FIFA: Take a leaf out of Rugby's book for football's sake....

An old mate of mine who I used to work with is from Ghana and although I haven't seen him for a couple of years I really felt for him last night. Watching the World Cup match against Uraguay convinced me that sometimes there is no justice. If you didn't catch the incident it went something like this: in the dying seconds of extra time the two teams were locked together at 1-1 then, after a goal mouth scramble, a Ghana player headed the ball and Suarez, the Uraguay number 9, blocked the ball on the line, saving the goal and his country's certain exit from the tourrnament. Nothing wrong with that? Well I did leave out the fact that he blantantly used his hand to stop the ball, thus resulting in his own instant sending off and a penalty for Ghana which, as it turned out, was the very last kick of extra time. High drama, very entertaining, gripping even, yes to all of these. Then the penalty and Gyan, having played out of his skin in all their matches, having become the hero of all Africa and beyond, misses the penalty handing Uraguay a reprieve which they took full advantage of in the penalty shoot out and thus progressed to the semi finals. I ask you Roland, for that is my Ghanaian friend's name, where's the justice in this? I really am gutted for you. How can the rules allow for such obvious and open cheating to prosper? You can't blame the ref for he interpreted the law to the letter and could do no more than send Suarez off. What should be done then? Well all I'll say is that, if it had happened in a rugby match, where it is usually harder to interpret what may have happened had the cheating not occurred, then a try would have been awarded anyway and Ghana would have been playing Holland in the semis, Suarez would be a disgraced cheat instead of a national hero and rightly so. If FIFA had anything about them they'd reverse the outcome of that match, allow Ghana through and ban Uraguay from the next World Cup, now that would be justice. Come on Holland make sure you beat them now for Africa's and football's sake....