Ridiculous Handball Rule Cost Arsenal An Equaliser Vs Aston Villa – Jamie Redknapp

Popular pundit, Jamie Redknapp has come out to blast the terrible rule that prompted a VAR decision which ruled out Arsenal’s equaliser against Aston Villa. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, the EPL is getting itself into such a mess with its handball rules this season, because it will only lead to a reduced number of goals scored during matches.

Jamie added that whoever came up with the ridiculous laws lack the right foresight for how English football should be played.

His words, “It’s a rubbish rule. How can that be a handball? It struck Matty Cash. It is just rebounding around. It may just drop onto his hands and he knocks it into the net. The law being if you are the goalscorer and it touches your hands before you put the ball into the net, it’s not going to count.

We are getting ourselves into such a mess with these rules all the time. How on earth can that be a handball? It’s the rule at the moment. But if we are trying to be helpful and trying to improve to make it a best place for more goals, someone must look at goal. It’s a bad rule. It had grazed his arm. If he sticks his arm out and then it hits the hand, then it would be a handball anyway. Whoever has decided to come up with that as a law, I think it’s ridiculous. It cost Arsenal a goal.”