Sean Dyche shares what Premier League bosses really think of handball law with two examples

Sean Dyche has detailed the conversation between his fellow Premier League managers when they admitted they don’t know what the laws are for giving penalties for handballs anymore, prompting the group's elder statesman Roy Hodgson of Crystal Palace to speak out on the matter.

Manchester City were controversially awarded a spot-kick against Dyche’s Everton side when Amadou Onana was adjudged to have handled the ball, a decision that saw them go 2-1 up at Goodison Park in a 3-1 win on Wednesday night after trailing 1-0 at the break. The Blues boss referenced after the game, the recent online meeting he attended in which the confusion over the rules raised its head but ahead of Saturday’s trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers, he elaborated on the lengths that the issue is now being discussed by his peers.

Dyche said: “When they come out with these rules how many active football people, managers, do they speak to? And this can be across the board, it doesn’t have to be the Premier League.

"They may do that, but I have a feeling they probably don’t, and if they do they keep it under wraps because I have never heard of it. Handball is such an odd thing.

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"The one the other day from (Arsenal’s Martin) Odegaard, how is that not a penalty? It is just bizarre, and then the one on Wednesday night, that is where we are going how can those two things be that different in their outcome?

“Everyone is scratching their head. Howard (Webb, chief refereeing officer for the Professional Game Match Officials Limited, the body responsible for