Like Brexit, football’s new handball rule has split the country – but any links between the two sagas must surely end there.
That’s despite Ian Holloway’s latest rant, in which he bizarrely held the European Union responsible for Gabriel Jesus’ late goal for Manchester City against Tottenham being ruled out.
But fear not, because the former QPR manager, seemingly unaware of Britain’s prominent role in football’s law-making process, claimed Brexit would ‘sort that out’.
“I don’t think that’s our boys making up that new change of law,” he told The Debate on Sky Sports.
“I think that’s people telling us what we should do with our game. Now, they should stop doing that.
“I hope we get out of Brexit, because that’s what we all voted for, and sort that out, because you cannot have someone telling us how to do our own game.”
As you probably know, the EU has absolutely nothing to do with the new handball law.
In fact, it’s actually the other way round, with Britain telling the rest of the world how football should be governed.
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The International Football Association Board (IFAB), which institutes such law changes, is comprised of five members: the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Football Associations, plus FIFA.
New rules are only passed if a majority of at least six vote in their favour. The FA, SFA, FAW and IFA each have one vote, while FIFA has four.
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