“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

- Britain’s wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill

COMMENT | It has been suggested that the damage done by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) through the foreign players’ scandal must be forgotten.

Also to be over and done with is the disgraceful course of events that brought reputational loss to the government and the people of Malaysia.

FAM honorary president, Hamidin Amin, wants Malaysians to forget the damage inflicted by FAM and the disgraceful course of events that dragged the nation’s name and reputation through the mud - to be erased from memory.

He wants the sanctions and financial penalties imposed by the International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) to be overlooked, or perhaps scrubbed from the record altogether.

But history is not so easily forgotten or rewritten. Last October, Fifa’s investigations found that FAM had submitted falsified documents to...