ShermanMcTank@alien.topBtoFootball / Soccer / Calcio / Futebol / Fußball@soccer.forum•German referee Brych tears ACL in his record-tying game, out for a few monthsEnglish
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1 year agoTeam bus or plane breaks down because of too many travels
Team bus or plane breaks down because of too many travels
This sub makes me go insane sometimes.
It seems you have to break a bone for it to be a red card, and even then I’m sure half the sub would argue it’s not because it was an accident.
So to try to understand what the thought process was a bit more I went to IFAB, and technically the « chest to arm » scenario isn’t covered.
The closest we have is this :
This might seem like semantics but maybe the fact it’s not covered is why he went with it ?
Either way it shouldn’t be a thing, a player simply cannot control or predict where the ball is going in this situation. It’s just too unfair to give a penalty for that.