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View Poll Results: Which team would you like Ireland to face in the World Cup qualifer playoffs?
France 2 16.67%
Russia 0 0%
Greece 9 75.00%
Portugal 1 8.33%
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Unread 19-11-2009, 15:28   #21
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this is not just a matter for Irish soccer, its a matter for all footballfans around the world. either FIFA or the french soccer team has to come up with a fair solution - replay, concede in grace, whatever.

the fair play campaign should apply lots of pressure until somthing happens
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Unread 19-11-2009, 17:31   #22
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sure. We can replay Argentina-England 1986 too.

Let's move on. Given the state of the economy we might as well consider it just another cutback.
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Unread 19-11-2009, 18:08   #23
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"lets move on" - to where?
just for once lets stand up instead of "moving on" from one "move one" to the other. otherwise this match will still be rememberd in 2035 as the 1986 or even the 1966 "wembley goal" game is still in the minds of soccer fans today.
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Unread 19-11-2009, 20:16   #24
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Well, the 1966 goal didn't decide the match...
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Unread 19-11-2009, 20:27   #25
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Well, the 1966 goal didn't decide the match...
well thats kind of true, was a 4:2 in the end, but the last goal was irregular as well because there were already fans on the pitch when it was scored
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Unread 20-11-2009, 09:07   #26
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now that I think about it, maybe we should have the 1966 final replayed as well, with the original players (if still available)
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Unread 20-11-2009, 14:55   #27
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ls/8370327.stm

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"If I'd been there in the dressing room after the game, I wouldn't be talking about the handball. I'd focus on why the defenders didn't clear it. They should've cleared it. I'd be more annoyed with my defenders and my goalkeeper than Thierry Henry. How can you let the ball bounce in your six-yard box? How can you let Thierry Henry get goal-side of you? If the ball goes into the six-yard box, where the hell is my goalkeeper? These are skills and lessons you learn as a schoolboy"
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"There was one match against Georgia where Ireland got a penalty and it was one of the worst decisions I've ever seen which changed the whole course of the game. I don't remember the FAI after the game saying we should give them a replay."
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Unread 20-11-2009, 15:30   #28
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Default Fair Play = Replay Protest Tomorrow!

OFFICIAL PROTEST MARCH TO FRENCH EMBASSY

SATURDAY 21ST NOVEMBER - 2PM

We are protesting against FIFA's decision not to allow a replay of the France vs Ireland Qualifier. We are calling on the French Football Federation to join our calls for Fair Play to prevail.

We hope at the very least we will highlight to the issue of the need for Video Referreeing in games of this magnitude.

Please Join Us!!!

- BRING FLAGS, BANNERS AND WEAR GREEN

- CONTACT YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATIONS TO MAKE THEM AWARE

- ENJOY THE DAY!!!

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Unread 20-11-2009, 17:27   #29
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Get a grip will you! At 2pm on Saturday I will be in the pub with just half an hour to go until a real match kicks off - England (Jonny Wilkinson) v the All Blacks. Football is only for girls so instead of marching change sports and take up a real one!
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Unread 20-11-2009, 17:39   #30
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Get a grip will you! At 2pm on Saturday I will be in the pub with just half an hour to go until a real match kicks off - England (Jonny Wilkinson) v the All Blacks. Football is only for girls so instead of marching change sports and take up a real one!
So where do you position "rubgy football"?
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Unread 20-11-2009, 17:54   #31
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Wasn't Rugby "invented" by William Webb Ellis committing the first "handball"?

No wonder the French are good at rugby!

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Unread 20-11-2009, 19:05   #32
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So where do you position "rubgy football"?
OK let's not nit-pick - I'll settle for calling it Rugger!
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Unread 28-11-2009, 00:24   #33
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Let's move on.
Only on this mb.

Elsewhere and justifiably so, we'll still be whinging/moaning/complaining about what happened in 40 years time.
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Unread 30-11-2009, 15:47   #34
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Oh God, this is just getting embarrassing ...

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/..._blatters.html
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Unread 30-11-2009, 15:54   #35
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Remember how Denmark got into the European campionship in 1992, they went on win!
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Unread 30-11-2009, 22:52   #36
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Remember how Denmark got into the European campionship in 1992, they went on win!
Are you hoping for a war in France?
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Unread 01-12-2009, 02:01   #37
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Oh God, this is just getting embarrassing ...

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/..._blatters.html
No more embarrassing as a country needing a deliberate double handball to progress to the finals.

Denmark were given Yugoslavia's place at Euro '92 with a week's notice, as they finished runners-up in the qualification group, that included Northern Ireland.
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Unread 01-12-2009, 09:14   #38
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No more embarrassing as a country needing a deliberate double handball to progress to the finals.
controversial incidents happen in football matches all the time - its tough, but we've got to get over it. We weren't winning the match anyway.

They showed the press conference on the news - Sepp Blatter with a big grin on his face saying we had "humbly" asked could we be the 33rd team and the gathered press pack bursting into laughter - the FAI are humiliating us now.
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Unread 01-12-2009, 17:16   #39
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We weren't winning the match anyway.
What are you ranting about? Sure weren't we 100% guaranteed to go through, hadn't the ref just decided he was going to go home early, count our goal as double, and skip the last 18 minutes of the match and penalties, only seconds before the handball cruelly denied our rightful place among the world's elite?
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controversial incidents happen in football matches all the time - its tough, but we've got to get over it. We weren't winning the match anyway.

They showed the press conference on the news - Sepp Blatter with a big grin on his face saying we had "humbly" asked could we be the 33rd team and the gathered press pack bursting into laughter.
So what? How many of the press pack had their country dumped out of the WC by a handball?

Controversial incidents happen in football, fair enough. But any player can control a ball with his hand and set up his teammate for a tap in. The reason any player doesn't do it, is because it is illegal.

I was at the game. There were 5 offences in that passage of play, 5 injustices that referees/linesmen at the highest level of the game are trained to spot and act upon. The fact that none of them were is unforgiveable. So no, I won't "get over" it. We'll still be complaining about it for years and years to come, as we have every right to do.
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