Daniel Storey: Football can't allow farcical handball situation to fester
Referee Peter Bankes checks the VAR pitch side monitor before giving a penalty for a handball against Tottenham Hotspur's Eric Dier. Picture: Andrew Boyers/NMC Pool/PA Wire.
You cannot accuse Roy Hodgson of being one-eyed. When his Crystal Palace team were awarded a penalty for handball against Manchester United last week, Hodgson insisted that he longed for “the simple version of handball”. This weekend it was Palace who were the victims of a nonsensical law change. Hodgson was fuming.
