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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.


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 05:25:00 PM EST
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I don't understand professional sport. How can Henry not tell the referee that he used his hand?

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 05:40:36 PM EST
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Well I only have heard the radio comentary so far, and from the ammount of outrage from the reporters and comentators, It must have been absolutely clear cut.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 05:46:04 PM EST
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It was that clear cut.

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

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 05:56:15 PM EST
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Ah just seen it on the Murdoch sports news channel. That was truly apalling.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 06:05:06 PM EST
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It was absolutely clear cut.  How you miss a call like that as a referee is beyond me.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 06:39:41 PM EST
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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

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 06:44:54 PM EST
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After the changing of the rules to seed the candidates, then this, the Irish would have a reasonable right to feel that there was a conspiracy against them.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 07:26:43 PM EST
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If there had been a conspiracy, it would have been far easier to call the penalty kick 5 minutes earlier.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 01:38:49 AM EST
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The conspiracy is refusing to allow the 4th referee to use video footage to advise the main referee in real time.

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
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 05:02:56 AM EST
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The outrage is that Henry is not Maradona.

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
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 05:53:33 PM EST
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Henry at least isn't a total asshole about it.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 08:36:18 AM EST
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Exactly: if you're going to do it you have to be an asshole about it.

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
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 08:49:43 AM EST
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