thegoodjoehunt: Diego Maradona is right here. Matuidi went to destroy Onazi's leg. His tackle caused more harm. But, every one is quiet. He is African. If Mikel had done this to Benzema, he would have seen a red card.

FIFA has displayed how corrupt they are. Same goes to the English press.

Feed me more:

Couldn't have said it better.

There's a clear bias when it comes to dishing out punishment to certain players, i see a pattern where European teams get light punishment for offense that will cost other continent players (Africa and South America) a sledge hammer punishment. This is just not right.

Matuidi should have been send off for that dangerous challenge on Onazi. Arjern Roben should have been given a retrospective punishment for diving to win a penalty against Mexico. But as usual FIFA will look the other way when the players happens to be from a certain continent.

Shame on Platini.
Shame on Sepp Blatter.
Shame on FIFA.

papa_nnamdi: *eating hot okpa with soft agege bread*
*looks at thread and shakes head*
*carries chair outside thread to collect breeze*

papa_nnamdi: *eating hot okpa with soft agege bread*
*looks at thread and shakes head*
*carries chair outside thread to collect breeze*

papa_nnamdi: *eating hot okpa with soft agege bread*
*looks at thread and shakes head*
*carries chair outside thread to collect breeze*

Mad Cow: [s]O well.. Too late to cry over spilt milk.[/s]

shymexx: In as much as the punishment dished out to Suarez was unfair, and inappropriate - I believe it had more to do with his antecedents, and his inability to curb it. And the loutishness of the British and Italian media. As for Matuidi, hopefully, FIFA would do something about it.

As for the pathetic conspiracy theorists, this has absolutely nothing to do with Europeans being favoured. I bet when Brazil was favoured by the refs against the Croats, that also had something to do with European conspiracy, no? When two clear goals scored by Mexico, against Cameroon, were disallowed by the refs, that also had something to do with European conspiracy, no? When a clean goal scored by Bosnia was disallowed against Nigeria, that also had to do with European conspiracy, no?

Let real football fans enjoy the beautiful round leather game, and the best world cup ever, without soiling it with unnecessary tears.

Truckpusher: The most painful part of the whole thing was the attitude of Keshi and the other players when the incident happened.They all stayed put as if it was a choir practice,I can bet you guys that if the players had rushed on Matuidi without any body contact whilst calling on the referee to do the needful and Keshi doing the same to the linesman, the outcome would have been different......but they all stayed put like it was normal ,after all in serious games of that nature anything can be used to disorganize your opponent.

Guykhena: Sorry Maradona nothing is more worse than vampirism.........

jude33084:

How do you view Matuidi's action as a footballer? Should FIFA turn a blind eye to it?