Just been roused from my slumber by a comment at the Fulham v Man United game that it wasn’t a foul because the player grabbing hold of another player’s arm didn’t have hold of it for long enough . A few hours earlier while watching Villa v West Ham, Jamie Carragher said it wasn’t a penalty because the player grabbing an opponent’s shirt did not have hold of it for long enough.

When were the laws of the game amended to read “no offence will have been committed if the player grabbing hold of an opponent or their shirt does not do so for more than x amount of seconds”?