It Was Instinct Not Delibrate What Do You Want Him To Do Tell The Ref No And Then His Country Dont Go To The World Cup.

Im Half Irish But I Dont Think He’s A Cheat He Did What He Needed To Do To Win.Good To See Gallas Make Keane Cry .
1-Arsenal
2-England
3-Ireland

On a positive note, we’ve got Denilson, Fabianski, Traore and Vela back! Not bad at all! And all in all, Gibbs and RvP cud have been worse so I guess we’ve not done too badly all in all over the last 2 weeks!

@Wills,

Lad I like the attitude, I honestly can see anyones point if we were beat 6 – 0 on the night and didn’t play but when the ref doesn’t book Anelka for diving and then that happens, I was kinda wondering are we watchin a different match to everyone else…The ref even said it definitely was not a handball to one of the irish players…I am just disappointed in Henry, as you said he was an honest man and then he did that…I was more annoyed with his celebrations like he was YES i got away with it…

All in all, we will have to move on cuz neither Mister Blatter or Platini will organise the game to be replayed, you know you will get a different France team on the night and probably the same result…we should have taken our chances, unfortunately it came back to haunt us…

@Marc Callan, I feel for you mate as an Irish supporter. I know that when England didn’t qualify for the last Euros, I was gutted, but knew that we weren’t good enough over the qualifying games, however if Eduardo or any other Croatian player and done what Henry did last night and that caused us not to qualify, I can imagine I’d be furious!!

I’m quarter French and am honestly very disappointed at the way they went through last night. I’m glad Henry came out and admitted he’d done wrong, but as a life long Arsenal fan, who chanted Henry’s name when he came onto the pitch against Blackburn earlier in the season, I feel a bit let down that he went off and celebrated and didn’t go to the referee to say it was handball.

I remember him going down in the box during his time at Arsenal and actually getting up and telling the ref he wasn’t fouled, rather like Arshavin did against Pompey last year. Maybe this part of his sportsmanship isn’t there anymore, or maybe he was just desperate to play in SA next summer.

He’s going to get a lot of shit from the press, but I think he knows that and is expecting it. Maybe if he responds to the requests from the Irish players for the game to be replayed and says he would welcome it, then he’ll earn some of his respect back. However, if the game is replayed, and the Irish loose outright in 90 minutes, they debate will still continue and people will just say the outcome would’ve been different on the night.

At least it’s going to be a big push for the use of video replays. One could’ve been used then, or even after the game. I’m sure they’re will be some kind of request from people for a video appeal system, they could’ve had one after the game last night and made the players settle it on a penalty shoot out, which I know no one likes, but is the fairest way at the end of the day.

I wish all the Irish players the best of luck with qualifying for the next WC and Euros, they’ve done a fantastic job, in a difficult group and deserved a lot more than they got.

Maybe they’ll get France in the Euro 2012 qualifiers and get the chance to get their own back!!

Henry’s still a great player mate. That will never change in my eyes. Same as Maradona, despite the ’86 World Cup and Ronaldo despite the ’06 World Cup.

But I really feel for you lads.

Also anyone saying any one of us would have done it for the WC, look at Maradona and tell me you can say ahh fair enough, you did it for the WC…I much rather not go and be honest with myself than go and know I cheated…remember this guy is role model for kids and he is just saying, if you can get away with it then do it!

Hi lads,

After sleeping an unrestless sleep last night knowing my beloved country was robbed of “the incident”, I cannot look at henry the same way again…he cheated as he realised (maybe not conciously) that France may go out (as like Russia did last night)…I’m sorry lads, he was a legend for Arsenal but he will forever be remembered in my eyes as someone that will do anything (cheating) to win a match…Some would think my wording is harsh but to handle it once can be seen as accidental, controlling it twice is on purpose…Dunne didn’t see the incident last night as he was fouled in the lead up hence Henry sitting with him, if it was Shay Given, I think words would have been said…i understand all of us make mistakes but what he did is like me defrauding my company of money and saying well I’m not the one in charge…honestly I am gutted…

sorry for ireland, they have shown that they are no pushovers

no arshavin for world cup! Gutted.
Any injury worries for the other big teams? I’ll hate to see that we are the only ones picking up injuries in these breaks. Are we weak?