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by **Dundalk** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:41 pm

john craig wrote:How Thierry Henry can come out and blame the official for allowing it is absolutely disgusting. He cheats and then blames the ref for not spotting it... well done.

NAIL. ON .HEAD.

by **Big Niall** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:50 pm

nobody here think Ireland are a great team. But isn't sport about "on the day" . Ireland at the very least matched a much better French team over TWO games but FIFA don't want us in the world cup so fukked us over.

I am really beginning on thinking of just giving up watching football. I don't watch Microsoft squashing some small start up company so why watch this?

The Mc World cup is coming up next year.

by **Fowler_E7** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:26 am

cant beleive how much flak Henry is getting for this, he handballed it and the official missed it. Its up to the ref and the linesman to spot the offence, whats Henry supposed to do? run over and say he handballed it dont give the goal! Ireland got robbed by a terrible decesion by the referee, people are blaming Henry like he did a Maradonna, it was an instinctive move what he did last night, its not like he punched it in the net.

by **made in UK** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:53 am

Fowler_E7 wrote:cant beleive how much flak Henry is getting for this, he handballed it and the official missed it. Its up to the ref and the linesman to spot the offence, whats Henry supposed to do? run over and say he handballed it dont give the goal! Ireland got robbed by a terrible decesion by the referee, people are blaming Henry like he did a Maradonna, it was an instinctive move what he did last night, its not like he punched it in the net.

You're name sake pleaded against a penalty he was awarded at Highbury once.

by **Dazzer** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:59 am

Fowler_E7 wrote:cant beleive how much flak Henry is getting for this, he handballed it and the official missed it. Its up to the ref and the linesman to spot the offence, whats Henry supposed to do? run over and say he handballed it dont give the goal! Ireland got robbed by a terrible decesion by the referee, people are blaming Henry like he did a Maradonna, it was an instinctive move what he did last night, its not like he punched it in the net.

OMG

by **JoeTerp** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:34 am

Dundalk wrote:Luck of the Irish my ar$e

A deflected goal in the first leg and a cheat goal in the second leg

Yeah some luck that is

link

by **bunglemark2** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:28 am

Fowler_E7 wrote:cant beleive how much flak Henry is getting for this, he handballed it and the official missed it. Its up to the ref and the linesman to spot the offence, whats Henry supposed to do? run over and say he handballed it dont give the goal! Ireland got robbed by a terrible decesion by the referee, people are blaming Henry like he did a Maradonna, it was an instinctive move what he did last night, its not like he punched it in the net.

Thanks for posting that quality pile of ar$e....nice one, well done...

An instinctive move TWICE, the second one altering completely the movement of the ball ? Wise up sunshine...

by **Dundalk** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:05 pm

Im still in the worst of form today about this. Cant seem to get over it.

Just feel cheated and we are missing out on a great summer and a lift the country badly badly needs

Cheating French ba$tards, ill cheer every team playing against them. Cunts :veryangry

by **Benny The Noon** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:10 pm

Fowler_E7 wrote:cant beleive how much flak Henry is getting for this, he handballed it and the official missed it. Its up to the ref and the linesman to spot the offence, whats Henry supposed to do? run over and say he handballed it dont give the goal! Ireland got robbed by a terrible decesion by the referee, people are blaming Henry like he did a Maradonna, it was an instinctive move what he did last night, its not like he punched it in the net.

will agree with the thought behind the post - its an unfortnate incident and they happen all the the time in football and their is always a winner and a loser - think there has been an little bit of overreaction towards henry and will agree it was more to do with instinct and most of the blame should lay with the linesman . Ireland arent the first time to be victim of a shocking ref desicion and wont be the last - feel sorry for them but thats football im afraid .

by **Judge** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:11 pm

article from the internet:

where ireland in on it?

Cheatgate, day two, and the sheer scale of the plot to deny Ireland a place at the World Cup becomes ever more apparent.

There are so many guilty parties, a millipede would struggle to point the finger at all of them.

