Whymewhynot
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My understanding is that if a player is protecting his face instinctively then that is not handball. A handball where the player is deliberately making his profile bigger (as the leicester player did) leads to a penalty. That's a different situation.
All then does depend on the laws doesn’t it. Protecting your face isn’t or hasn’t ever been a thing I don’t think. It’s not hit his hands by his sides. He’s instinctively raised his arms to protect his face but basically moved his arms to the ball and blocked the shot towards goal. It’s a pen, that’s why everyone and Micah said the same, as well as commentators. Both incidents were pens. I’m not complaining one going in our favour but there always seems to be blues never able to admit when we get one. Still had many more against us than for us though.