>>>>>People like Maradona set examples. Unfortunately his example was that its ok to profit by cheating. He knew it there was no grey area of doubt..I'd like him to reap what he sowed.
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>>>>I would say he has more than paid for one shady goal, wouldn't you?
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>>>It's not what HE paid for that goal, but what WE did - being knocked out of the WC unnecessarily. Seems England always goes out on a dodgy call, such as hand-ball goal, or an England player being judged offside when the stripes in the grass prove otherwise, etc.
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>>OK, that's fair enough. But there's no guarantee England would have won the match if the goal had been disallowed, is there?
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>Of course not - but allowing the goal helped to ensure that Argentina did!
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>It gave them a 1 goal advantage. AND I think the hand-ball in those circumstances is a sending-off offence. Ergo they would have been a man down and HE wouldn't have scored again.

It is not a sending-off offense. Oddly enough, it IS a sending-off offense for a defender to deliberately handle the ball to prevent an obvious goal scoring opportunity.