WORLD CUP USA '94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : NO APOLOGY

By HELENE ELLIOTT

July 2, 1994 12 AM PT

Ireland Coach Jack Charlton, who was suspended from his team’s game against Norway because of “ungentlemanly conduct” in the previous game, is still unapologetic over his actions.

“I still don’t know what I did,” said Charlton, who grabbed the coat lapels of a FIFA official who tried to prevent him from sending two substitutes onto the field before the official recorded their arrivals. “But rules are rules. There are so many, you don’t know which ones you’re breaking.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FIRST ROUND : SPOTLIGHT : NO APOLOGY

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