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Whichever way you look at it, this is a crap decision.
Even if you ignore the complete irrelevance of banning a retired guy, FIFA’s dug one hell of a hole for itself with the Materazzi banning.
Where in its rules does it say you’re not allowed to sledge? I can’t think of any time in any sport where someone’s been banned for saying naughty things.
What they’re effectively saying is that sledging that results in retaliation (especially by a famous player) will be punished. Now that’s one really f**ked up precedent to set.
And the clandestine nature of the whole enquiry hasn’t helped either. 2 weeks for saying what? An Invisible Benchmark. What now makes a 4 week ban?
Very amateur admin FIFA.
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