VAR has magnified handball injustices – time to adjust the penalties

This week’s Champions League games saw players punished for having arms and moving. I’ve lost sense of what handball is

The referee Daniel Siebert gives Manchester City a penalty against Sporting after a needless VAR review

The first draft of this column began with me rehashing one of my three anecdotes. Not the microwave or the six-pound peach, the one where I ranted on TalkSport about how repetitive and boring the Lord of the Rings films are to the point where the boss texted to ask whether I’d ever considered being so energised about football.

So it was with some disappointment when the editor sent this back to say I had used the same story TWO WEEKS AGO – literally my previous column! Nothing like repetition when criticising something for being repetitive. If I was smarter, I could say I meant it.