Official 2010 World Cup Qualifying Thread

[ONO]

Paul McShane you tosser.

[Slogger]

HAND OF FROG!

[ONO]

Two handballs the dirty bastards.

[hugobomb]

Thierry Henry you cheating bastard!

[Thrilla]

Quite the kick in the balls there.

[The Kraig]

I am so angry. I'm not even Irish! France will burn tonight.

[Whisper]

It's not even accidental, he controls it with the palm of his hand. Cheating French scumbags.

[ONO]

Henry in my eyes will always be remembered for that.

[The Kraig]

Henry in my eyes will always be remembered for that.

Maybe in Ireland. Otherwise, don't be an idiot.

[Crybaby Bunting]

Having quite a few French friends it's probably best for me NOT to go on a semi-racist rant at that CLEAR cheating.

But, that's just ludicrous. Ireland need to win this for justice to prevail, but you know France are going to score another

[ONO]

Lol another clear handball. Referee is a tosser.

[Whisper]

The only good thing about this is France are fucking awful, and will do nothing at the World Cup.

[Whisper]

Richard Dunne is a better man than I am. I wouldn't be hugging Henry after that.

[TCO]

Fuck France. Fuck the ref. Fuck FIFA. Thierry Henry? You can burn in hell my friend, you cheating piece of scum.

[Adam]

How cruel. Awful way to be knocked out...I'm not even Irish and I'm totally gutted. That's gotta be the worst way imaginable to go out. They deserved to win that.

[therockbox]

FIFA will be ecstatic.

[ONO]

The silence of the crowd after the replay says it all.

[RatedR]

Everybody is just overreacting.Yes Henry cheated,but come on,a World Cup place is at stake.Every player would've done that.It's just a part of football.One day they score against your favourite team with a handball and it's disgraceful,the other day your team wins with a dive and you're happy.That's it.

[Hobo]

I'm expecting France to dig up the WC98 players because what they have is no fan-dabi-dozi shakes as a team and Domenech doesn't even bring on Benzema? I'm pretty sure he's just saved his job for another few months.

Sure Ireland lost but a very, very good performance over two legs they were the best side. If some of the players could play at that level on a more regular basis they would've qualified already.

[HailtotheYo]

That was absolute shit. I hope the ref is flown to Ireland and left to fend for himself. Absolute shit.

And wow, Russia ... really ? I wanted to see them in the WC. Champions League is really the only time I get decent exposure to the Russian players. Would've like to have seen Ukraine go in rather than Greece but oh well.