COMMENT | Last night’s dismissal of the Football Association of Malaysia’s (FAM) appeal to Fifa’s Appeals Committee was not earth-shattering news.

It was not a David vs Goliath epic. It was a low-key bout; stupidity vs common sense, prompting a not-much-deliberated, inconspicuous decision.

Could one person be born at two different places 20,000km apart? Could two birth certificates be issued for the same birth - in Spanish in Santa Fe, Argentina, and in Malay in Johor Bahru, Malaysia?

Yet, they were - one was original, based on historical documents dating about 100 years ago, while the other was “created” more recently, this year.

No. These are not recreations of scenes from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, where Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Robin Hood, et al, who fought evil against all odds to come out looking good.

Anything coming close would be the Pied Piper who carried away the loot, aptly summing up the role of the intermediary who collected his agents’ fees and rode away into the sunset.