Simon Jordan left fuming after footage emerges from West Ham United v Bournemouth
Simon Jordan left fuming after the referee decided to allow West Ham defender Kurt Zouma’s goal to stand v Bournemouth.
The Hammers won the game 2-0 and took the lead from a corner where Thilo Kehrer appeared to have handled the ball into the Frenchman’s stride.
The reason the goal stood was that Kehrer wasn’t the one to score it and did not deliberately move his arm in order to help set up the goal.
Speaking live on talkSPORT, Jordan said at 10:57 on 25/10, “It’s an illogical law. It’s the food of a poison tree. This is a bad rule. It’s not a bad interpretation of the rule. This is the part they [managers] have got to shut their mouth on. They’ve got to stop telling referees they’ve got it wrong about something
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David Moyes himself admitted that it was nice to be on the right side of a VAR call after things have gone against his side.
He does make a valid point as there were some dubious decisions going against them, costing them valuable points.
The rule is messy and does need to change because this is clearly not the long-tern solution for something so important.
Handball has always been debated in the past and despite all the technology, people are still left complaining.
Gary O’Neil is right to be fuming but his anger should be directed at the lawmakers and not at the referees as they just applied the laws.
West Ham certainly will take the win and the three points but they know that these kinds of calls can go against them as well which is highly unfair.