Tony Mowbray questions handball rules after West Brom's defeat at Plymouth

The Albion boss watched his side finally break down a solid Plymouth backline with Jayson Molumby's goal in the second half.

But the lead lasted for just three minutes, before Callum Styles was penalised for a handball in the box and Ryan Hardie fired home the spot kick.

Plymouth then went on to win the game with a late Hardie strike, but Mowbray was left perplexed as to why Styles had been penalised.

A shot from close-range rocketed off Styles' midriff on to his outstretched arm. 

Mowbray said: "He literally lashes it and it its him 0.01 seconds later. I don't understand the handball rule. The refs know the law.

"He is two yards away from the lad and he has lashed it, what do you want the guy to do?

"If they say he is trying to make his body bigger, I understand that, but I spoke to the fourth official and he was pretty bewildered, but there you go we have to live with it.

"I am clear in my own mind on the penalty, and it isn't bias, if I was watching a Premier League game on a Sunday there would have been carnage about, questions of 'what is handball?'

"We have to accept the decision but I'd have like to have seen what VAR would have done.

"I always tell players a poor decision from the referee or from one of your players can change a game, and it felt like that today.

"The dressing room is a bit shaken, thinking how did we find a way to lose a game of football that we dominated so much."