📸 Handball controversy! Should Newcastle's equaliser at Spurs have stood? | OneFootball

📸 Handball controversy! Should Newcastle's equaliser at Spurs have stood? | OneFootball

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Padraig Whelan·4 January 2025

📸 Handball controversy! Should Newcastle's equaliser at Spurs have stood?

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Anthony Gordon's equaliser for Newcastle away to Tottenham on Saturday afternoon was not without its controversy.

It came after an attempted pass from Lucas Bergvall in the build-up struck the hand of Magpies midfielder Joelinton.


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When the ball came Gordon's way, he made no mistake by rifling into the corner to make the score 1-1.

A justification for the reasoning behind the goal swiftly followed.

But do you agree with it? Or should the goal have been ruled out?


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