The Irish keep on whining

Latest news say that the Irish FA have sent a request to FIFA wanting an extra spot at the World Cup finals, thanks to their inability to get past France.

FIFA's president Sepp Blatter has promised to bring that subject to the attention of the executive committee meeting on Wednesday.

Also goal-line technology and extra referees will be a topics, amongst others. Some change is no doubt coming regarding this as Blatter said: "It's possible we will make additional officials for the World Cup but we have to see if it is feasible or realistic. Something has to be done in terms of match control."

Regarding the Irish whine, Blatter brought to attention, that Costa Rica also feel that they missed out on the World Cup 2010, after Uruguay scored a goal from a offside position. Now why don't we see the Costa Ricans complaining about it? More dignity maybe? Fact is Ireland had a chance to put the game to bed far before the Henry handball incident, but they didn't do it. Simple as that. It's football. And while still the stagnated system exists with 3 referees, there's no reason to keep on moaning weeks after an incident has happened, as these decisions happen week in week out in World football.

That extra referees idea would be a great thing. It's been tested in youth tournament and in the UEFA Europa League and with success I think. I follow the Europa League quite closely and I think this season there hasn't been any bad decisions made that have cost a team points. At least nothing so big that would made the headlines as a "shocker".

And don't get me wrong. That momentary blindness by the officials in the France - Ireland match, was also a shocker, but it's two weeks now since it happened and these Irish FA's actions are starting to look really lame. Just get over it!