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Published 12:26 6 Jun 2015 BST
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'As a player at the time, and I'm back to being a fan now, it doesn’t sit well for me. In either camp,' he continued. 'If you are asking me, personally, if I would have taken a penny from them, absolutely not.
“Do I blame them from going and try to undo the injustice we suffered that night, no absolutely not. But to take the money off them, for me personally, was wrong.'
Meanwhile, and with thanks to JOE.ie for spotting the story in La Stampa, Giovanni Trapattoni, who was Ireland manager in 2009 when France beat us in Paris, has spoken about the FIFA fiasco.
'I remember every moment of those seconds in Paris and, above all, the laugh of the assistant of the referee Hansson made in front of me,' said Trapattoni.
He also recounts a meeting with then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who apparently told him:
'Meet me, we can find together a way out, a way to forget.''I do not know what he wanted,' Trapattoni added. 'I just know that when he gave me his hand, I did not give mine because I do not have two faces.'

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