Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Football Thoughts

A new, and I suspect recurring, feature: Football Fool of the Week.

The nominees:

The entire FAI (Football Association of Ireland), still feeling sorry for themselves following their one-one draw against France in the FIFA World Cup play-off match, asked FIFA to allow them to enter next years World Cup as an additional (33rd) team (more thoughts on this to follow). The idea is so laughable that even FIFA President Sepp Blatter couldn't resist a chuckle - this from a man who suggested womens football could be improved by the players wearing tighter shorts.



Real Madrid-biased journalist Tomás Roncero for complaining in AS newspaper that the referee in Sundays Barcelona v Real Madrid match allowed Zlatan Ibrahimovic's winning goal despite the player being, and I quote, "nearly offside":



No, it's impossible, I can't choose.

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