If he's not eligible then how the fudge did we run a world cup campaign, at home particularly without having cleared players?
Imagine if the host team was expelled from their own world cup!
The key difference between the two situations appears to be the people involved i.e. someone within Vanuatu or the OFC wanted us out, and either that person/nation was not present at the U20 world cup to be able to do it, or their personal mandate could not be achieved by tipping off another country at that point.
Suggests it was deliberate and calculated this time round.
However, it still comes back to NZF and their poor administration in getting this wrong and enabling this to happen.