France V Ireland - Wednesday, 18th November 2009 - World Cup 2010 Playoff Second Leg

[ofjames]

thread title says it all

broke the rules cos they couldnt beat us on the pitch. henry is a thief

[Noelys Guitar]

Blatant cheating. And Anelka should have been booked for the dive. Plus the inital offside. Sick.

[galwayjames]

One time I think swearing is valid on this site.

[rambler14]

Robbery...........Belgium 1997 all over again.

What a performence though! Duff, Kilbane, Andrews, Dunne, Lawrence, Keane.......outstanding. Everybody Outstanding!!! 102 caps Kilbane's best game ever.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini got their wish!

Although we should have had it wrapped up after 90 minutes!

I thought with the exception of the French goal the referee was fantastic even if he did look like Dave McKeown

[old git]

thread title says it all

broke the rules cos they couldnt beat us on the pitch. henry is a thief

yip cheated out of it ... a magnificent performance by a super team to go to paris and totally outplay france with soccer & pure passion .. but also it kills me to say we still had 3 great chances to finish game off doyle header / duff & keane .. but at the end of the day a performance to make anybody proud to be irish tonight... hope the french get stuffed in world cup now

[The Legend]

Well i thought i'd never say this, but if England play France at the world cup, it will be the first time i ever hoped England won.

in general, i hope they humiliate themselves, which shouldnt be too hard with that clown in charge.

[ofjames]

screw giles and souness. of course he bloody meant it. they get irrate over absolutely minute details regarding other games then fail to get worked up over this

dunphy hit the nail on the head, henry should be ashamed of himself

[WexCar]

Henry wasnt even celebrating at the end of the match, looked like he was apologising to Dunne when he sat down beside him at the end

[carloz]

FIFA have got the result they wanted, they are happy now. i hope the ref and his assistants enjoy his ten pieces of silver for tonight. Cheating, there is no other word for it. I have never in my life been this angry. How can you have officials in charge of a game like this, which is the most important game for many of those players lives, and miss an offside and two blatant blatant handballs. Karma is a bitch and i hope you get it in bucket loads Mr Henry. Scem, nothing short of it

[Angus]

Calm down everybody - clearly handball but it happens all of the time and it is gutting that it happened at such a key time in the game

But it happens all of the time - and if it was at the other end we would whooping and talking about professionalism etc

[rambler14]

Ireland created nothing in extra-time. We should be watching a penalty shoot-out right now!
I fancied yer man Lloris to do the business in the shoot-out. Fair play to him a fantastic keeper.

[galwayjames]

Henry wasnt even celebrating at the end of the match, looked like he was apologising to Dunne when he sat down beside him at the end

And so he should

[carloz]

Calm down everybody - clearly handball but it happens all of the time and it is gutting that it happened at such a key time in the game

But it happens all of the time - and if it was at the other end we would whooping and talking about professionalism etc

As i said, this was the biggest game of many of those players lives. How can you have officials that miss 2 handballs and an offside. I think we have every right to feel robbed.

[LeBleu]

tonight my favorite team is qualified. But I'm not happy.
I'm feel sick, I'm disgusted by football.
Henry must be ban.
Ireland deserve 10 times more to go in sud africa than France.
So sorry for you.

[seanfhear]

If Robbie Keane or Kevin Doyle did the same and Ireland went through would ye be complaining.

Mind you after that Henry would make a good corner forward on a Gaelic football team. If he had done much more he would have solo-ed and hopped it. It looked at least a double hand ball.

There could have been an off-side in the build up as well