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Sarkozy apologizes for Henry’s handball skills
Published: 20 November, 2009, 13:00
Edited: 21 November, 2009, 10:18
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has apologized before Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen for the way his country qualified for South Africa 2010.
Sarkozy's communication's advisers had no problems suggesting to that machiavelic comedian to take some advantages of that silly football match. If our president will have been sincere or even smart, he will have requested that the match be replayed (the referee's mistake was so obvious). This would have influenced UEFA and FIFA to adapte football to the modern World. Beside, guess what is going to be the life of Thierry Henry. On every field, he will be the , even if a look at his carreer make him a very decent person. Same thing will occure for the french team and consequently to the whole french society. An intelligent, gentleman-president would have had that kind of elegance and understood what will be the future. Even if probably the FIFA's masters will still have refused. As far as I am concerned Sarkozy is an excited "nullity" (One more proof among so many others). I was a decent football player but this kind of show make me very sad. Pauvre France ! Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin
We have seen over the last week, serious failures in refereeing. FIFA needs to take this all on board, if it wants to ensure the fair play concept it is advertising, really exists. The players 'professionally' have learnt how to deceive the judges, and now see it as part of the game. This is a corrupt concept to base fair play on! We really need the TV replay for all contentious decisions. It is done in other sports, we need it in football as well. We can't have a situation where cheating is undetected, when it could easily be detected, be it a handball or 'induced' sending off or penalty.... Indeed the video could result in a total reverse, with someone trying to get unfair advantage, being immediately dismissed, now that would up the stakes for cheating. Isn't a fair contest the basis for sport? should we make sure we use simple technology to improve the chances of a fair contest.