[QUOTE=gally;1276430]Givens.......8
O'Shea......9
Dunne.......9
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I thought Givens was a striker?!:p
On a serious note I'm glad Dunphy mentioned the state of the u21's. Absolutely criminal.
[QUOTE=gally;1276430]Givens.......8
O'Shea......9
Dunne.......9
QUOTE]
I thought Givens was a striker?!:p
On a serious note I'm glad Dunphy mentioned the state of the u21's. Absolutely criminal.
Give their embassy a call, or send em a fax...Quote:
Originally Posted by Den Perry
Ambassade de France en Irlande, 36 Ailesbury road - Ballsbridge - DUBLIN 4
Tel : 00 353 1 277 5000 Fax : 00 353 1 277 5001
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
Some bloke called Alex from FIFA on Ray D'arcy show (of all things) saying that the seeding of play-offs was decided in 2007? is this true or was there a definite change of rules?
On the same show somebody stated that we should all boycott Gillett products...
It would be interesting if thousands mailed the Gillett and Reebok(Henry wears reebok boots I think?) marketing departments stating we would no longer buy their products while the have a cheat advertising them.
I know under contract law they probably couldn't sack him but it may make them think twice about offering him any new deals...this could snowball, not just the Irish market they'd lose, as I'm sure a lot of fans worldwide are sickened by Henry.
He is a cheat and a liar. He said in his press conferance that it was an accident - proof he is a liar. I also heard that prior to yesterday's game he accused Andrews and Trap of lying ver the Diarra incident? Think we all know who the liar is now...
Brady just called for replay on RTE radio there.. Some chance of that happening!
Why wouldn't they? Sure nothing happened.
According to Pat Kenny FIFA ordered a replay of an Asian qualifier due to a bad ref decision in 2005.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rafa B
dont think that will be happening this time....Quote:
Originally Posted by markmc
I agree...their will be no replay..the asian issue didn't bother FIFA as the two teams were not a major power in world football....Blatter also wants to keep Platini onsideQuote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
yeah I was happy to hear that too. Not down to the squad, down to Givens...
Brady is only trying to stirr things.... have no time for him tbh on the back of the Andy Reid thing. as for Reebok and Gillette, nice idea but they couldn't give a toss for the market share of 4m people they supply in Ireland! Tiny, Tiny market.
These type of hand balls go on in games all the time, ok in the center circle they don't really matter but some else posted earlier that to say it was instinct and I kinda agree. What I have a problem with is they way he celebrated, shows he was happy to cheat initially. In the cold light of day after the final whistle Henry looked soo guilty and Dunne showed what a man he is by not tellling henry to pis* off when he sat down with him. The Irish team are a team of men...... in every sence.
You can't have 8's for Gibson and McShane! McShane shouldnt have let the ball bounce and was at fault for the goal IMO. Gibson never really got into the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by gally
Givens.......9
O'Shea......9
Dunne.......10
St Ledger ..10
Kilbane......8
Lawrence...9
Whelan......8
Andrews....9
Duff..........9
Keane.......9
Doyle........8
Subs
Gibson.......6
McShane....5
McGeady....6.5
Can the FAI take this to the court of arbitration for sport?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_o...tion_for_Sport
They got there by cheating, what kind of message does that send out to the world?
What kind of message does that send out to children?
FIFA should be sacked, they are not fit to run a brothel.
A terrible one. Of course they should.
Never going to happen. Move on.
They wont get through the group stage, cant defend.
The idea is we go instead ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by centre mid
Yes, they definitely should.
Argentina should also hand back the 1986 World Cup because of Diego Maradonna's hand of God incident, England should be awarded the trophy.
Clam down. its an official thing., They're never, ever, ever going to crticise referees on it
Easy now, I hope that's the drink talking :DQuote:
Originally Posted by tiktok
Indeed, we either play a fair game or what is the point of playing at all, you may as well hand the trophy to the country with the most money.
