France 1-1 Republic of Ireland World Cup 2010 Qualifying Play-Off Highlights (Video)
by Mad Dog and Glory on November 18th, 2009 30 words | 49 commentsA Thierry Henry handball cost Ireland a chance of a glorious win in Paris and France sneak into South Africa 2010.
0-1 Keane
1-1 Gallas
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anonymous - November 18th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
CHEATED! another compotision that a british team has been cheated out of,
first scotland, now ireland!! its a discrase!
dave - November 19th, 2009 at 12:01 am
that is disgraceful!
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 12:01 am
ireland are not british northern ireland are
dave - November 19th, 2009 at 12:01 am
up there with maradona’s hand of god
kermit - November 19th, 2009 at 12:03 am
thieryy henry i hate you , you ve lost all respect asa footballer, i dont care how good you used to be , you had to resortt to cheating against minnows like us, scum scum scum
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 12:12 am
you all know that would happen look the guys running the show wanted all the “big” countries at the world cup i personally dont see the point of topping your group if still all the ones who finish seconds and are a big country still get to go
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 12:36 am
fucking disgrace nothing to say more henry is a fucking cheater …
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 12:37 am
yes it is a disgrace but Ireland are not a British team! i don’t really blame Henry, he just took advantage of the situation. I’m just pissed off that they don’t use video replays for goals like the TMO in rugby matches
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 1:16 am
ireland arn`t british, and what competition have scotland been cheated out of? they are not unlucky, just shit and opinionated
desperately unlucky for ireland, said when the draw was made they had a good chance of beating a poor france team. by far the better side in this leg, doyle upfront was outstanding, and what happened to keanes trademark dink when he was through in the 2nd half?
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 1:31 am
horribly disappointing from Henry that.
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 2:43 am
how can you blame this on henry, he doesnt purposefully use his hand to knock the ball down, it falls and he makes a superb cross. if anything it is the fault of the referee for not seeing that and making the obvious call. you should ostracize the ref instead of henry…
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 8:10 am
tærte pie
kermit - November 19th, 2009 at 9:15 am
henry did purposefully use his hand to control the ball, he is a disgraceful cheat, used to be a great player now nothing but a cheat, and for a poor france team , well they were in the last world cup final so they arent that poor, i think we did great, and all the irish players deserve medals for the efforts , huge mentions to keane , duff, doyle and esp my man of the match keith andrews
Retryboy - November 19th, 2009 at 9:48 am
You have platini working totally for french football 24/7 then you get this at international its a disgrace. They don’t want to use video replays because they can’t fix games then. Poor decisions win titles, get teams relegated and now stop a whole country going to the world cup its a total disgrace!
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 10:06 am
i m french but not so happy because in fact henry plays like maradonna.
But some minutes before, theyr a fault on anelka an a penalty stollen.
sorry ireland
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 10:55 am
We are not proud to win in this way. It’s clearly a stolen victory and I’m so sorry for Ireland. All the teams must often face this kind of problems (France also against his last Serbie match) because FIFA doesn’t want to use video replays like in rugby. I blame them all for create frustation and unjustice.
Julien from France
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 11:13 am
did you attempt to edit the handball out??
it jumps each angle of the incident and seems to miss it
it was so blatant, Henry should be embarassed with himself – disgrace
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 11:18 am
fucking henry
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I’ve already sent an e-mail to fifa, questioning if they support fair-play or if they support CHEATERS!!!
All the people should do the same!!!
Keep the pressure, put these French Cheaters out of the game!!!!!
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I would like to see a video, demonstrating what is fair play vs the video of the french goal…
There are many examples, like di canio for instance, in West Ham… Who can make this video… Put on youtube…
I’ll support it!!!
Kick the french cheaters out of the world cup!
(portuguese football fan)
baggins09 - November 19th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
it a complete joke i bet fifa don’t follow up on this, a country has missed out on going to the world cup and nothing will get done, i bet if it was england who had just CHEATED the goal would be struck off and ireland through.
just shows how corrupt these governing bodies are it puts me off wanting to watch the world cup we’ll never be allowed to win it even if we deserve to
kermit - November 19th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
we demand a fucking replay
kermit - November 19th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
now understands how the english felt in 1986, fifa should intervene and force a replay
kermit - November 19th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
i have written to fifa demanding a replay, most of saw argentina knock england out of the 1986 world cup, in theaftermath of that i feel a precedence ought to have been set for future similar occurences yet here we are 23 years later and the same thing happens again, so much for fifa and their fair play
i demand a replay
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
“It was the hand of god”
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
4king French cheating c#nts!
The only way FIFA can retain a little credability is to force a replay of the match and ban Henry from playing in it.
Obviously that will never happen. Platini’s only objective is French Football which also was clearly demonstrated in the last minute decision to seed the teams going into the play-offs. We wouldnt’ want to France to play Italy or Portugal now. Would we?
DanishRed
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
British Team ??? It was Rep Ireland !! yeah it must be harsh being knocked out by a blatant handball in the WC play offs, just imagine if it had been the WC quarter finals, If France or any other team in the WC play against England i know who the whole of Ireland will be supporting (Not England) I for one am as pleased to see France go through as any self respecting Irishman, welshman or Scotsman would be to see Engalnd get beaten.
