Just another day with referees.

It’s a different rule in different competition tbf, so whilst I agree in general, this specific example doesn’t help at all.

It all depends on wether the handball is deemed deliberate.

Hand balls in European comps are generally insane tbf

Just making the decision in the EPL looks more insane, joellington absolutely wasn’t even trying to play the ball at all. Used his hand to handle the ball while shoving Gabi.

Ridiculous decision imo it happens so long before the goal.

Na that was a wrong call by the ref there

Would someone get Mikel on the phone?!!

That was a disgusting decision

One of the many things that annoys me about the newcastle incident, is people saying VAR can’t intervene on a handball as he didn’t score the goal.

But that’s not true VAR can say that it was a handball offence if they believe so, like in this video. The goal scorer handball rule is regardless of if it would be a foul otherwise. So the potential handball was totally swept under the rug when discussing the incident.

Similar with the excuses about not having angles for the offside and ball out of play. “well they didn’t have them so what could they do?” Never stopped them before.

And now the “independent” review means we should have to accept that Gabriel wasn’t fouled.