The pundits were certainly split on the decision – and there was some confusion over the actual wording of the law, too.<\/p>\n
Ex-Premier League forward Chris Sutton said on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club it was a “scandal” and “really, really harsh”.<\/p>\n
“That’s not a penalty,” he said. “That’s absolutely not a penalty. Who knows what the directive is, but his arm is down by his side.<\/p>\n
“We’ll hear David Moyes after – but that’s a scandal, I think. That’s never a penalty.”<\/p>\n
Former Everton defender Conor Coady, now at Wrexham, added: “I don’t like it. I don’t like the rule – I don’t know what is and isn’t handball these days.”<\/p>\n
But Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher were both in agreement on Sky Sports that the referee got it right.<\/p>\n
“The guilt was written all over Tarkowski’s face. He knows it is a penalty,” said Neville. <\/p>\n
“Tarkowski moved his arm towards the ball. He leans into it and he blocks it. It is a penalty, and he knows what he has done. <\/p>\n
“He knows it is a penalty. He knows that he has made a mistake.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pundits were certainly split on the decision – and there was some confusion over the actual wording…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-355248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115052155004445189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}