Posted July 03, 2010

Yes, it's not always the best team that wins. But you can win fair and square or in a cheesey way. For me, Uruguai took the second.
First of all keep in mind that every single player tries to 'cheat' at one point or another in every match. They play the ball with their hands, they try to score goals with their hands, they grab each other, they send opponents to the ground, they fall to the ground on their own (meaning they 'act'), etc, etc.
All players have these illegal moves at their disposal and they use them. When they get caught and punished accordingly it doesn't make those moves any less 'ugly' to watch but it does mean that the outcome of the match is being settled according to the rules everybody agreed on, and that's all anybody can ask in terms of fairness.
Suarez' move, is a last resort that every player in every team has at their disposal, and i bet most, if not all, would've done the same. The fact that the red card he got ended up coming across to some as not really a punishment, since the game was endidng anyway, is purely incidental and hardly Suarez' or Uruguai's fault. Had he done it 5 minutes in and Uruguai would have played an entire match with 10 and this wouldn't even be an issue. Had Ghana not failed at a crucial stage in the match and this wouldn't even be an issue. Basically you're punishing Uruguai's team for something purely incidental and for Ghana's failure.
I really can't see how anyone can question the merit or fairness of Uruguai's win. People (or teams) who win on their own merit, playing by the rules, without 'aid', deserve to be congratulated, or at least they do in my book.