LONDON (Reuters) - National teams and others must stop cheating and new regulations will be drawn up to regulate team cheating, UEFA president Michael Platini said Today.
In an explosive press release Platini has said a UEFA committee would meet next week to begin devising new rules to protect the welfare of World Soccer.
āThe World Cup is months away and we have to regulate the situation,ā he said. āThe idea is not to kill the game but to help them have better balance. The philosophy to participate in our competitions is you must not move outside the rules on purposeā
āWe will discuss the French/Irish situation in our meeting next week and I will also be making a personal representation to Mr Blatter, in the interests of fair play. I would not rule anything outā
Would be some craic if they let Ireland into the World Cup on the basis of fair play, or let us play off against one of the African or Asian teams, all in the interests of fair play of course.
Who exactly made the decision to seed the playoffs? What happened last night was rough but it does happen. The organising body changing the rules mid-stream to help the stronger sides is the real disgrace. Given what Platini has stood for in the past Iād have expected him to be outraged at that decision above all else.
By the statement he made saying that the France / ireland situation will be discussed at a meeting ānext weekā he is in fact hoping that all the emotion surrounding this current situation will subside.
Id also bet that next weekās meeting will be āpostponedā for another 4-5 days where then a statement will be published outlining FIFAās committment to fair play with a few corrective action items like increased bans, etcā¦
i wouldnt rule out an official apology from Thierry H also.
This then will be the last we will ever hear of this quibble ( that is all it is in FIFAās eyes).
Having a meeting ānext weekā is a classic move in a situation like this, Platini may be a spineless cunt but he is also a smart one, His goal has been achieved, France are in the WC, his next move now is to show he is committed to fair play, he will do that in his own unconvincing way and football will continueā¦
Me too, but Mickee wrote a missive on it and I stopped around the 2nd line when he seemed to be taking the statement as fact. I doubt I would have made it much further regardless.
Thatās the really unfair thing about it. The groups were already seeded to begin with so the bigger/better nations already had the advantage of avoiding each other from this perspective. To go and use seeding a second time wasnāt very equitable*.
I already used āfairā in my first sentence and didnāt want to include it again.
Fook those poor loser countries.
