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THE EFL WOULD BE WISE TO AVOID VAR

ROY Hodgson put it perfectly when he complained about the farcical handball decisions that have blighted the early weeks of the Premier League.
“To me, handball is a simple rule,” said the 73-year-old. “When you deliberately handle it to stop a goal being scored or to gain an advantage, that’s handball. When the ball hits you, and you can do nothing about it, it’s not handball.”
That interpretation served the game perfectly well for decades, and everybody accepted - to an extent - some degree of subjectivity on the part of officials.
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