ALLEZ LES BLEUS!!! ALLEZ HENRY!!
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
fifa and the f.a and all the top dogs so called big boys, gamble, cheat, lie, match fix and the rest of it they dont want people to fight they want people to say yes sir and no sir thats it, people should stand up to cheating and crooks who the fuck do they think they are, dont they know there is a place called hell awaiting them. sepp blatter is a cheat. a liar. to all the people who wants justice should stand up and fight for righteous.
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Stop moaning you paddies. That life. Get over it.
Give me France anyday.
Terry O’Henry – IRISH LEGEND lol
sidu - November 19th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
ha ha ha ha
vive la france
on est en afrique du sud
sales irlandais
sidu - November 19th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
el mano de dios
la main de dieux
the hand of god
the god in your ass !!!
sidu - November 19th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
merci Henry : you are the best player in handball
HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAH
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
wonder what the guys with all the power would have done if this was done to france or brazil or a country like that
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
fifa had this shit all planned out from day one its all to do wit money there is abut 65 million people that live in france and abut 4million in ireland. thats more money 4 the tv rights and fifa get a big wage bonus,some fair play they are doing.
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
cheating frogs should be ashamed i hope england get to knock the cheating scumbags out of the world cup.
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
du u no just think if ireland did this to france i noo they cheated but they wud hav been jupin in galore
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
ah your here now kermit felt sorry 4 u last night m8 but you know platini isnt gonna do anything to fk up france so am afraid you are up shit creek as they say what about starting thread just about henry c wot his cheating has done 4 his rep [cunt]
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Soccer – all cocksuckers! If i was in Ireland’s place i wouldn’t continue with the match. Simple as that. Fuck that.
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Would just like to clarify a few things amongst all the abuse thrown by Irish and French fans:
1) It should not have been awarded a goal because Henry used his hand
2) The first touch of the hand is unintentional, his hand is there and it hits it.
3) The second touch of the hand is intentional – once it has hit Henry’s hand he realises, he could set up Gallas with a goal and palms it slightly into his path
4) Anelka should have had a penalty – therefore all Irish fans calling for a replay as the only way justice could be served are joking themselves. This does not excuse the handball by Henry, but all Irish fans claiming a conspiracy need a reality check.
5) The fact is Ireland had more than enough chances to win the game. – they have only themselves to blame for the loss
6) If the handball is seen and Henry given a yellow card, there is STILL NO GUARANTEE that Ireland would have gone through to the WC – there was still the second half of extra-time to go and penalties. So in that sense Ireland were not robbed of a WC berth.
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 5:42 am
anonymous: Kick the french cheaters out of the world cup!
(portuguese football fan)
HAHAH from the biggest cheating nation ever, just look up deco and ronaldos diving problems…
HENRY HENRY HENRY FOREVER MY HERO
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 5:46 am
anonymous – November 19th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
fifa had this shit all planned out from day one its all to do wit money there is abut 65 million people that live in france and abut 4million in ireland. thats more money 4 the tv rights and fifa get a big wage bonus,some fair play they are doing.
so they planned for that exact scenario to occur, for henry to have a blatant handball? seems to me if there were actually a conspiracy they would have planned it to NOT look like a conspiracy.
next time dont try to type, think, and drink at the same time damn irishman
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Everyone going against the Irish should be ashamed! I know for a fact that if this happened to England I would be the first to complain and I am Irish. Justice needs to be served for the good of the game! Yes we might not have gone on to win the game. But the effort those boys made they deserved to go out on their own accord which would have been losing the game FAIRLY! Anyone, Irish or not knows this is wrong! Henry and FIFA have ruined the reputation of this game forever! What would have happened if we did it to France….?Hmm just a thought Platini, Blatter and Co. Just a thought?!
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Stop fuckin moaning. All countries have had bad decisions. If we replayed every game that had a disputed goal in it we would be playing them every week!
Roy Keane is right. Get over it. FANNIES.
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
If we played every game with a disputed goal in it we would be playing them every week.
Poor Ireland. They got a dodgy penalty in a game and did they offer to replay it? NO.
Roy Keane is right. Stop crying about it. Get over it. Its laughable.
anonymous - November 20th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
France lhas ost a lot of game because of bad referees. This time the referee helped France to win. So get over it and wish France to win the world cup like this you will be able to complain more next year.
anonymous - November 21st, 2009 at 10:02 am
french are ruining football, platini and blatter wan to live in the past so they can fix games while the french team is not french but african mercenaries
anonymous - November 22nd, 2009 at 3:21 am
the king of cheater , Thiery henry…
anonymous - November 22nd, 2009 at 7:08 am
ALLEZ LES BLUES, ALLEZ HENRY!!!!!!!!!!
anonymous - November 22nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
First one may compare FIFA to an old medieval institution, doing all they can, to renegade the evolution, and doing so, control the game, control the money. That’s why they are against any type of improvements regarding the veracity of the game.
Second we have to tell our children, when they see these players cheating, and profiting from it, this is not the right way to win. One should be honest and work for it.
This is the message from FIFA to the world, cheat and don’t get caught and you will be a winner.