Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The world football federation’s (Fifa) disciplinary committee is holding a hearing Monday 18 January to consider Thierry Henry ‘s famous handball that gave France rather than Ireland a place in the World Cup. The executive committee of Fifa in December asked the disciplinary body to review the incident that caused an uproar and prompted the Football Association of Ireland to demand a replay or even to consider adding Ireland as a 33rd team.

The widespread expectation is that Henry might be given a warning or a fine, rather than a ban.

Fifa, meanwhile, announced 15 January that it will be add a new ticket sales feature to its system for the World Cup matches: tickets allocated to one of the participating teams that have not been sold will be made available to opposing teams who have received more requests from their fans than tickets allocated in that period.

Links to other sites: Fifa, Irish Times, Sky News

Posted by Ellen Wallace on 18 January 2010 at 9:40 | permalink
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  1. raaaabert Says:
    January 18th, 2010 at 11:40 am

    Ban the cheat from all WC games. His single action put an entire country out of the Cup, its the least they could do.

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