Gary Lineker

Alas...

No, the referee waved away the buy-in protests with the video assistant referee also not intervening.

And a lot of social media was left wondering why Spock kicked.

But according to the laws of the game, it's not a handball if it hits you on the hand or the arm by the ball, which has been played by a teammate, unless the ball goes directly into the opponent's goal or the player scores immediately afterward.

in which case a direct free kick is awarded to the team.

So there you go.

It covers when the ball is unexpectedly hit at you by a teammate, even if your arm is away from your body.

So therefore, it's not a penalty because that was definitely the case in this one.

But what happens if, like, there's...

If it gets deflected by someone before that, I mean, they seem to have everything sort of covered.

Do you know what?

Do you remember the old handball law?

Sometimes you'd argue about decisions, but you sort of knew really when a penalty was right and when a penalty was wrong.

But I don't think that's the case now.

But by the letter of the law...

of this particular law that I have to admit.

I mean, I know the laws of the game.

I've studied them a lot, but I didn't realize that one.

I wasn't aware of that one, to be honest.

Must be clause 17F or something.