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TOPIC: Handball law..

Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:12 #1

TheLazyLewisGuy Offline First Team Player Posts: 1892 Likes received: 278	Chaged at the start of the year in the prem, I'm guessing we both play by the same rules.. In an effort to stop referees brandishing yellow cards for every handball, "preventing an opponent gaining possession" has been removed from the list of bookable offences. Handball is now a yellow card offence when "it stops/interferes with a promising attack".
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:22 #2

seesaw50 Offline First Team Player Posts: 1828 Likes received: 229	Interesting that...am still struggling to see what Miller did for his 2nd yellow ...he sprawled his length and his hand happened to touch the ball the way I've seen it twice now. He neither pushed it away or handled deliberately IMO!
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:26 #3

PADDOCK Offline Ball Boy Posts: 105 Likes received: 35	seesaw50 wrote: Interesting that...am still struggling to see what Miller did for his 2nd yellow ...he sprawled his length and his hand happened to touch the ball the way I've seen it twice now. He neither pushed it away or handled deliberately IMO! Of course he did, you can see his hand push forward and touch the ball towards a Carlisle player, plain as anything.
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:27 #4

TheLazyLewisGuy Offline First Team Player Posts: 1892 Likes received: 278	Maybe deliberate handball is a different law
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:33 #5

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The frustration I have is that you can look at the second yellow and say he was silly, but every game there are lots of cynical fouls, diving, gamesmanship etc. All minor stuff but pushing the boundaries of what you can get away with. We do it as much as anyone else.
It is now an expected part of the game.
If referees had a zero tolerance and booked every time someone committed these type of offences, then it would cut it out of the game, but there seems to be no consistency whatsoever.
So when an innocuous incident results in a red card, fair enough he should have been more careful, but I think he can consider himself a bit unlucky in the context of what goes on every week.

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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:38 #6

TheLazyLewisGuy Offline First Team Player Posts: 1892 Likes received: 278	The ref is just walking over and no hint of a yellow card until he sees the keeper flying out of goal and the way their fans celebrated it was pathetic.
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:41 #7

MerseysideBlue Offline Moderator Posts: 716 Likes received: 297	No complaints on the decision for me - was a stupid thing to do after picking up another stupid yellow card in the first-half. No need for it in an area where there was no danger.
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 17:56 #8

straightouttabrampton Offline Ball Boy Posts: 3 Likes received: 2	No disputing it was a hand ball - but under what law was he booked?
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 18:08 #9

Stamfordblue Offline Ball Boy Posts: 167 Likes received: 42	Watching the highlights the hangers goal keeper certainly influence the ref. Hope he is happy getting a fellow professional sent off. That said Miller was a bit daft handling in first place. Soft yellow
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 18:36 #10

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182blue wrote:

So what about a few minutes later when their guy on the e.stand touch line committed a foul and BLATANTLY threw the ball away. The ref was stood 2 yards away! No card for him ..Curle immediately went to the 4th official

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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 18:39 #11

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TheLazyLewisGuy wrote:

Chaged at the start of the year in the prem, I'm guessing we both play by the same rules..

In an effort to stop referees brandishing yellow cards for every handball, "preventing an opponent gaining possession" has been removed from the list of bookable offences.

Handball is now a yellow card offence when "it stops/interferes with a promising attack".

So if an attacker punches the ball into the opposition net it's not a yellow card anymore?

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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 18:40 #12

Dancingbear Offline Playmaker Posts: 3409 Likes received: 1703	Anyone watch the Boro game earlier. Lad had already been booked and committed a foul that was worth a yellow in anyones book. Apart from the ref that is.
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 18:41 #13

seesaw50 Offline First Team Player Posts: 1828 Likes received: 229	Not since the Maradonna one apparently! Surely it is a no goal and a booking
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 18:43 #14

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seesaw50 wrote:

Interesting that...am still struggling to see what Miller did for his 2nd yellow ...he sprawled his length and his hand happened to touch the ball the way I've seen it twice now. He neither pushed it away or handled deliberately IMO!

A player's reaction is normally a dead giveaway, Miller knew he'd done wrong and didn't even argue the decision. Blatant a handball as you can get.

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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 18:45 #15

franksidebottom Offline Reserve Squad Posts: 923 Likes received: 404	Stamfordblue wrote: Watching the highlights the hangers goal keeper certainly influence the ref. Hope he is happy getting a fellow professional sent off. That said Miller was a bit daft handling in first place. Soft yellow Hate seeing it happen, an awful trait in a footballer. To be honest though, Raynes does it most weeks.
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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 19:12 #16

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franksidebottom wrote:

TheLazyLewisGuy wrote:

So if an attacker punches the ball into the opposition net it's not a yellow card anymore?

