Anyone else finding it hard to give a damn about the sport since the incident?

[OneRedArmy]

I don't like watching the replay's of the incident, and I still haven't watched the whole match back again (and doubt I will), but as many above have said, these things happen all the time in football. Watching my club go bust at the same time also put a bit of additional perspective on it.

Life goes on, football goes on, its still the same (imperfect) game it was before the France game, and there were a lot of positives to take from this campaign. Actually, when I think about, I'm a hell of a lot more positive than during the Staunton era when I went to games out of duty, with no real sense of excitement, more a feeling of boredom/dread.

Onwards and upwards....

[Weatherman]

I actually got so annoyed when i was watching the world cup draw that i had to turn it off and even the other day in work i had to stop reading the Richie Dunne piece in the paper about Henry cheating because i got so angry and annoyed!!! my blood is still boiling! i would never fall out wit the sport tho! i just hope that some irish player comes up against barcelona in the champions league soon!!!

[tiktok]

........even the other day in work i had to stop reading the Richie Dunne piece in the paper about Henry cheating because i got so angry and annoyed!

Wow, that's extreme, I'd find it hard to imagine something getting me so angry that I'd stop dodging work.

[Scram]

I find it hard to look at EPL games, I would always have interest where Irish palyers are involved but now it's like "so what??" They won't be playing for us anytime soon. :(

But I do hope to see Stephen Ireland doing very badly and I also hope Ipswich lose tonight and Keane loses his job, bitter moments like that keep me going :D

[Razors left peg]

I havent watched a full game of football since. I must admit I did enjoy the rugby against South Africa the other week but every time I try watch a bit of football I see another refereeing error, like the penalty that was given to Portsmouth at the weekend, and I just get p1ssed off with the game all over again. Seeing the highlights of Seamie Coleman and Darron Gibson at the weekend did perk me up a bit and I did get a little hit of excitement for the Euro Championships when I seen pics of Trap and Tardelli scouting at the weekend, but I still couldnt give a toss about the weeks Champions League games.Maybe if the League of Ireland season was still going I would have got a bit of a buzz back by now but I think this apathy is gonna last a while yet

[EastTerracer]

...but I still couldnt give a toss about the weeks Champions League games.

To be fair, most of the Champions League games are difficult to watch in this phase. The whole competition needs a revamp to make it interesting before the knock-out rounds.

I'm slowly getting over the Paris disappointment but France's draw last Friday did prompt a surge of bile to rise in my throat. A French lad at work ran in to tell me about France's draw and I reacted with some vitriol.

It seems like many of us are at different stages of the healing process but I think I'm established in "acceptance" now.


"The 5 stages of the loss process?
Stage 1: Denial
Stage 2: Bargaining
Stage 3: Anger
Stage 4: Despair
Stage 5: Acceptance"

[OneRedArmy]

I find it hard to look at EPL gamesMe too, but not because of Thierry Henry or France. Its one small step removed from WWE.

I surprised at the amount of damascene conversions in this thread. Football administration and governance was inherently grubby and corrupt long before we played France.

No al calcio moderno.

[EastTerracer]

I surprised at the amount of damascene conversions in this thread. Football administration and governance was inherently grubby and corrupt long before we played France.

No al calcio moderno.

100% with you here. Ireland were burned enough times in the 70s and early-80s to know what this feels like and we've seen it happen to many other countries since then. That's why boycotts, 33rd teams and replays were never realistic propositions.

It hurts but we'll get over it.

[jbyrne]

100%.

I'm still in love with the beautiful game and looking forward to a WC free of Ole ole based muppetry and having to suffer comment from clowns who have never been to a game in their lives. Unfortunate that we had the worst of both worlds after our draw in Paris, no WC and inane prattle from new age football 'fans', but they are onto the next fad, leaving a month of me watching football in peace.

I'm cheering for France, just to see the Joe Duffy-esque drama queens on here's heads explode. Allez les blues!

why post in this section if you think we are better off without Ireland in the WC? sad, very sad really

[jbyrne]

Not at all, I see ole ole muppets crawling out of the woodwork as a tax on our world cup participation - a manageable pain. Unfortunatly they did so anyway over Henry and we have the worst of both worlds.

