SingYourHeartsOut
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You need the guidance on interpretation though.I know this isnt going to be a popular opinion but in my interpretation of law 12 it was a penalty. When the deflection handball rule change came into force this was the clarification statement given by the PL when IFAB changed the rule:
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As Gomes hand was neither "close to his body" as well as clearly "making his body unnaturally bigger" so he doesnt get a free pass.
This is Law 12
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What puzzles me is that those rules are quite easy to find and have to be learned and updated by 14 year old refs every year. And yet we have pundits on the TV paid a lot of money who clearly have no idea what they are talking about.
What happens when a player heads/kicks the ball and it then hits their own hand/arm?
This is not handball (unless the ball goes directly into the opponents’ goal or the player scores immediately afterwards, in which case a direct free kick is awarded to the other team).