Duff accuses FIFA of a conspiracy

AMONG the stories reaching Paris yesterday was one about a demonstration outside the French embassy in Dublin on Wednesday night and countless others of various calls to badger FIFA for a replay after the miscarriage of justice in Saint-Denis.

It wasn’t easy to decipher which was more unlikely to actually happen but the players themselves were left unaffected by such flights of fancy. Feelings of regrets rather than thoughts of reprieve were uppermost in their minds.

None more so than Damien Duff.