Hair of God in World Cup!

Editor’s note:
When Diego Maradona scored his Hand of God goal against England, there was a furore.
But when England cheats where are our commentators and experts?
Though the World Cup is in ful swing, not many is aware of the Hair of the God goal scored by England’s Peter Crouch.
Surprisingly I read about the Hair of God in New York Times’ World Cup blogs.
Now read the NYT piece.

The Hair of God
In case you haven't seen the evidence of Peter Crouch's flagrant, well, cheating as he scored England's first goal late in the 2-0 game against Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, here it is, thanks to German television.
And here too, though the ESPNannouncers don't notice it and attribute T&T defender Brent Sancho's inability to jump with Crouch to fatigue rather than to Crouch yanking down on his dreadlocks.
As Sancho said after the game: '''He was definitely pulling me back and definitely over my back. Then again, we're tiny Trinidad and Tobago. There's no way the referee is going to blow that whistle.''
After 20 years of complaining about the Hand of God goal, it now seems that England are guilty of something perhaps every bit as dishonest.And that isn't helping them with fans around the world, who have begun to perceive England as a boring team, and now one that is cynical as well.
Crouch was already coming in for plenty of stick from abroad, being called things like the "two-meter asparagus" as newspapers heaped opprobrium on the England team, but Crouch has begun to hear it from home too.Well, not exactly from home.
Most of the English papers have downplayed Crouch's dreadlock-pull of God. The Scottish papers certainly haven't, mind you, but only a handful of English papers have piped up to express their outrage at the national team having won a game in this manner - most notably The Telegraph, in which a writer called for a system of punishment for players caught postgame by video in the manner of Crouch.