Basicaly just make it like America Wrestling, that's the sort of stuff the yanks like, fake staged nonsense. Think of the money.
Maybe make Sepp Blatter a big clown in a costume, like Ronald McDonald, to make the game appeal to children?
Fifa have ordered World Cup qualifiers to be played before as a result of referring error. See here:
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive...sid=27212.html
FIFA confirmed today that the result of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ qualifying match between Uzbekistan and Bahrain on 3 September 2005 has been declared invalid and must be replayed. In order to respect the drawn order of the matches, the first leg is to be replayed in Uzbekistan on 8 October 2005, with the second leg match to be rescheduled for 12 October 2005 in Bahrain.
The decision was taken by the Bureau of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ Organising Committee following a formal protest from the Uzbekistan Football Federation concerning a technical error by the referee of the match.
According to Art. 12.4 (b) and 14.1 of the Regulations for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™, all protests, including those against technical errors committed by referees, are to be decided by the Organising Committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™. A bureau of the Organising Committee may pass a decision in lieu of the plenary committee in urgent matters.
The Bureau, composed of Chairman Lennart Johansson, Deputy Chairman Julio Grondona, Dr Chung Mong Joon and FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi, took the decision based on the following facts:
1) At the score of 1-0 in favour of Uzbekistan, in the 39th minute of the match, the referee decided to award a penalty kick to Uzbekistan;
2) The penalty kick was taken and led to goal in favour of Uzbekistan;
3) Before the penalty kick was carried out, an Uzbek player entered the penalty area;
4) Consequently, the referee awarded an indirect free kick to the Bahrain team;
5) However, in such a situation, the Laws of the Game require the referee to order the penalty kick to be retaken;
6) The captain of Uzbekistan team protested to the referee immediately after the mistake had taken place and before the game had restarted. This protest was confirmed after the match;
7) This technical error was confirmed by the match commissioner and the referee inspector in their respective reports;
8) Uzbekistan protested the decision of the referee in a written request, asking for the match to be "cancelled" and be evaluated with a 3-0 forfeit result;
The bureau, taking into consideration that the referee in the match in question had indeed committed a technical error, established that, as a consequence, the match needed to be replayed. As a result, the protest put forward by the Uzbekistan team for the match to be considered a forfeit with a 3–0 result is rejected. In accordance with Art. 12.6 of the Regulations 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™, this decision is final and binding.
They'll give us nothing - that was a clear case of the referee not knowing the rules. We were done by a failure of the referee to observe an incident - which they never question.
If the game is replayed, will henry be booked for the handball, if he is Keane must be booked twice for his too. He'll be a loss
Ridiculous carry on by some here...
Great analogy!!Quote:
Originally Posted by tricky_colour
Agreed. It was a high, hopeful punt into the box that any defender worth his salt would have dealt with. Still absolutely heartbreakon about what transpired thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by old git
Is it so ridiculous? I would argue it is more ridiculous that football, and the governing bodies in particular attempt to promote a culture of 'Respect' and 'Fair Play' and then appear more than willing to turn a blind eye to a situation which is completely abhorrent and foreign to those two terms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Ireland assistant boss Liam Brady has called for last night's controversial game between Ireland and France to be replayed.
Ireland lost out on a place in next year's World Cup finals to a goal scored after French captain Thierry Henry clearly handled the ball.
'If we are going to have integrity and dignity in the world game then the match should be replayed,' Mr Brady said on the Pat Kenny show this morning.
He was also critical of FIFA authorities for seeding the
play-off draw to favour the bigger teams.
Match officials who did not spot the foul had 'succumbed under real, real pressure' of 'the big teams have to go through', he added.
'Basically FIFA were saying we want you lot out and this lot in,' Mr Brady said. 'They were not expecting us to put up the fight we did.'
Henry admitted that he handled the ball in the build-up to the goal , but said it did not change anything regarding the fact that he was happy that France had qualified.