That still interferes with a promising attack, their own.

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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 21:42 #17

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I said at the time it was a yellow card (deliberate handball) and again on Facebook earlier today. Seems I was wrong. The law has changed...

Q3: Why has the wording for a caution (YC) for handball changed?
Some referees were interpreting every handball as ‘denying the opponents possession’ so every handball was punished with a caution (YC) - this was not the intention of the Law. Where a handball affects the opponents it should be judged like a foul – if it stops or interferes with a promising attack then it is a caution (YC).
Read more at www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/...#Z4kHd43I3spi6D6A.99

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Handball law.. 16 Oct 2025 22:49 #18

seabird Offline Ball Boy Posts: 139 Likes received: 26	The referee then didn't know the new hand ball changes in the rules. Must admit I thought the ref got them both right according to what I thought was the rules.What He wasn't was not consistent ,in the first half a few mins after the first booking the Hartlepool player did indentical and wasn't booked.
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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 14:35 #19

Zebby Offline Reserve Squad Posts: 766 Likes received: 283	It was two yellows no problem with that... Opposition fans always cheer when player is sent off.. Of course goalie rushed out to remind ref they all do it Nothing contravertial apart from my spelling UTB
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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 15:10 #20

cufcdeano Online First Team Player Posts: 1884 Likes received: 581	Zebby wrote: Nothing contravertial apart from my spelling Nothing controversial...apart from the fact that Miller got a 2nd yellow card for doing something that since the beginning of this season has no longer been a yellow card offence?
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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 15:22 #21

Richard Archer Offline Reserve Squad Posts: 624 Likes received: 52	cufcdeano wrote: Zebby wrote: Nothing contravertial apart from my spelling Nothing controversial...apart from the fact that Miller got a 2nd yellow card for doing something that since the beginning of this season has no longer been a yellow card offence? Ha, good point that.
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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 15:39 #22

Waltero Offline Ball Boy Posts: 109 Likes received: 13	surely then the club should ask for clarification on this and get the red card rescinded and of course send the ref for retraining
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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 15:47 #23

CCU Offline Moderator Posts: 3279 Likes received: 1103	Waltero wrote: surely then the club should ask for clarification on this and get the red card rescinded and of course send the ref for retraining You can't appeal a Yellow though, which is what was given...
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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 15:49 #24

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CCU wrote:

Waltero wrote:

surely then the club should ask for clarification on this and get the red card rescinded and of course send the ref for retraining

You can't appeal a Yellow though, which is what was given...

Very true...the club shouldn't need to appeal it though. When the referee sends his report in, somebody should say "hang on a minute, you can't give a yellow card for that!" and it should be rescinded without even needing an appeal.

Of course, that won't happen though.

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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 15:55 #25

Waltero Offline Ball Boy Posts: 109 Likes received: 13	my point was if the referee got it wrong (he did) then surely the club can raise the question with the EFL as to why their appointed officials dont appear to understand the rules of the game. and why did the ref allow their goalie to have a go at the ref (again against their rules) Its a simple question another point the linesman on the paddock needs to be retrained on the off-side law
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Handball law.. 17 Oct 2025 21:23 #26

Seekaye Offline Ball Boy Posts: 116 Likes received: 55	Waltero wrote: and why did the ref allow their goalie to have a go at the ref (again against their rules) I tweeted the efl yesterday to ask them about this. Like CUOSC on the board restructure, they have so far declined to comment. I'll let you know when they reply
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Handball law.. Yesterday 09:05 #27

Waltero Offline Ball Boy Posts: 109 Likes received: 13	Im not holding my breath on waiting for the reply. Lifes too short. They just wont listen to criticisms against the match officials unless it involves the premiershit
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Handball law.. Yesterday 10:38 #28

Gundog Offline Ball Boy Posts: 176 Likes received: 93	Anyone who has ever played pub football has done this and then you stand there and think why the fk did I do that, we all have. It was a clear handball, he knows it we know it - move on.
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Handball law.. Yesterday 13:08 #29

heilkmoon Offline Youth Team Player Posts: 288 Likes received: 115	To me this was a deserved yellow for unsporting behaviour rather than handball. It looked like he tried a sneaky pass to a blue shirt with his hand and got caught.
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