UEFA President issues SAD NEWS on Anthony Taylor, referee for the match between Manchester 2: 0 over Chelsea and this have cost him his Job
The replays showed the ball catching the underarm of the Croat, which led to questions about football rules. IFAB Law 12 addresses handball definition criteria. One clause says,
“If a player uses their hand or arm to contact the ball while it has made their body abnormally larger, it will be deemed illegal. When the hand or arm posture of a player does not coincide with, or justifiable by, the player’s body movement for that particular scenario, the player is said to have made their body unnaturally larger.”
Now Kovacic’s arm was not in a natural posture, but the former Chelsea player was spared by the closeness when Gusto fired the shot. Under the referee’s discretion, the proximity law examines whether the player had time to naturally place his arms before the ball struck his arm.
“Officials still heavily weigh the closeness of the player whose hand or arm contacts the ball to where the ball was struck from when deciding whether to award handball or not,” says a Premier League statement.
When Kovacic scored Manchester City’s second goal soon after, Chelsea started their championship campaign in interesting way and experienced further suffering.
