Thierry Henry' handball punisment

United States
December 24, 2009 6:51pm CST
This about Thierry Henry.... According a news in French L'Equipe no disciplinary action will be take by FIFA ruling committe following Henry's handball that led to Gallas' goal wich tied up the game 1-1 and gave the French side a 2-1 aggregate advantage. Is this FAIR?
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
25 Dec 09
The only penalty I know for a handball in football is a yellow card. That penalty can be given by the referee during the match. There are other suspension penalties given after viewing the game tape, but only as severe disciplinary penalties. I think it would be more than unfair to punish Henry for that handball - it's not his fault the referee is a total moron or wanted to support France... I think they should think of ways of punishing the referee, not Henry. I supported Ireland too, France is a mere shadow of the team they used to be, since they have a puppet of a coach, but that doesn't keep me from being fair... Or at least I think I'm being fair...
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
26 Dec 09
I don't know about that... He took the chance of being booked for the handball, but considered the risk was worth taking and he was right... Maradona scored a goal with "The Hand of God", a fabulous goal,but I don't remember of him being fined for that...
• United States
26 Dec 09
may be you are right, i hope in the next Henry will not do the same action
@ram_cv (16513)
• India
25 Dec 09
It would be really bad if FIFA let's Henry go scot-free. I think the problem with FIFA is it's own motive to ensure that all the best players and teams as per them make it to the World Cup!! It is both sad and unfair on other upcoming teams. I think Henry should be banned from the whole world cup, because then that would act as a deterrent against future frauds of this nature by sports person!! Cheers! Ram
• India
3 Jan 10
well, i don't think henry should be banned for this one. good and bad decision are part and parcel for the player. what do u expect from henry, to raise his hand and say i dint handball and stop the play. which is not possible. henrry was undone many time during his stay at arsenal. he lost fa cup final bcos of wrong decision, did the player who committed that sin was banned from football. i dont think so, as player u have to take decisions as they came. it will not be in the players hand to decide in that split movement. if there is any one to be blamed then that would be fifa for not using technology in football. if they had used, then this situation would not have arrived. i think henry was fair enough to agree that he made a handball and wanted a rematch, even though fifa denied it before.
@ram_cv (16513)
• India
3 Jan 10
Actually you are right to some extent Ananth. But it depends on when you want to do your moment of madness. If it is the world cup final and that madness or cheating wins you the World Cup, aka Diego Maradona, you probably might get away with it. But, when you are at the end of a fantastic career and then you do that and that is going to be the lasting memory of your career and does not really win the country anything per se just yet. I think that is where Henry probably has gone wrong from a personal perspective matter. Cheers! Ram
@emmanola (482)
26 Dec 09
Absolutely, it is fair. I feel that Henry has suffered more than enough for this so-called "handball" offence. I do not justify his action, but tried to put myself in Henry shoes and felt that he used his hand to control the ball involuntarily, almost every person (in Henry's and France's situation) would have done the same thing. I feel if the match officials had seeing that he handled the ball and gave him a yellow card and denied the goal scored by France, Henry wouldn't have complained. The match officials are human. Any talk of "real" punishment for Henry or France will ridicule not only the match officials, but the entire game of football. The damage is already done and I strongly feel that we should let the sleeping dog lie. Enough is enough, leave Henry and France alone.
• United States
26 Dec 09
the message from all about these.. everything can do in football game as long as the referee can't see, isn't?
• India
3 Jan 10
In my view, this one is absolutely fair, i don't think henry should be fined or suspended for this. if there is anyone to be punished, then that would be ref. after seeing the replay,i felt like, henry dint do it intentionally. moreover for a player good and bad decision are part and parcel. for that matter henry was undone many time and got luck many time during his stay at arsenal. player has to accept the fact that, he has to go with his luck. if the player make's a hand ball intentionally then action needs to be take, but i don't fell that henry has done it intentionally. but i fell sorry for Ireland. no matter how well u play, u need a bit of luck too... Ireland dint have it on that day.....i wish ki fifa bring in replay system or penalizing ref for the bad decisions. penalizing ref will keep more pressure on ref to delivery, but something has to be done to stop...i hope fifa looks into it more seriously........
• India
1 Jan 10
Obviously its fair. Why is everyone so stuck to this matter. It was a world cup qualifying match.... lots of pressure and rush. He did a hand ball and then passed the ball and gallas scored. Anyways France is better team and if henry hadn't commited the hand ball and gallas wouldn't have scored the match would have gone to penalty shootouts and there were 80% chances that france would have won. Now would the fifa 2010 world cup would have been complete without france. No france meant..... no ribery no benzema no henry ...in the world cup... World cup would have been boring. And Henry apologised and as the captain of french team... requested a rematch but fifa denied. What can he do now... hang himself from Eiffel tower..... get a life..
• India
28 Dec 09
i personally feel that henry's hand ball was an unfair act and a shame to France football. FIFA should have let this incident go so easily as it took out Ireland from their world cup place.. Henry should have been banned from playing his world cup and FIFA must take these kind of incidents little seriously...
• Hyderabad, India
28 Dec 09
Dude, this is football and nothing fair here. Wasn't it expected that Henry would get away with the handball incident. The fact that FIFA came up with play-off system in the last moment shows that they favoured France and Portugal to go through. France at the world cup will mean more eye balls and hence more revenue. Also, if they'd punished Henry for the handball, they would have to do it with other offenders as well. Not a practical solution at all considering the amount of cheating that goes on in modern day football. It is impossible to punish every offerder as they will start getting complaints from all leagues all over the owrld everyday. Such incidents have occured in the past and will keep occuring until technology is employed or referees start doing a better job.