The second leg of the play-off ended one-all on the night at the Stade de France in Paris; but France went through 2-1 on aggregate.
agree 100% with dodge. Result would stand irrespective of who the two teams were and their standing within FIFA
Kilbanes on radio 5 live.
As I've said numerous times here, players on both sides handled the ball last night. Ref seen some, missed others.Quote:
Originally Posted by livehead1
Its not acceptable for either side to do it IMO, but referees make mistakes all the time. There's no conspiracy.
If there was a conspiracy, the ref would've given a penalty for Anelka's dive. Just like the ref gave one for Duff's dive here
So where would you draw the line? Cheating is getting increasingly worse in football. Not long before the 'hand of frog' incident, Anelka tried to deceive the referee by diving in the box. There are two options here. Either we turn a blind eye to all forms of 'cheating' or an extremely tough stance is taken. At the moment, the authorities don't know what to do. They tried the tough stance with Eduardo, then decided to repeal it, and I firmly believe they will do absolutely nothing in this situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fr Damo
Something radical has to be done, it is ruining the sport.
If they had the 2 extra officials behind the goals like the UEFA cup that would help enormously and we would have been in a penno shoot out last night. it is getting to be a joke at this stage.
I'm not condoning one form of cheating over another; I'm saying that the policy of 'what comes around goes around' just doesn't wash with me any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Cheating is ruining football, end of.
That Fox report is hilarious! Like reading a babelfish translation or something.
They say Henry scored, and two paragraphs later change to Gallas.Quote:
France avoided a penalty-kicks shootout and won the home-and-home, total-goals playoff 2-1.
The game appeared headed to penalty kicks when Florent Malouda sent a free kick to Henry at the post to the right of goalkeeper Shay Given in the 103rd minute.
I'm not a legal Brain but i guess the best they could do is isuue cards or sanctions if found to be quilty later via TV.. ok that would be after the event and no good to us or any other sporting team who suffer but eventually players would get the message and to avoid sanction and embarressment, decline to dive, handle, push, feign injury etc. Basically ridicule them.
In terms of righting wrongs, dunno how we do it so first port of call is to try and stamp it out.
The GAA do it with 24 and 48 week bans after incidents!
FIFA have their bigger Market now to sell their merchandise seedings my a.. it was just bigger Market potential nations against smaller. Thank god Slovenia won. They can pull down that fair play flag before games as well, hypocrites.
Regarding Henry he done what he had to do we wouldn't be complaining if we got away with it, but it's up to the authorities to spot stuff like that. Should have continued their tests with goal line judges for the playoffs. Maybe he wouldn't have seen it also because he got temporally blinded by the floodlights.
We will move on from this, the team will be stronger and they way they played yesterday made me so proud absolutely brilliant.
Come On Ireland
Found this on the FIFA.COM site.
They didn't even mention the Henry "Cheating ******" hand ball incident.
France 1-1 Republic of Ireland (first leg 1-0)
Goals: William Gallas 103 (France); Robbie Keane 32 (Republic of Ireland)
The story of the game
Hosts France were kept completely quiet in the first half by an Ireland team burning with passion, conviction and the desire to battle for every ball. Robbie Keane’s strike not long after the half-hour was just reward for the efforts the visitors had put in and it took heroics from France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to limit the damage to one goal. Les Bleus came into the contest after the break but remained vulnerable to Irish attacks, meaning the tie had to be resolved in extra time, when William Gallas equalised to send his team through to their fourth consecutive finals.
The key moment
After 180 hard-fought minutes, the fate of both teams was decided by a moment of drama in extra time. The outcome remained in the balance until the very last second, and when the final whistle was blown the disappointed Irish could hold their heads up high.
The man of the match
France have long been looking for a successor to Fabien Barthez and they have found the perfect candidate in Hugo Lloris. In this game, as in the opening leg, the Lyon No1 bolstered his burgeoning reputation with a string of top-class saves.
No they shouldnt. They fouled and the ref missed it.
It wont happen
Next
Unfortunalty Refs decision is final.
Sin é