I’ve thought for a while now that handballs in the box should be punished with indirect free kicks. Penalties for them are too harsh, and I think that’s most of the reason calls like this make people so angry. Some genuine handballs are also as accidental and unlucky as you like, and to have basically a free goal given for them is incredibly unjust. If we had that approach, I could easily see this being called with no uproar over it.
I’ve thought for a while now that handballs in the box should be punished with indirect free kicks. Penalties for them are too harsh, and I think that’s most of the reason calls like this make people so angry. Some genuine handballs are also as accidental and unlucky as you like, and to have basically a free goal given for them is incredibly unjust. If we had that approach, I could easily see this being called with no uproar over it.