Thierry Henry Handball Video

Thierry Henry Handball Video : Deliberate handball – when it’s not being done to check for testicular lumps – is the most odious form of cheating.
Forget dives, clutching your face after a tap on the leg, deliberate time wasting or swarming around the referee in a bid to get an opponent sent off.
Using your hands in the beautiful game [unless you are the keeper obviously] contravenes even the Geneva Convention – it’s cheating
Years ago when coaching an under-7 football team, my players were startled when an opponent jumped up to catch the ball then volleyed it into the net – only for the ref to give the goal ‘as they’re just kids’.
Even at that age they felt the injustice of a hand to ball scenario, even at that age they crowded the ref, even at that age were they in tears at such a poor decision.
but apart from the draw meaning we finished third in a group of six rather than second, there was little riding on it.
Unlike a World Cup play-off when you are one of the best players in the world and you manhandle the orb not once but twice in the build-up to a goal that puts your side through to the biggest show on earth and plunges another nation into despair.
The luck of the Irish really ran out when Thierry Henry’s sleight of hand fooled the match officials to guide France to the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa.
The captain even admitted he had done it but that it was down to the ref – Martin Hansson - to disallow the subsequent William Gallas goal not him to beg for it to be wiped out.
Henry’s actions – slammed even by his own country’s media - have again renewed calls for video referees at football matches and have created the biggest talking point since THAT goal from Diego Maradona in 1986.
Grown men who felt the injustice of a hand to ball scenario, grown men who crowded the ref, grown men who were in tears at such a poor decision.
So as Henry & Co prepare for World Cup glory and Robbie Keane & Co prepare for World Cup punditry, Sportsmail recalls some of the most controversialhandball moments in football.
Diego Maradona, Argentina v England 1986
The little master fooled everyone except Peter Shilton when he ‘outjumped’ the big keeper and pushed the ball subtly over his head. The ‘Hand of God’ was born and christened moments later when he beat the entire team and most of the crowd to score possibly the greatest goal ever.
Lionel Messi, Barcelona v Espanyol 2007
With Barca trailing to their less-than-fashionable city rivals, Argentinian Messi (there’s a theme developing here) launched at a cross from Gianluca Zambrotta to slap the ball into the net to equalise. His side went on to winthe match.
Thierry Henry Handball Video