Replay! Replay!

So this is a blog mostly about what I deem to be the four major sports, but there are times that those other games have to be considered here, and this is one of those times. France defeated Ireland, but could not do it without a little bit of controversy. Come the 103rd minute of the match, a great match to that point, the ugliness began. Thierry Henry was found himself in a position to help his team win, so what did he do? Something that you are not supposed to. (I know what you are thinking, just like the French, right?) He went to redirect the ball, and rather than using his knee, he thought that his hand would do just fine.




Well I am not the biggest soccer fan, but even I know you can not do that. And the Ireland team knows it too, and they want something done about it. They want a rematch, a replay. They want to know why they are not going to the World Cup because of such an obvious disregard for the rules. Which if you ask me, makes a lot of sense.

Fifa does not really agree however, and they have declined such a match. Henry himself thinks that this is something that should be done however, calling it the "fairest solution." Well it just does not look like it is in the cards for the Irish though, because Fifa probably is not going to budge.

It just does not make sense to me, how can this go on? The result is so flawed, and so obviously so, that it just makes me laugh at how this "sport" continues to push me and others away. If nothing else just start the game from where they would have called the handball and find out the real winner, the fair way.