Originally Posted by
DannyInvincible
Of course, the two incidents were not inter-related and had occurred independently of one another, but there were schools of karmic thought - including the "you win some; you lose some", the "get over it" and simply the "anti-Robbie/Delaney/soccer" schools of thought - that said we had no right to feel aggrieved after the "bad luck" of the Henry hand-ball incident due to the "good luck" we'd allegedly enjoyed during the qualification group. The winning of a "soft penalty" against Georgia was pin-pointed as a prime example of good fortune had been justifiably "evened out" by the bad fortune that eventually came our way.
And so, as the chattering classes chattered and the twittering classes twittered, this fanciful notion, grounded primarily in loose tongue and text, that we were the lucky ones gathered legs and snowballed. People who'd never even seen the Georgia incident were telling us we were hypocrites. Someone overheard that Robbie was involved; whatever about the ball having skimmed off the Georgian defender's arm, Robbie looked like he'd cradled it in his arms as he took it down in the box before compounding Georgian misery by having the audacity to step up and coolly slot home the penalty. Rumour was he might even have murdered a Georgian in the process.
