THE Dutch media are clamouring for FIFA to act on an issue that could potentially see the history of the World Cup rewritten.

Curiously an extradition hearing in South America – which is nothing really to do with football – has this week re-ignited claims that Argentina’s 1978 World Cup win on home soil was ‘fixed’.

This is hardly an earth-shattering revelation as there were many who felt at the time that the second phase group game that saw the hosts beat Peru 6-0 to book their meeting in the final with Holland in Buenos Aires’ Estadio Monumental – which they duly won 3-1 – was way past merely dodgy.

In fact it would be hard to find anyone who was not Argentine who wasn’t struck by the fact that Peru, who had been impressive throughout the tournament, played like they had been on the ale for fully 48 hours before the game which allowed César Luis Menotti’s team, who needed to win by four clear goals to deny arch rivals Brazil a place in the final, to saunter through.

What is fresh is that the recent revelations have gone as far as to implicate then Argentine dictator General Videla’s hand in having 13 Peruvian dissidents vanish and that the recompense came on the football field at the Estadio Rosario.

Interesting stuff, but far more intriguing is just what the Dutch media think they are going to achieve by asking FIFA to look into all this.