FULHAM manager Scott Parker has heaped more pressure on football’s authorities to revisit the controversial handball rule introduced this season that denied his team a deserved equaliser against Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday. 

“Tonight, it’s just about common sense really,” Parker reflected. “We’re trying to make the game so pure and sterile and trying to control every single phase of every single moment to an absolute tee. That’s where the problem lies for me.”

“What we want to see as fans and spectators is goals and excitement and VAR is killing every bit of it. You’re losing the raw emotion of the game we absolutely love. We did more than enough to win the game, let alone get something out of it.”