the hand of le god

[spondulick]

what did you think of tonights game france v republic,especially the hand ball by terry henry leading up to french equaliser.

[lfc4life]

absolute disgrace but ireland lost the game themselves

[spondulick]

true they had enough chances in normal time, was not very impressed with french side

[ghostfox]

the criticism henry is getting is pathetic.
im sad the irish didnt go through, but every and i mean every single professional player on the planet would of done the same.
it was great to see henry admit to it afterwards, shows what an honest guy he is.

no blame on the man himself or any other player if they had done it.
its the ref and the linesman job to see these things.

if robbie keane had done it the other end and the irish went through, not a lot would of been said.

thats the beauty of football.

[dctyper]

why is it every one says "oh never mind, what bad luck. they should of put their chances away well done france"

wtf. i think we are missing the point.

henry cheated!!! he is a cheat, he should be asshamed. he should be asked what example he is leaving for his children to follow?

oh its ok kids just cheat!

never mind ireland should have put their chances away. at least they played fair.

i feel strongly about cheating, im a liverpool fan and i thing ngog is a cheat. not proud of him at all. anyone caught cheating should be banned for at least 6 months. that would stop the ~~~~ing crybabies who cant win fairly

dc

[CHRISTOF]

~~~~ING cheats!!!!!!!

[skegsagypsy]

the criticism henry is getting is pathetic.
im sad the irish didnt go through, but every and i mean every single professional player on the planet would of done the same.
it was great to see henry admit to it afterwards, shows what an honest guy he is.

no blame on the man himself or any other player if they had done it.
its the ref and the linesman job to see these things.

if robbie keane had done it the other end and the irish went through, not a lot would of been said.

thats the beauty of football.

I've seen some sh?t in my time on the net but that post takes the biscuit ! Henry is a cheat and should be ashamed, because Henry admitted it hes a great guy, are you ~~~~in serious, he could hardly deny what he done, could he ? As for the Robbie Kean comment, Keane had a chance to go down for a pen during the game, he didn't ! Why ???? because he's an honest player, NOT a cheatin cnut like Henry ! It was a pathetic thing to do from a world class footballer ! That type of cheating ruined the career of another world class player, heres hoping it does the same to Henry !

[McMav]

Apparently Henry learnt how to cheat from Gerrard.

[ss0000]

First of all, the whole of Rep of Ireland should be very proud of what their team achieved. They were unbeaten in their group and outplayed France on their own patch.
I think what Henry did was instinctive and to be honest it could have been anyone. Because Fifa/Uefa/FA dont do anything about these incidents the players think they can get away with it more often than not. Still that does not mean Henry should be defended and whoever comes out with the comment 'thats part of football' dont know jack about it, when did that become 'part of football'!

Henry should be thrown the book and not just him, every player that dives or cheats in any way should be, even if he's a non-league player or the best player in the world.

[leotheloin]

[QUOTE
=ghostfox;344770]the criticism henry is getting is pathetic HENRY

[hideous.ape]

As an Irishman I'm sick to my stomach this morning. Of all the ways to miss out on a World Cup. The seeding of the Play-Offs was a disgrace in itself.

Over two legs we created enough chances to win four International matches and its our fault we only took one of those chances. I mean we must of had four one on ones with the French keeper, O'Shea's miss, Doyles missed header, loads of other chances and we still couldn't score. That game should have been over long before Henry's basketball skills!

You make your own luck and we didn't take the chances we created!

Great effort by the lads...roll on the Euro's...where no doubt we'll get shafted again by been lumped into one of the toughest groups. Just once could we get a weak group and qualify as group winners...play-offs suck donkey balls!!!

[leotheloin]

there has to be a rematch this happened before in 2005 cant remember the 2 teams involved so lets see what the goveren body fifa will do.

[maca]

Apparently Henry learnt how to cheat from Gerrard.

gerrard ?.....

[hideous.ape]

there has to be a rematch this happened before in 2005 cant remember the 2 teams involved so lets see what the goveren body fifa will do.

Nothing will happen...if this was Outer Mongolia v Inner Mongolia sure a replay would be sanctioned, it wouldn't be a tough decision to make. This involves one of the cash generating nations for FIFA...attendences, TV Revenue, lots of top level French FIFA and UEFA executives.

[McMav]

gerrard ?.....

Yup delib hand ball or dive both cheats.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tphY3kX-m0"]YouTube- Gerrard Dive Vs Andorra[/ame]