Handball immediately after touching another part of your or another players body

[havenlad]

Hi all - first post here

I don't see it anywhere in the law, but if the ball touches the hand immediately after, ignoring common sense, is it written that a handball cant be given? Thanks

 

[socal lurker]

Not any more. It used to (sort of) be written that way. But it didn't always apply even then. Now, it is simply about whether it was deliberate or the arm was making the body unnaturally bigger. If it is making the body unnaturally bigger for what the player is doing, it remains handling even if it hits the body first. (Hitting the body first may have a subjective effect on the referee's judgment as to whether it was making the body unnaturally bigger for what the player was doing.