Daniel Storey: Football can't allow farcical handball situation to fester

Daniel Storey goes through the biggest talking points of the Premier League weekend

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. 

New handball law is unfit for purpose 

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.