CapnBloodbeard
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I have seen responses from the IFAB technical committee following the same lines of thought.How do we know if the 'directive or interpretation' in this video has been endorsed by IFAB?
The idea about unnatural position is that the onus is on the defender to try handling. In line with that video.I agree with all your points RJ, That said, Like Minty, I'm also not convinced on this Unnatural position clap trap, If i'm a defender, i'm doing just that, defending, I cant predict where the ball will be struck against me so how can it be a deliberate action to hand ball it!! It was a chanced connection, hardly deliberate on the defenders part. I always thought of myself of a decent judge on this and still get the majority right on TV. The ones I wince at are the arms flaying behind a defender given as hand ball, scandalous!!!
Good thing that the LOTG talk about consideration given to the position of the hand.
I think the best example of unnatural position is if the wall all stuck their arms up in the air before the ball was kicked. It's hand to ball, not ball to hand. Their hand doesn't move towards the ball - it just shouldn't have been there.
Like when you're closing down an attacker. It's on you to make sure you're not sticking your arms right out to the side.
Or running across in front of a ball that's being kicked - you don't get to stick your arms out in front and smother the kick.