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Read my suggestion again, I account for this - if an opponent deliberately (or is viewed to have deliberately) kicked the ball at a player's arm there's not offence. It accounts for players walloping against a defender's arm. It is true. Most of what you've written there is largely irrelevant...

But there is still an inequality of deliberate handball that goes the other way - Steve Cook was adjudged to have deliberately handled the ball to stop a goal on saturday and was sent off and is now suspended for the next game. Calvert Lewin was adjudged to have deliberately handled the ball to...

As someone else pointed out in the thread on the day, last season that goal would have been held up as an example of why we need VAR. The law was that it had to be intentional, but that was not the way many people wanted it implemented, with accidental handballs being pointed to as reasons for...

Nope. It's not about time, it's about phases of play, and is subjectively decided by the ref: What about those dreaded 'phases of play'? Many decisions will depend on which phase of play the incident occurred in. For instance, a foul or offside can only be reviewed if it occurred in the phase...