Fair play, my foot. FIFA is happy to have a con artist like Henry in finals

RUGBY fans should well remember what Neil Back did to Munster in 2002. It was the closing minutes of the Heineken Cup final between the Irish team and his side, Leicester. The English side is winning by 15 points to 9, but Munster have a scrum in front of the Leicester posts, in a perfect position to launch a final assault on the Leicester line, to score a try that would have left Munster with a conversion to win the cup.

As Peter Stringer went to put the ball into the scrum, wing-forward Back put up his hand quickly and knocked the ball out of Stringer’s hands and into the Leicester side of the scrum. The referee, on the other side of the scrum, did not see it and the touch judge on the correct side did not see it either. Munster lost possession and the last chance to rescue the game.

Back had cheated and gotten away with it. Leicester won.