“Middlesbrough’s goal was allowed to stand because of a change to the handball law last summer,” former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg said in an article for the Daily Mail.
“Duncan Watmore handled the ball before finding Matt Crooks, who scored.
“But the tweaked law says a goal will only be disallowed if the scorer handles the ball — not the player in possession before him. And in this case, that was Watmore.
“Referee Anthony Taylor could have blown if he believed there had been a deliberate handball by the Boro man.
“He didn’t think it was deliberate because a miscontrol by Watmore meant the ball flicked up to hit his arm, and I agree with that verdict. It was accidental, so it was right that the goal stood.”
It beggars belief that Watmore’s handball was indeed accidental in the first place.
The fact that this goal was allowed only highlights the faults of the rules as they are because the goal would not have even been scored if it was not for the handball.
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