Anybody who knows me will acknowledge that I am not a football fan.
I will watch the occasional game if England are playing a crucial match. I always look to see what Cheltenham has scored. But nobody could be less interested.
However, I do sympathise with Ireland for being put out of the World Cup because of a cheat. Of the cheating there is no question. The player acknowledges that he cheated. His Manager acknowledges he cheated. The FIA acknowledges he cheated, and God knows how many people around the world know that he cheated.
Crucially, FIFA, football’s governing body know he cheated and they are the only ones that could do anything about it. But they refuse!
What does that tell you about them? What does it say about football? What does it tell children about cheating?
Any other sport, if cheating is revealed AFTER the event ends, it is dealt with.
Formula One, you get fined and penalised.
Athletics, you get your medal stripped and penalised.
Cricket, yes even cricket, where cheating was almost written into the rules until the abolition of the ‘Gentlemen-Players distinction’ in 1963.
But not football.
Pathetic!
But football is not a sport Roger more moe a waste of time