DID anybody else delight in watching Uruguay throw the toys out of the pram after they had been dumped out of the World Cup by Holland last night?

Oh, it was pure gold. I sat there chuckling to myself, revelling in the hilariously delicious irony of it all.

There they were, the poor Uruguayans, gesticulating furiously in protest at the officials' decision not to award a penalty for a supposed handball in the dying embers of the game, while trailing 3-2.

Magnificent. The footballing Gods had outdone themselves here.

For, of course, the very reason the South Americans had reached that stage of the planet's greatest tournament was because of...a handball!

In perhaps the most controversial moment - with the probable exception of Frank Lampard's phantom goal for England against Germany in the last 16 – of the World Cup, Luis Suarez did his best David Seaman impression on the goal-line to deny Ghana a well-deserved winner in the final seconds of their quarter-final clash, before dancing up and down in delight in the dugout – having been sent off – when poor Asamoah Gyan blasted his spot-kick against the bar. With the match delicately poised at 1-1, a goal would have sent the Africans through. But the miss led to the lottery of a penalty shoot-out which, inevitably, Uruguay won.

Cue mass celebrations, with the players hoisting Suarez aloft and hailing him as a hero. Coach Oscar Tabarez praised the Ajax striker and Suarez himself ludicrously came out to proclaim that it was he who now possesses the title; 'Hand of God'.

What a joke.

Let's clear this up, shall we?

Firstly, there are those observers that have argued that Suarez was not cheating, that he didn't try to con the referee into believing he did not handle the ball. These people need their heads examined. Then they need to take another long, hard look at the replay of the incident. After doing his best impression of a volleyball spike, Suarez desperately thrusts his head forward in a hilarious attempt to kid the referee into thinking he had nodded the ball away, with his arms used as little more than propellers to push him forward. So he was certainly trying to get away with it.

Funnily enough, however, it is not the act of handling the ball, or indeed palming it away, that angers me. I genuinely believe that most players in Suarez's position would have done the same thing. It is, after all, an instinctive reaction.

Ghana's John Pantsil claims nobody from the Ghana team would have dared do such a thing. But when a place at the World Cup semi-finals is at stake, can he really be so sure?

No, it is the striker's unadulterated joyous jig upon seeing Gyan strike the bar and his subsequent comments after the event that really gets my blood boiling.

The remarkable lack of humility shown by the entire team after the event was frankly shocking and they should be ashamed.

What this incident should do, as Lampard's goal-that-never-was seems likely to achieve, is prompt a change in the laws of the game.

If we are going by the rulebook, the referee during the game was spot on; send off Suarez and award a penalty. Only the award of a penalty in the dying moments of a World Cup last-eight clash to send your country through to their first ever semi-final is not quite the same as one where your team is 3-0 up and cruising, or in the early part of the match, or in any other competition for that matter.

The pressure can become too much for players charged with the responsibility of such a moment, as Gyan will attest to. For that reason I believe, for misdemeanours such as Suarez's, there should be penalty goals, as seen in rugby.

The fact is, the ball was going to cross the line had the player not illegally intervened, so send the player off and award the goal. It's the only fair solution.

Thanks to Suarez, Gyan will remember an otherwise brilliant personal and collective World Cup performance for all the wrong reasons.

And that is why I chuckle still as Uruguay try to gear themselves up for a meaningless, pointless third-place play-off match against the loser of Spain versus Germany.

Justice has been served. And Suarez will get his comeuppance. The football Gods will see to that.