259. How many handballs before it’s handball?

How many handballs does it take before it's classed as handball? That was the question we asked PGMOL over the weekend after West Ham were denied a penalty in the last minute against Burnley because a ridiculous law of the game says that if a player kicks or heads the ball against his own hand, it is not handball.

In this particular scenario, the ball hit the Burnley player's head, then his left hand and then his right hand. So we asked, does the second handball cancel out the first? PGMOL's answer was "no." Therefore, how many times does a player need to handball it before it's deemed handball? They couldn't answer that one.

James and Will discussed that incident and loads more on this week's pod, before looking ahead to Thursday's Europa League last-16 second-leg against Freiburg and Sunday's visit of Aston Villa.

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