Handball rule changes

[ajthefox]

Anyone heard of the t-shirt rule..?

 

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The International Football Association Board (Ifab) wrote to the four British football associations on Tuesday to confirm the approved changes to the laws of the game for 2020-21.

 

This includes using the "T-shirt line" to differentiate between the arm and the shoulder for handball decisions.

 

Irish FA chief executive Patrick Nelson explained the importance of the change at Ifab's recent AGM, saying "the shoulder itself doesn't really have an opportunity to make the body bigger whereas the arms do".

 

The "T-shirt line" or armpit - essentially where the sleeve on a T-shirt ends - will become a key marker on the player's body for match officials, with anything below that being handball.

 

Jonathan Ford, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, explained the law change as "basically a clarification as to where exactly does the arm start in the case of handball and where does the shoulder finish".

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52208435

 

I'm not convinced this will help really.

[Xen]

10 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

Anyone heard of the t-shirt rule..?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52208435

 

I'm not convinced this will help really.

Reckon a fair few clubs will change their planned kit designs so that the distinction between shoulder/arm isn't as obvious. Arsenal's white sleeves, for instance, would probably make it (marginally) easier to give a handball decision than a solid colour like our blue where the 't-shirt line' isn't as clear-cut.

[StanSP]

Bet Chris Kavanagh would still say these aren't below the t-shirt line:

 

[Ian Norman Droid]

Stupid rule changes all the time. The top of your arm under the sleeve is your arm, not your shoulder. It really isn't that difficult. 

 

1 hour ago, StanSP said:

Bet Chris Kavanagh would still say these aren't below the t-shirt line:

This one in particular really winds me up. As clear and obvious as it could possibly be. They clearly looked at the wrong one. 

[davieG]

Does the whole of the ball have to be over the t shirt line?
 

Is there a standard length of t shirt sleeve and does it vary on the size of shirt and someone arm length?

[bmt]

10 hours ago, Ian Norman Droid said:

Stupid rule changes all the time. The top of your arm under the sleeve is your arm, not your shoulder. It really isn't that difficult. 

 

This one in particular really winds me up. As clear and obvious as it could possibly be. They clearly looked at the wrong one. 

Agreed, it's the 'cover up' that was so annoying about that. Would have been easy to admit they were wrong but they were trying to defend a faulty system.

[Wortho]

12 hours ago, StanSP said:

Bet Chris Kavanagh would still say these aren't below the t-shirt line:

 

I don't know about Chris Kavanagh but what about Dean??? About 5 yards away and he can't see that.