I think the tactic of 10 players tuning their back on the ball inside their own box might have a few drawbacks tbh. #notafootballgenius
Depends, if there's a free kick set up your wall with everyone having their arms in their air and their head turned #nodisadvantage #ninefootwall
Ex-Premier League ref Dermot Gallagher "Part of the directives is, are you making your body bigger? Are you gaining an advantage by throwing your arms out. And I think on that occasion he has." As you say it open to interpretation by the referee [as are a lot of the rules]. Just to add that the ref didn't actually see it, it was the linesman. My personal view is sort of in line with the 'making your body bigger' argument - you don't have to jump up with your elbows out but it's just one more of the 50/50 handball decisions we see nearly every week.
Indeed it isn't directly a factor but it is indirectly because he can't see what is happening. If he doesn't **** it then he stays facing the ball and his arms aren't sticking out for it to be handball. If he stands bravely, he may even get a head to it. don't give me the bollox about three yards away, there is a good five yards there and he has time to react. He reacted enough to turn away FFS
I already said that FFS TBF I think @Tobes realises by now he was talking ****e and it was indeed a penalty
If you care to look I never said it wasn't.... I said it was extremely soft and a generous award. If that's not given you don't moan about the injustice (well you do, but you're the exception )
That's the issue: If the making of body bigger was deliberate. Yes, penalty. If the making of body bigger was a result of him being a chicken and spinning with no intent to make body bigger by outstretching arm... Not a penalty. The ref calling it would depend on whether they though it was a deliberate embiggening or not.
If you watched it several times (from the behind the goal camera ) and deem it struck his arm 2 meters inside the box , it's obvious to me your opinions can't be trusted on most things
An analogy that I used earlier. I don't think I could resist the temptation, however, to just slam the ball as hard as possible in the bollocks of their best player in the wall.
Why would you watch it from behind the goal if the offence was on the edge of the box? Can you post this behind the goal angle tht shows his arm outside the box when the ball strikes it? I'll stand corrected when you do.
But if you were to look at that from behind the goal, with perhaps the goalposts and/or the keeper in your line of sight, and maybe if you were wearing dark glasses and were hitting your labrador with your white stick, then maybe, just maybe it could appear outside the box?
Add the elbows out to the fact he jumped up to meet the ball, then both things sway towards penalty i.e. moving to meet the ball rather than the other way round.
