West Ham United manager David Moyes has said the decision to rule out Danny Ings’ goal against Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium was “very strange.” The Hammers missed their chance to seal their Premier League survival with a 2-0 loss to the Bees as a highly rotated West Ham side were defeated courtesy of first half goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa. Mubama had held his arm out to stop himself crashing into the post, but Oliver adjudged the incident as deliberate handball, a decision that left Moyes incredibly surprised.
David Moyes said: “Yes, very strange. The Premier League have come out and called it deliberate handball, which I think everybody would need to a get a bit of an explanation on that. The first thing I would say about it is that I think it’s really inconclusive to say anything. If anything, my view might see it that way, it hits his shoulder if its anything, it’s right on his collarbone. I don’t see how it was chalked off. If it was a handball that leads to a goal, I think we all know that rule, but I definitely don’t see how it was conclusive and I certainly don’t see deliberate which if anything, he may be protecting himself from going onto the post trying to get his arms up to protect [himself]. I’m amazed it’s chalked off but hey, let’s be fair, if this was the first one we were talking about in recent games, we would be saying, hey, this can happen. We’re now talking about three of these, regularly. It’s getting regular.”
