Football FanCast columnist Greg Symonds is disgusted at FIFA's failure to act over Manchester United's complaint and feels that clubs will now look to take full advantage.

I doubt there were many people in the football fraternity who blinked an eyelid when Real Madrid came out and touted the services of Cristiano Ronaldo. Such has become the regularity of this underhand practice; you can be forgiven in thinking that the game has finally lost all its decency and respect it once possessed.

It has become a joke and how it gets continually condoned drives me up the wall. How FIFA fail to see any breach of contract has been undertaken is disgusting in all honesty. What kind of message has this sent out? Apparently it is okay to publicly show an interest in a player, turn his head and then let it subsequently engineer a likely transfer - it's a disgrace and you now feel that the one time this whole practice could have been nipped in the bud and some sanity brought back to a game, has now finally passed.

I'm an Aston Villa fan and a disgruntled one at that, so many will dismiss me as a sour grape merchant and only piping up in light of the Gareth Barry affair. This couldn't be further from the truth and I truly believe that supporters are being blinkered with regards to the repercussions of FIFA's blind eye. If the world's governing body don't see a problem with public courting, then why should other football clubs worry now about tapping up players?

The despicable way that Rafa Benitez has gone about his business is the perfect example of what will become a common occurrence in football from now on in. Clubs that operate with respect and class will now find themselves lowering themselves to that level in order to bring in their desired players. Why get rebuffed by a football club in making an offer, when you can just make your interest public? Why go through all that hassle when you can let the unsettled player engineer the move from within? It is a grave shame the FA doesn't set a precedent in this country and penalise Liverpool in some way.

I guess this summer the Villa, along with Arsenal and Manchester United has had our hands burnt and I'm sure we won't be the last. With tapping or publicly expressing an interest is now passed as fair game, then I'm sure others will be happily following suit. It is not right or fair, but do we expect anything different from the game that is has continually been allowed to sink slowly into the mire.

Grp C France vs. Italy. 19:45

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