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If they are reasonably close to the ground a small bag of sand should cover them safely enough.

You may well be right. But it is clear they only attached the phrase unless the player deliberately plays the ball which then touches their hand/arm to the bullet point about raised arms. This is clearly deliberate. They may change it next year, but until they do we need to enforce it.

Santa Sangria said: "And I have a follow up question that I just alluded to: can an arm above the shoulder also be making oneself unnaturally bigger... can we sanction a handball where a player plays the ball themselves onto the own hand above shoulder height because we believe they have made...

I think we are meant to realise that there are two things that generally lead to a handball offence: 1. Making yourself unnaturally bigger 2. Hand/arm raised above shoulder Since it goes to the trouble of mentioning both, it is clear that in Law they are separate (perhaps think of number 2 as...

I am sorry but I strongly disagree with the general opinion here. If a player deliberately plays the ball which then hits their own hand (which is above shoulder level), it is NOT a handling offence. The line in the Laws that counts is one single bullet point...under the list of things that...

Peter Grove...where is this other thread?

And, as a follow up, the Laws don't say how long to allow the defender before a challenge (interfering with an opponent - offside) becomes a new phase of play (not offside). In fact it doesn't really mention new phases of play at all, so it's really up to you; but I would certainly allow a few...

I remember running the line as a CAR 30 years ago, and offside has certainly become a different beast. In those days a player was basically offside if they were in an offside position when the ball was played and ended up anywhere within about 50 yards of the ball. "Not interfering" to many...

I came late into refereeing and am now into my fifties and have been officiating for about six years. I recently was AR for a ladies game. blues were defending and cleared the ball. Reds played a long ball back from inside their own half as all the players were moving back towards half way...