I just think that last nights game as just highlighted whats been going on in football for years.Was Henry's handball any worse than the countless times players dive in the box to claim a penatly,cheating is cheating regardless of the player doing it.How many times in a game do you see players pull each others shirts in the area when there's a corner or free kick,it's all cheating.
I would seriously award the game to the opposing team if there was conclusive proof that the player tried to decieve the referee or change the outcome of a game through cheating.I don't just blame Henry,theres a list of players as long as your arm who have won games through cheating,it was just further enhanced by the importance of last nights game.
And the argument that Ireland did not deserve to go through because of there performances in the qualifying games is absolute rubbish,they got there on there past results.You could argue all night about it,but last nights incident as no bearing on past games.But it's about time the authorties sorted out this problem once and for all.I'm not sure how to achieve this,maybe technology is the answer.