But now we are not there, these so called fans will not be clogging up the national media and bars with their inane prattle, so the rest of us can get on with watching the football.

its only a sport at the end of the day. cheer up!

[paul_oshea]

But now we are not there, these so called fans will not be clogging up the national media and bars with their inane prattle, so the rest of us can get on with watching the football.

Sure the rest of ye watching football wouldn't have to worry about them as they would be in the bars and well you would be out watching football so paths would never cross.

[Razors left peg]

Not a bother on me. Looking forward to the new season and World Cup already. Barstool free zones both.

Would bar stools not be in use for watching the World Cup??

[SUB of the day]

[QUOTE=Stuttgart88;1289804]I'd love to be able to be as emotionally detached as you superfrank but I just can't.

It's like your old dog dying. The near-certainty that you'd survive the daft mutt when you got it and the fact that dogs just get old and die all the time doesn't mean that you don't get upset when it happens, and in particularly bad circumstances.

This weekend was a good one for Irish footballers in the UK so some cheer returned.

However, with regard to "switching" to rugby, I still can hardly envisage a situation where rugby can bring the sheer tension, drama and scale of what happened in this play-off. Even the fantastic Grand Slam win didn't touch those heights.
Sums it all up for me, different strokes for different folks.Anyone representing Ireland in any sport, boxing rugby athletics etc, would have my unqualified support, however the litmus test is the level of disappointment when they fall short.The ROI football team is like a series of stage posts in my life, from Glasgow to Gelsenkirchen, Paris to Palermo, young free and single, to Dad of three.I still can't watch the game in St Dennis, the Keane and Duff misses, and of course that incident, hurt.If Ireland lose a six nations game, there will always be another around the corner,before Paris it was eight years since we were in a similiar playoff situation in football.2010 promises much, going home to Lansdowne, Euro draw, but more importantly a renewed belief and connection with our team, that no matter the top two seeds in the group, we can take them on, home and away with realistic expectations to come out on top....England and Sweden for me, bring it on!
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[paul_oshea]

OH id love england.

[Stuttgart88]

[QUOTE=Stuttgart88;1289804]I'd love to be able to be as emotionally detached as you superfrank but I just can't.

It's like your old dog dying. The near-certainty that you'd survive the daft mutt when you got it and the fact that dogs just get old and die all the time doesn't mean that you don't get upset when it happens, and in particularly bad circumstances.

This weekend was a good one for Irish footballers in the UK so some cheer returned.

However, with regard to "switching" to rugby, I still can hardly envisage a situation where rugby can bring the sheer tension, drama and scale of what happened in this play-off. Even the fantastic Grand Slam win didn't touch those heights.
Sums it all up for me, different strokes for different folks.Anyone representing Ireland in any sport, boxing rugby athletics etc, would have my unqualified support, however the litmus test is the level of disappointment when they fall short.The ROI football team is like a series of stage posts in my life, from Glasgow to Gelsenkirchen, Paris to Palermo, young free and single, to Dad of three.I still can't watch the game in St Dennis, the Keane and Duff misses, and of course that incident, hurt.If Ireland lose a six nations game, there will always be another around the corner,before Paris it was eight years since we were in a similiar playoff situation in football.2010 promises much, going home to Lansdowne, Euro draw, but more importantly a renewed belief and connection with our team, that no matter the top two seeds in the group, we can take them on, home and away with realistic expectations to come out on top....England and Sweden for me, bring it on!
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Not sure what you're trying to say there but of course any Ireland team has my unqualified support. It'ss just that losing in Paris hurt like no loss in rugby or any other sport ever could, and winning in Paris would have hit heights that no other Irish success could have reached in my mind. At the same time I took great comfort in the fact that we're back being competitive again and can realistically expect to give it a good go in qualifying.

[irishultra]

haha murfinator i see where u were coming from but i never lost the buzz for xmas or my love for wrestling even when i found out both were 'fake' i actually never thought wrestling was real. with that in mind for our people in america watch TNA on spike tv on january 4th :D

anyway i havent had any interest in any non irish or belgian leagues for years. even champions league has lost the buzz for me this year. i watch english highlights if an irish player has done something noteworthy.