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Robbie could have replied appreciating Henry's fine sentiments and requested all vilification of this player to cease and that it's time to draw a line, move on and wish France and their supporters well in SA.
And offer to take them on in a friendly just before they leave for SA.
Precisely. I could be mistaken, but I'd say a lot of the outrage in the UK is from the full scale media coverage, particularly from Sky. The only reason this is happening is because they need a big story to keep viewing figures up whilst there's no football, and so they can flash their "Breaking News" icon with a 'major' story. As soon as club football restarts there'll be plenty more and our plight will be out of the news.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishultra
That'd be an idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Or as Dara O'Briain suggested last night, a penalty shoot out in Hackney Marsh, or make France play in green is Sth Africa.
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Originally Posted by Billsthoughts
Nice one!......thanks for that.
Dara's column in the Guardian makes for interesting reading: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...france-irelandQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
He never apologised for his own cheating during the game:confused:
Grow up FFS.Quote:
Originally Posted by corkboy360
Grow up ?Quote:
Originally Posted by EastTerracer
Did you not see his dive ? it was embarrasing.
The people that need to grow up are the ones asking for a replay and wanting to protest.
What about Maradonna's hand of God ? Was that game replayed?
In fairness that was during a World Cup and there was no time to replay it. Btw Maradona scored again after it and they won 2-0 so it didn't directly affect the result.Quote:
Originally Posted by corkboy360
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Originally Posted by corkboy360
I'm not looking for a replay and I'm not protesting outside an embassy. I was at the game and was proud of the way our team played. Robbie Keane was amongst the best of them on the night and no I was not embarrased by him. If you want to criticise him, go right ahead, but it marks you out as a sad pathetic individual.
It's not just Irish people who are asking for a replay. 70% of respondents in a SKy News poll as well as a French Newspaper think there should be a replay. Most French people think there should be a replay.
Their reason? As with Irish people, in the interests of fair play. Sport by definition is not sport if it's not about fair play.
The whole ethos of sport is competitors competing to the same rules.
It's actually more pathetic and sad when people don't seek to uphold the sporting ethos. It demonstrates that people aren't truely interested in sport.
At the end of the day, what we say on Wednesday night was Brand France versus Brand Ireland, and Brand France is much more lucrative to FIFA and the WC than Brand Ireland. Sport played a back seat to it all.
Well done robbie, a very proper statement, i'm very proud to have him as our captain. Now that he's repeatedly scored in huge games for us the fools who used to laughably say that he should be dropped are really running out of excuses.
How he can thank henry just shows what a true sportsman robbie is. Me? I'd question henry saying a replay would be fair, after fifa and the french federation say otherwise. So clearly someone desperate to hang on to their lucrative media image as the good guy. That robbie can focus on football and not stoop to mentioning it is a measure of the man.
Meanwhile it also invalidater the point of many that we'd all do it if we could get away with it. Maybe. But i don't think many of us would react so spinelessly as thierry (celebrating the goal, pretending to console irish players, saying it wasn't deliberate, and now 2 days later finally saying we should have their place and a replay ordered after he makes sure there,s no chance of that actualy happening.)
Robbie cares about a world cup and football.
Their captain cares about his image, sponsorship contracts and the media, right down to every pathetic last uber cool goal celebration.
[QUOTE=irishultra;1278876]LOL 'even the brits' they're the most likely to give a **** but by tommorow when their clubs are back playing they will have forgot all about it.
You've got a wharped mentality. If you stopped for a second you'd realize that the vast majority of British people are supportive of Ireland in their current plight. They have been very complimentary of our situation, at least any that I've read in the media, but you want to have a go at them? Makes no sense.
Very well put by Robbie, can't see FIFA changing their stance, so frustrating that their response is so cold with a dismissive website post, there should be at the very least repurcusions for Henry from FIFA/ FFF for shaming the game.
So you encourage diving ?Quote:
Originally Posted by EastTerracer
Why don't Ireland just gatecrash the WC next year? Imagine the squad rolling up for France's first game?!
Lineker scored to make it 2-1, no?Quote:
Originally Posted by galwayjames
yeah thats right game finished 2-1
smart move by Robbie but there is zero hope of a replay - we just have to get used to this fact