Algeria-Egypt is on-going.
Ukraine-Greece: will Ukraine make it?
Slovenia-Russia: this could be a shocker, after the meagre 2:1 for Russia in Moscow.
Bosnia-Portugal: Bosnia could be a surprise winner, too, bu IMO that would be less of a shocker.
France-Ireland: France should win easily. But there is Domenech. Will they fire Domenech at last if Ireland wins?
Uruguay-Costa Rica: Uruguay should clinch this. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
oooooops Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Wrong.
Teh Domenech is a fearsome beast.
(Anecdote: in 1973, France played Ireland in a World Cup decider. France had to win, a draw wouldn't do. France went one up at ten minutes from the end, but Ireland got one in at the last minute. France eliminated.
Heroically playing in defence for France was one Raymond Domenech.)
EVEN BIGGER CONTROVERSY. This is quite unbelievable. Long ball over the top - and two French players are offside - but forget that, Thierry Henry juggles the ball CLEARLY with his hand before squaring for William Gallas to bundle in. The Republic of Ireland have been robbed here. Robbed.
I can't say I would have been disappointed if Ireland had managed to score in the last few minutes. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
At the end of the game the journalists (Irish and Scottish) were saying that they would have done the same, that if you are a professional footballer that's what you do.
That is probably true but then, I don't want to ever hear again that sportsmen are role models. Although, maybe the point is that it's precisely the kind of behaviour that is encouraged in today's world. But that makes me sick. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
The question is not the referee but his linesman. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
