‘For the life of me’: Joe Cole, Rio Ferdinand went crazy about West Ham vs Manchester United handball incident last night.
West Ham should have been given a penalty just before half-time when Victor Lindelof handled the ball inside his own area from a Said Benrahma cross.
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Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole were on pundit duty for BT Sport and both of them dissected the incident during the half-time break.
The Hammers beat Man United 1-0 in the end – a result that all but secures our Premier League status for at least one more season.
David Moyes would have been delighted with the three points, but not the officiating. But was it just us moaning about the poor decision just before half-time, or were those outside the club in agreement with us as well?
Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole give West Ham vs Manchester United handball verdicts
The former West Ham players were both pundits for the game last night.
And Joe Cole started off, when asked on BT Sport whether the Hammers should have been given a spot kick (Sunday, May 7th, 7:53pm):
“Without a doubt 100% (it was a penalty). He has moved his arm towards the ball, I don’t understand for the life of me why VAR hasn’t looked at it. It killed West Ham against Liverpool and it’s happened again, David Moyes will be furious.”
And then Rio Ferdinand chimed in:
“We all shouted handball immediately. You see his arm, he moves his arm towards the ball. I don’t know how the referee hasn’t been told to go over and have a look at it.”
How on earth that decision wasn’t given last night is absolutely mind-boggling.
It’s not VAR that’s the problem, it’s the inept officials operating it.
There is clearly biased towards the so-called big six teams as well. When was the last time we got a big decision given in our favour against one of those sides?
Rio Ferdinand and Joe Cole both thought the handball incident was farcical. So it’s good to know that it wasn’t just us who through we should have been given a penalty.
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