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.
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.
You can't spell failure without FAI
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...
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Great analogy!!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 thoughalso mc shane should have attacked ball and cleared it
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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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.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
Pull my finger!!!
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.
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later
FORM IS TEMPORARY, CLASS IS PERMANENT
No they shouldnt. They fouled and the ref missed it.
It wont happen
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"Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"
Unfortunalty Refs decision is final.
Sin é
"Now jump up there and stuff that son of a bitch in the basket, chief"
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