Comments on: FIFA may ban Henry – but no chance of replay

By: Dannyking

Dannyking — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:42:41 +0000

Please the ref didnt see anything so why should he be punish.

By: Arsenal1Again

Arsenal1Again — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:16:00 +0000

I know …. we’ll punish players from now on whenever a ref makes a wrong decision.

FIFA logic = ?

By: ASNLthruNthru

ASNLthruNthru — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:07:21 +0000

Nobody banned Maradona for his Hand of the Devil.Henry’s handball was not necessary intentional and has yet to be proven so. We had to swallow it,move on,Trappatoni and start preparations for thr Euros, your next failure!!

By: Mentuzza

Mentuzza — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:37:12 +0000

I think Henry’s handball was not deliberate. Watch the video again: it was an instinctive reaction to avoid touching the ball. His hand moved twice in quick succession. It happens all the time to all of us. I guess a forensic study of the video will confirm this.

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:56:51 +0000

Henry didn’t invent cheating in football! Cheating happens in everygame all the time – the shirt pulling, the diving, the extra yard on a throw in/freekicks.

I do not condone what Henry did. A man of his reputation should’ve done better. However, this whole ruckus built up by overblown articles in the media is due to the fact that Irish want to find a scapegoat for their own shortcomings.

The Scottish also did something similar in the Eduardo incident. They were clearly outplayed in both the legs and never looked close to salvage even a point from the game – however, the way they behaved it seemed like Eduardo had robbed them of a confirmed champions league place!

Yes Henry and Eduardo cheated – like many other footballers do in hundreds of games every week. So treat it as it is. Please do not vilify them as if they are the inventors of cheating just because the Irish or the Scottish or the English were at the receiving end.

Britain is fast becoming an abode for mediocrity because of this habit of blaming everything on foreigners and not taking any responsibility for their own shortcomings!