Israel match thread

[ifk101]

Anyone else get their connection closed down by Israeli TV???

[czarner]

Yeah, + me after staying up til 2:30am here in China... Can't get the RTE server to accept my connection to the radio either! Anyone know an alternative audio stream source?

[ifk101]

I'm listening with RTE but BBC have a radio stream. Go to bbc.co.uk, click on football, and then top right hand corner for radio-stream.

[dancinpants]

Ah balls lads, don't throw it away AGAIN...
2-1

[Plastic Paddy]

Is this referee for real?

2-2 with a twice-taken penalty for a "foul" by O'Shea on Benayoun, who was falling already. H/T.

PP

[dancinpants]

Livescore have it as 2-2!!!
Whats the story? Is it 2-1 or 2-2?

[czarner]

BBC blocked here in China! Got RTE stream going though, and depressing listening it makes too. That witterer Hand... I think I'll head to bed + watch it on the Israeli TV in the morning. Sounds like it'll be a very interesting 2nd half. We'll see what Kerr's made of now I suppose.

[Sheridan]

2-2 from a thrice-taken penalty

John O'Shea might not be capable of defending like Hierro (at his peak), but he's just as adept at the Suwon Shirtlift!

[dancinpants]

So thats it? We've gone and fcukin' shot ourselves in the foot again!!!. Typical fcukin' Ireland - always do it the hard way!!!, thats if we don't lose this game.

[Plastic Paddy]

Oh no, there's still forty-five more minutes for this clown of a ref to shaft us again. I don't blame us at all (for once).

PP

[Emmet]

We can still do it but we need to keep the ball better ... too many fancy tricks, sloppy passes, and unnecessary fouls

[tonycuna]

I'm listening the match on RTE,
Oh, what a f***ing first half!!!

Now without Robbie I don't know if we'll win, but I'll believe it til the end

C'mon!!!!!

[dancinpants]

Only 10 mins left? We're in bother lads.

[tonycuna]

We can't lose points today!

C'mon! C'mon! Right till the end!

[Jon'o]

cheating barsteward!!!

Never a sending off, keeper fell over then grabbed his face.

CHUNT!!!

Saying that though should have finished this shower off a long time ago

[terry9]

FOR FU CK SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

does that sum it up lads?

[Emmet]

2-2 ... un fuc*in believeable

[Plastic Paddy]

Denied by a combination of blatant cheating, refereeing bias and tactical incompetence. We should at the very least:

i) appeal to UEFA to have Andy O'Brien's red card overturned. It should be upheld, no question.
ii) petition UEFA to have that clown transferred forthwith to JP Barnum's circus in the expectation that he'd be much better with the other clowns, and;
iii) look very, very seriously at the position of manager should we fail to qualify from what is, with France's very ordinary form, in essence a very ordinary group.

I expect pelters for point iii) especially from some quarters of the eL brigade. I don't care. Kerr's tactics seem muddled at the best of times. Damien Duff played in three different set positions at different times ffs! Where's the continuity? It's all panic stuff, no fluidity. No wonder they found it so easy to undermine us. Lads and lasses, I see a silk purse being made into a sow's ear, and it's just not good enough. The bar was raised a generation ago when we beat England in Euro 88 and then got to the World Cup quarter-finals. These players need to be made to deliver, and at the moment it just doesn't seem to be there when it's really necessary. Like I said, it's just not good enough.

PP

[CollegeTillIDie]

John O'Shea committed the foul that was the cause of the penalty decision and overall was very poor. He should be dropped forthwith. Another Basel like performance from him.

[tonycuna]

There's just one reason that make me happy: Ian Harte's goal..

Apart from this, tonight it was an unbelievable match... A good performance, 2-0 up, two goals from nothing for them, a second half dominated by us but its 2-2...

Really sad..