Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher dissects the flashpoints from the festive football, including incidents from Man City’s win at Everton, Chelsea’s victory against Crystal Palace, Liverpool’s win at Burnley and Bernd Leno’s ball boy push in Fulham’s loss at Bournemouth.
INCIDENT: Manchester City were awarded a second-half penalty in their 3-1 win at Everton after Amadou Onana was judged to have handballed from Nathan Ake’s shot.
Sean [Dyche] says there that it wasn’t deliberate. I get that, it wasn’t. There’s no way it was deliberate. But deliberate isn’t written in the law, and 90 per cent of penalties that are given for handball are not deliberate anyhow.”
SO DOES THE HANDBALL LAW NEED TO BE CHANGED?
DERMOT SAYS: “I think it’s inevitable that come March’s meeting [IFAB Annual General Meeting] that something will get tweaked, because it’s just week after week after week, we’re talking about a similar subject.
“We look at similar incidents and by and large, you’re getting penalties. There’s been a lot more penalties given for handball than ever before.”
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Highlights from the Premier League as Chelsea faced Crystal Palace
INCIDENT: Chelsea were awarded a late penalty for a foul on Noni Madueke by Crystal Palace forward Eberechi Eze that Madueke converted to give the Blues a 2-1 home win. The foul was initially not given by referee Michael Salisbury but he overturned his decision after being sent to the pitchside monitor by VAR.
DERMOT SAYS: “Clear penalty for me. The player dangles a leg, Madueke’s going round him, Eze doesn’t get the ball and he’s nowhere near the ball so I think clear penalty. Good intervention from VAR.
Asked why Michael Salisbury failed to initially award the penalty, Dermot replied: “He just misread the situation because he’s waved it away.
“But in fairness to him, he retains all options so he can go to the screen and he can still say, ‘No, I don’t think it’s a penalty’. He’s gone to the screen and he’s very quickly looked and gone, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve made a mistake there – penalty’, but it is a penalty.”
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