Is it just PGMOL or is the rest of the world treating "gains possession/control" as "any touch" and "creates a goalscoring opportunity" as "making no difference whatsoever to a goalscoring opportunity"?
A reminder that the explanation for the change was "football does not accept" or "football expects" and we can all see that football does not expect stupid decisions.
A defender could deliberately handle the ball onto an attacker's hand and that would rule out a subsequent goal - with a free kick to the team whose played had deliberately handled. Is this really what football expects?
Just checking the changes for 20/21, and they are still badly drafted.
"• after the ball has touched their or a team-mate’s
hand/arm, even if accidental, immediately:
• scores in the opponents’ goal
• creates a goal-scoring opportunity"
"Clarification that:
• if an attacking player accidentally touches the ball with their hand/arm and the ball then
goes to another attacking player and the attacking team immediately scores, this is a
handball offence;
• it is not an offence if, after an accidental handball, the ball travels some distance (pass
or dribble) and/or there are several passes before the goal or goal-scoring opportunity."
Dribble? What exactly is a dribble? Can you dribble without an opponent? How close to the ball does the player need to be?
Immediately? How long is that?
How far is some distance?
How many is several?
and/or? Seriously? It can't be both.
Frankly, IFAB are getting worse.