Blame Thierry Henry for handling the ball then refusing to fess up (but didn't he show lovely technique to kill the ball dead with his first touch, then caress it onto his right foot with his second?).

Blame William Gallas for not 'doing a Paolo Di Canio' when the ball came across to him (no, not a fascist salute, that thing where he caught the ball and stopped play).

Blame the referee for not spotting the infringement, blame his linesman for not flagging offside and blame the fourth official for not having a quiet word in the ref's ear.

Blame FIFA for refusing to sanction a replay, for seeding the draw in France's favour, for failing to introduce video technology and for Sepp Blatter's smug, bloated face.

Blame Michel Platini for... well, for being French. Robbie Keane said Platini and Blatter would have been sending each other congratulatory texts. Nonsense. They have flunkies to do that sort of thing for them.

Blame World Cup sponsors Adidas, whose teams - according to Damien Duff - FIFA are desperate to have at the big party.

Early Doors would also suggest blaming the Irish defence for not heading away what looked an innocuous free-kick. Without their uncertainty, Henry could never have executed the dastardly plan.

Which begs the question: were the Irish in on the whole thing?

Did the game take place at all, or was it filmed in a studio in Area 51? Who was driving the white Fiat Uno that played Henry onside, and why was there a grassy knoll obscuring the referee's view of the handball?

There is so much anger, what was essentially just some foul play and a refereeing mistake has turned into a giant, sprawling conspiracy.

But if football's powermongers had the ability to fix the World Cup, how do you explain the existence of a fixture guaranteeing either Greece or Ukraine qualified?

And if Wednesday's game in Paris was stage-managed, wouldn't a routine 1-0 win to the French have been easier to pull off, rather than the forces of evil waiting until the 109th minute before exerting their malign influence? Or couldn't they have just awarded France a penalty for Shay Given's borderline challenge on Nicolas Anelka?

The FA of Ireland demanded a replay, making a rather transparent attempt to persuade FIFA the soul of football was at stake, not merely their chances of going to the World Cup.

Almost at the same instant, Giovanni Trapattoni injected an element of sanity, admitting a replay was "impossible" and focusing instead on the tangential issue of whether they should have been playing extra time at all.

Henry's subdued celebrations at the end of the game did not stem from guilt, but from a certain knowledge that he would be slaughtered.

We all love a public hanging, and ex-players, managers, pundits and white van men duly lined up to condemn him.

Even Arsene Wenger, the man who made Henry great, and who recently headed a vociferous and perplexingly successful defence of Eduardo da Silva, said he should have owned up.

Henry is a man who spent years taking flak for trying to score the perfect goal, and valuing style over substance, who finally signed up to the win-at-all-costs creed, who kicked the beautiful game square in the breadbasket and who tarnished his years of brilliance with a moment of subterfuge.

It's almost like something out of a Greek tragedy, and with a similar setting - you could probably mistake St Denis for Hades.

Henry is described in today's papers as 'repulsive', 'le cheat', 'sickening', 'seedy', 'a pariah', 'a figure of hatred and ridicule', and - thanks to the Daily Star for this one - 'a twit'.

Irish fury is completely understandable, but the feeding frenzy of moral outrage in the British press could not be less dignified if it necked 20 Bacardi Breezers and staggered through the streets of Cardiff with its knickers round its ankles.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY: FAI chief John Delaney: "Does he want to be remembered like Maradona?" Well, yes, he almost certainly does.

by **Benny The Noon** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:18 pm

What must also be remembered is Ireland had their chances during both matches to win as Roy Keane said the Irish should of won the game anyway if they had taken their chances

by **bunglemark2** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:28 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thierry_Henry&oldid=326715091

by **Benny The Noon** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:33 pm

Bit childish really .

If torres did the same to win the prem - not one of us here would give two fecking sh.its .

by **bunglemark2** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:34 pm

Pi$$ off GYBS

by **Benny The Noon** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:37 pm

As Keane said - the Irish FA were wrong to ask for the replay and it only masked the fact they failed to take thier chances .

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