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Originally Posted by jmurphyc
It won't be forgotten at the world cup when France are playing I am sure there will be a lot of comments about whether the French team should be their.
If the boot was on the other foot and Ireland got through their through similar cheating I would not feel happy about it, because there would always be the thought that we had to cheat to get there.
There won't be a replay, but still every reason to slate the FFF & FIFA who are even worse....
I think FIFA have to be careful, it is the teams that make the tournement and they do not, if they choose not to, have to play for a corrupt organnisation.
The majority of the teams do onot benefit from having a corrupt draw rigging organisation running the tournement, so they could easilly set up thier own tournement and that would effectively put and end to FIFA, any team staying with FIFA would have no credibility.
I think we should remember the French are a proud and decent peeple and many of them will find it unacceptable that they qualified in this manner.
So if the French say they want a replay too to avoid the embarassment and humilation of having qualified via cheating then that puts FIFA in an impossible position regarding
not having a replay.
Wenger and the French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde have called for a replay and I am sure a lot of other French people would like to see that to.
So perhaps to the decency of the French rather than the corruption of FIFA?
After all even if France won the cup it would be a hollow and shameful victory.
It's been shown throughout mankind that consistent unfairness is always tolerated more than inconsistent fairness.
Lads, the French captain, past French players, a significant portion of the French public, Arsene Wenger and so on have all called for a replay today, yet this evening the FFF still said no, the game is up now im afraid.