Shaq Hislop

You feel vindicated in all your criticism of Morocco and whatever else you may need to.

Because if...

Morocco, as an organising host, can't be trusted with the small things like a goalkeeper keeping his towel.

How can they be trusted with the larger things?

I am fully with you on this.

Like anything else, your gloves function best when they're a little moist.

You don't want them too dry.

You don't want them too wet.

So every single goalkeeper takes a towel, regardless of the conditions.

I would take a towel until it would go with me when it was baking hot and dry because you use water to soak your gloves down, and then you pat them dry so they're just a little bit damp.

But that's a part of the game.

That's a part of the game.

How you have what seems to be officials, because they're in full suits, coming onto the pitch, going into the goal and taking a goalkeeper's towel.

And it's not a one-off.

Now, if it happens and there's some rogue official that does it against Nigeria in the semifinal, you say, well, the rogue official, he'll never be a part of what we do again.

But then it happens again in the final.

So now you can't excuse it.

You cannot be excused.

You're no party to this.

Added to which, as you saw, hordes of ball boys in official track suits running down a substitute goalkeeper because he's bringing a towel for Mendy.