Sportsmanship

Thierry Henry lost a golden opportunity to show the world that in addition to being a great ball player, he was also a great sportsman.

It is understandable that in the heat of the moment one will make a silly mistake such as Henry did, but there is then no excuse for failing to rethink ones action after the mad moment has passed.

After the "heat of the moment" event, Henry surely would have considered the fact that dozens of TV cameras and still cameras had captured the moment and just like all goals scored would have been played repeatedly over and over again, in slow motion, and zoomed.

He also lost a never to be repeated opportunity to become a truly great role model for those youths of African descent and for the African communities who don't usually get a good press. But then he's probably just a normal human being after all and not the superhuman being his exceptional footballing skills falsely make him out to be.

Regretfully the moment has now passed and is unlikely to come again soon and African people and of African descent will still languish in a negative light.