Posts by Sacha
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Does every act of foul play become an act of deliberate cheating, and automatic red card offense?
Who's saying that? Deliberately preventing a goal that would have changed the result of a World Cup match seems pretty severe to me - so the result should surely be more severe than a run of the mill foul. But then maybe I don't sufficiently appreciate the charm or "beauty" of dishonest play by cynical scumbags.
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Aint karma a bitch - Maradona gets the finger of god.
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The foul/cheating act, blatant as it was, was handled by the ref in the manner which the rule book says, the same rule book that everyone plays by.
So change the rules.
But the onfield act was dealt with in the only way possible.
Wrong.
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It's the sheer bad faith of the move that offends me most. Not sporting, so why should the response be? Imagine trying to be a hero of the streets back home if you'd just cost your team the game or the tournament.
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I think you'll find that nobody in the football press is going to call Suarez a cheat. And maybe that means that there's something wrong with football. But maybe it means that it's part of the code that the sport lives by.
What a disgustingly corrupt endeavour, then, that you seem so accepting of.
Deliberately and calculatedly infringing in that situation ought to result in the harshest penalty against the team as well as the player. In my book, forfeit the game on the spot, ban the little shit for the rest of the tournament (not one game) and fine the team's management for good measure. If you wanted to go further, forfeit the rest of the tournament.
Ghanains have every right to be furious with Sebb Blatter and the other ethically relaxed elderly gents who set the sport's standards. Spectators - especially children - need to see that such behaviour in life and on the field is not OK; not some laddish bending of the rules to be forgiven with a rueful grin or a slap on the back (or bottom if you're Argentinian). Far from "heroic" unless there's some wrinkle of Latin culture that makes cheating manly somehow.
Nothing in particular against football. I'd like to see the same in rugby and any other sport where the whole of a tournament can turn on that sort of morally bankrupt behaviour.
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That's how you might choose a CEO. But people vote for the post of mayor. That's how it works.
Mouthy employers and fellow travellers like Rodney Hide have consistently failed to understand the difference between operational services and civic democracy when it comes to the public sector.
Perhaps their fundamental ignorance might help explain this country's poor record of corporate governance, weak leadership and low productivity?
Rather than that workers are stupid and overpaid or there's too much red tape and tax stifling profits.
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if The Herald polled Maori/PI or Asian voters, the results wouldn't necessarily be the same as "the general public"
But they don't run that biased sample as their editorial angle, do they? That's the point.
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Wouldn't bother. It's the same crazed magical thinking that has pervaded official business dogma for the last few decades.
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Maybe my standards of what's reasonable have been eroded? #heraldsucceeds
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Having said that, Geoff Cumming has a reasonably even-handed summary about where it all leaves Brown (other than claims that the unfavourable publicity is all just coincidental).