[ad_pod ]Leeds United and Marcelo Bielsa winning the FIFA fair play award is a funny one, isn’t it?If you went out on a Friday night and drunkenly destroyed someone’s garden gnome collection, you wouldn’t then expect an award from them for returning the next day with either a new collection of little pointy hatted men or a badly glued set of the obliterated old guard.Watch Leeds United Live Streams With StreamFootball.tv Below
We say this because Leeds and Bielsa have essentially been awarded for righting their own wrong.
Although there’s nothing in the laws of football that decrees you should kick the ball out of play if an opposing player, in this case Jonathan Kodjia, hits the deck writhing in pain, you’d certainly be on the wrong end of a serious finger wag if you didn’t ‘do the right thing’.
In this case, that was allowing Albert Adomah to waltz through relatively unchallenged (minus some protest from Pontus Jansson) and score. In the end, Leeds didn’t get their promotion party, which isn’t ideal, but the award will go some way towards easing the pain.
Then there’s the small accompanying detail of Spygate. You know, when Bielsa admitted that he had spied on every opponent last season by essentially sending a member of staff with a pair of binoculars to conduct shrubbery-based surveillance.
Regardless of this all, owner Andrea Radrizzani was full of pride when he responded to the club’s achievement on Twitter…
