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...touched the ball, but in a manner implying it was accidental - an assertion that compounded the sin because replays showed he actually touched it twice, the second time with a certainty that suggested it was deliberate. "I cannot speak, I am so angry," fumed Ireland's Italian coach, Giovanni Trapattoni, after the game. "All the European people saw we deserved to win or at least get to penalties. All I ask is for fair play," he said. (See the worst sporting cheats of all time...
...contrast to Trapattoni's righteous fury at being robbed, France's relief at making the finals was shot through with embarrassment and even shame. "The Hand of God" was the ironic headline in France's sports daily l'Equipe, a reference to the notorious hand punch Argentine striker Diego Maradona admitted he'd used to score the winning goal over England in a 1986 World Cup quarterfinal match. "Les Bleus: Hands Up," echoed Libération in its coverage of what it called France's "holdup" of the Irish team that had utterly dominated Wednesday's game prior to Henry...
...WORST COACH Italy's ultra-defensive Giovanni Trapattoni underestimated three opponents in a row?Croatia, Mexico and South Korea. Dishonorable Mention: Trap, again, winning the Sore Loser prize for cooking up a conspiracy theory to explain Italy's second-round exit...
...There should, for instance, be a system of fines and other penalties for losing coaches who accuse referees of incompetence, or worse. The most egregious example of this sort of scapegoating came last week, when Italy's Giovanni Trapattoni blamed Ecuadorean ref Byron Moreno for the Azzuri's inglorious defeat by South Korea. In addition to questioning Moreno's professional abilities, Trapattoni suggested obliquely that the official was ordered by FIFA to ensure a Korean victory so that one of the two host nations would remain in the tournament...
...Fabio Capello, but reserves special venom for Marcello Lippi, his tormentor at both Juventus and Inter Milan. Baggio claims Lippi tried to recruit him as a locker-room spy and then tried to destroy his career. Notably absent from this roll of dishonor is current Italy coach Giovanni ("Trap") Trapattoni, in whose hands rest Baggio's dreams of making his fourth World Cup. In a year at the helm, Trap hasn't tapped the veteran forward, but he hasn't ruled Baggio out of his plans for Korea/Japan. Either way, he could get a chapter of his own in Baggio...
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