We must add a little content to tiresome debates. As it goes by fashion, two issues that could elevate football should be put on the table, instead of simply making noise. One is the Subsidiary League and the other is the rule of hands within the area. Both are open and not minor. Alavés is in the First Division due to the signaling of a hand in the last second of extra time in the match they played against Levante to move up in category. Madrid Castilla is disputing promotion to the Second Division against Eldense, after eliminating Barça Atlètic. Two games from last weekend that show the two debates: the hands and the subsidiaries.
Without going into technicalities, the rule that penalizes any hand in the area that is separated from the body because it occupies unnatural space is generally not fair. Soccer players cannot jump with their arms glued together, because that is unnatural, nor should they defend by crossing their hands from behind to prevent the ball from hitting their arm. It doesn’t sound fair to take a penalty against a team because a defender has risen up and the ball ends up touching his arm from behind, with his back turned, without realizing it and without any opportunity for the attacker to take advantage. Well, it’s a penalty. It is clear that you have to reflect and lower the rule to reality. Soccer is better if the rules are not to be interpreted. Criticism was made about judging the player’s intention, but it is clear that the important thing is to follow the spirit of the game, not simply apply the rules, which can be unfair as in the case of hands. It’s time to spend some time to find a solution. That of incorporating into the rule the fact that there is the manifest possibility of having an advantage should be considered.
As well as giving a spin to the possibility of creating a League of subsidiaries, which would compete with each other. At the moment there are already ten categories in the world of football. If a team is assembled tomorrow and wants to reach the First Division, they have to achieve no more and no less than nine promotions, with clubs that invest, make an effort and have a hard time to maintain the budget.
Subsidiaries compete with them. They are the cubs of the big teams that, surely, would be better off competing with each other, measuring themselves as equals, with a clear interest in training players and also the audience, since one would have the feeling that they would be the ones to come, playing with each other. The competition would be of height and interest. It is worth organizing and risking. Total, it will no longer come from one more competition, after rounding ten to reach the top.
