� both �common sense� and �consistency� which are | |
| diametrically opposed. | |
| In the last few years we moved towards almost all handballs | |
| being penalties (see Spurs v Liverpool CL final season) and then | |
| football decided it didn�t like it. It�s moved back a bit, but | |
| still a problem. | |
| As a fan and an official, I would prefer that the guidelines on | |
| �normal position� or as a consequence or justifiable by normal | |
| body movement� was tidied up. IFAB and UEFA/FIFA have a huge | |
| amount of responsibility here. It�s too ambiguous if that�s all | |
| that is provided to the football public. | |
| I�m fed up of Law 12 being written in fairly simple language, | |
| only for all the guidance, coaching, and advice to be provided | |
| �off-table�. Terms like �proximity� or �barrier� for handball, | |
| and �point of contact� are entirely missing from the LotG but | |
| every coaching class we have with clips direct from UEFA include | |
| such coaching. | |
| We�re told to always speak to coaches using Law-specific | |
| language such as �reckless� or �endangering safety� etc and then | |
| �studs in the boot� is almost always a mandatory yellow, yet | |
| none of that guidance is publicly available (at least I�ve never | |
| been able to find it). | |
| Webb (and likely Collum) seem to want to have a more open | |
| relationship with media/football and a less �closed-group� | |
| attitude, so I can only hope these aspects will improve. | |
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