FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Premier League - Manchester United v Watford - Old Trafford, Manchester, Britain - February 23, 2020 Referee Martin Atkinson indicates to a handball after disallowing a goal REUTERS/Phil Noble
BERN (Reuters) - Players and coaches around Europe are becoming increasingly perplexed by the current handball rule which one has said is best suited to table football.
Forwards have seen goals chalked off for almost imperceptible handballs while defenders have conceded penalties for unintentional ones in innocuous situations because their arm was seen as making the body "unnaturally bigger."
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