I have an answer for this mad new hand ball rule.Its obvious that all managers are against it so why not get together and agree when ever any team gets given a blatantly wrong hand ball decision they get word to the penalty taker to miss it wide intentionally.This hopefully will force the change to this ridiculous interpretation of the hand ball rule.

Didn't someone on TV say the to$$ers who made and implemented the new rules don't meet again until March? Until then, defenders have to keep their hands behind their backs and the silly rules have to be applied consistently.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Newcastle and Carroll actively sought to gain from the rule this afternoon and blew any notion of solidarity amongst the football fraternity out of the water IMO. Looked like deliberate exploitation of the rules.

Quite Frankly, I've no problem with this. Someone puts a stupid rule in place, you look to exploit it. hopefully it'll only expedite a solution.

As for VAR. I agree, it's not the tools fault, but the people wielding it. They appear to operate without any common sense, seeing everything as black and white - it's either a foul or it isn't. 'They' have tried to make it simple, but ended up making it laughable.
Also, as soon as the ref goes to look at the monitor, there seems to be no option other than for him to change his decision.

The recent Offside rule changes is a perfect illustration of badly implemented use of VAR technology. The rule hasn't actually changed, but whoever pushed through this idea that the linesman shouldn't flag until the move has finished is stupid.

Var is a good tool, but it needs a layer of common sense applied. Something which is clearly lacking.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"