crazy! How come they didn’t call a handball penalty in West Ham-Chelsea?

The day just started at premier league, but we now have the controversial image of the weekend. It happened in a tie between West Ham vs Chelsea after a few hands in the home team’s area that Craig Pawson didn’t point out and where VAR didn’t intervene.

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The play is given as follows. Connor Gallagher The ball is on the edge of the area and is shot with the left foot. When that shot went out Tomas Soucek that he dived to cut with his body and the ball clearly hit his detached arm. That led to protests by all the Chelsea players as, to add more fuel, the possible penalty was played in the 89′.

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Some have argued that VAR did not come in because of the rule that says when a hand is on the ground being supported or towards it, it is not a penalty. The issue here is that, as seen in the replay, Soucek’s hand goes to the ball and slightly corrects its initial direction, only to end up resting on the ground.