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jebus
I'll retract that and say the vast majority of you, maybe not all, although I will say that any of you marching on the French Embassy tomorrow are a disgrace
Anyway on to the rest. Of course people are angry, I was angry watching that game, not just at people like Henry and Anelka for cheating, I was angry at McShane, I was angry at Given, I was angry at McGeady, Duff, Keane, O'Shea, all of them that messed up at certain stages during the game. But this bile that has been spewing from most people's mouths about Henry needs to stop. I've had people who watch maybe one or two games of football a year trying to tell me I'm wrong in my opinion of the sport being full of cheats, at every level. I was actually physically threatened the other night for saying 'Henrys a cheat, so what?' after the match had ended. Those Facebook groups are full of people that no one would miss if they all forgot how to use designated walkways and marched themselves over a cliff tomorrow morning. People saying boycott Gilette and French Cuisine need to slap themselves a few times in the face. People on about marching on the French Embassy need to look around at the real problems affecting Ireland at the moment and direct their marches elsewhere. But worst of all, and this is one of the main reasons that football sickens me these days, is the hypocrisy of the football fans who actually know about the game. You all are acting like you've never been a part of the cheating process that runs through football, or your team has never cheated in any way shape or form. I'll say this to you, have you never called for a free or penalty to the ref for your team when you're not certain it was, or sometimes even know it wasn't? Do you Owlsfan shake your head in disgust when Mark Beevers tugs the jersey of the oppositions attacker when a corner comes in? Berate a constant offender like Robbie Keane when he puts his hand up for a corner after he's had the last touch?
On Wednesday night people were going on about stamping out all cheating, when they realised that they couldn't hold their ground on that when people like myself, Dodge, In Exile, passinginterest and others pointed out that very point above me they started to quantify it with levels of cheating and importance of games, which only make them sound even more idiotic and hypocritical. This isn't a new thing, I hear it in the pub every week after (say) a Man Utd player has dived against Liverpool and the Pool fans are up in arms, forgetting that their team captain throws himself to the ground at the slightest touch. Remember Celtic's disgust at Eduardo? Where were they when McGeady was rightly sent off for diving 4 days later? Hypocrites the lot of them and their attitude has soured football for me. This is just the latest chapter.
Wasn't the wars I was referring to, as I think you may know, more the type of American who started calling french fries Freedom Fries, had a completely blinkered view to the holes in their arguments and who responded to rational questions by shouting louder about the injustice of it all and accusing the questioner of being unpatriotic. Remember how much we all laughed at them in civilised Ireland, guess who's the butt of the joke now
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