Comments on: The Sweeper: Justice and Football

By: Flanagan

Flanagan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:01:27 +0000

Me either. Just like I haven’t forgotten all the dives and last minute penalties that helped secure “The Invincibles” season.

What I also won’t forget is Platini’s myriad, sprawling, child-like rationales about why the introduction of goal line technology will destroy this game we all love.

Use it only to review controversial goals. A review team could’ve cancelled out that goal before the French had even finished celebrating. Period.

It’s a scandal and a fucking disgrace. This is the World Cup we’re talking about, not a U12 youth tournament.

Even as a Man United fan, I’ve always had great respect for Henry, unlike Pires and others he played with; however, it’s so obvious his 2 (!!!) handballs were completely intentional.

The French were getting desperate. Anelka and others had flung themselves to the ground to earn free kicks and a peno. Etc and so on. It crept into Henry’s game–he’s guilty, no matter his disclaimers.

As a side note, can anyone explain to me how Lassana Diarra wasn’t, at least, yellow carded in that match? I thought the ref was good at times, but overall he had, well, a fairly strange match.

By: Stephen Piggott

Stephen Piggott — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:40 +0000

I wont be forgetting about it in 3 weeks.

By: Tom Dunmore

Tom Dunmore — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:08:14 +0000

Jonathan — not sure about that, 23 years have passed since Maradona’s handball and that’s hardly been forgotten….Not that this was of the same magnitude, but not too far off either.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:33:47 +0000

Not likely. Most people will have forgotten about this whole thing within about 3 weeks.

By: bud

bud — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:15:33 +0000

Henry deserves to never again to be able to walk onto an away pitch without being treated harshly. And if he dares come to the MLS, he can expect me to be coming over the wall after him when he comes to my city.

By: evan eleven

evan eleven — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:36:06 +0000

yes football, like life, will never be completely fair, but we have the capablility to make it more fair, and the Henry Handball should be the last last straw. we need video correction NOW, if there’s enuff international outrage over this incident in the stadiums and on the internet maybe we can force FIFA’s hand before the worldcup next year. and if FIFA still refuses we in the USA should demand that MLS adopt this technology before the start of next season and show the rest of the world how it should be done…

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:22:15 +0000

What’s the deal with Algerians and Egyptians? Is this strictly soccer hooligan related stuff or Shiite/Sunni stuff or political or what?

And what’s up with the French-Algerians setting stuff in Fire in France after they lost last weekend. Get a grip people?

http://sports.yahoo.com/video/player/sow/16653992;_ylt=Ale2gliWBgco_DmBNrbsXdgXRJ54