At the end of the game the journalists (Irish and Scottish) were saying that they would have done the same, that if you are a professional footballer that's what you do.

That is probably true but then, I don't want to ever hear again that sportsmen are role models.
Although, maybe the point is that it's precisely the kind of behaviour that is encouraged in today's world. But that makes me sick.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi