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i was referring to the fact whether it was intentional or instinct as previously mentioned.
It's obvious that it was not a case of ball to hand.
 
Henry clearly knew what he was doing and cheated, and with hindsight I think he will look back on it with shame and regret, hes always been a decent bloke imho..

gutted for the Irish as they gave it everything and made the French look bland...
 
If you read the uefa and fifa match reports:

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/worldcup/fixturesresults/round=15219/match=2001478/report=rp.html

After Anelka had spurned a header akin to that missed by Doyle, Keane passed up an opportunity of his own, running out of room having attempted to round Lloris. And so came extra time where in the eighth minute a hopeful France free-kick found its way to Henry, who squared for Gallas to head the goal that takes his country to South Africa.
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http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1136804.html#gallas+breaks+irish+hearts

Five minutes later, France skipper Thierry Henry won the match for the hosts when his angled pass amid a goalmouth scramble was met by the head of Wiliam Gallas. The goal enabled France to qualify and avoid a repeat of their humiliating failure, at the hands of Bulgaria, to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals.
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- glad to see people have given this article a 1.3/5 rating.

The fifa one is worse since they go into much more detail and yet omit the handling of the ball throughout. It also reads more like an article rather than the uefa article which just states what happened. Looks like fifa will pretend a handball didn't happen. They even disabled the comments for the article after people started talking about the handball.
 
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So what he's saying in that quote is that he is perfectly willing to cheat just as long as he doesn't get caught. Sadly there's too much of that in sport these days.
 
When are they doing to introduce video replays to football? I hear people complain that it'll slow the game down, as if people faking injuries every time someone gets within 5 feet of them already doesn't do that. If anything i think replays would prevent people faking injuries as more people would be getting carded since the ref could see the evidence on the large screens stadiums have.

Less mistakes, fewer poofs falling to the ground dramatically clutching their ankle or knee (lets face it 99% of the time its one of those even if they get hit on the head). I think football needs to come out of the dark ages and get with the times in that respect.
 
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The above fifa article I linked to has now been edited to remove any mention of Henry, and they still won't allow comments on that one article.

Fifa/Uefa really don't want controversy over this. They started it all off by seeding these play-offs . Instead of having this play-off seeding rules added at the beginning of qualification, they only introduce it once larger teams come into danger of not qualifying. France, Portugal, Russia/Germany.

I agree with others that it is absurd to not use technology which is advancing at a fast pace.
 
Its a shame, and still a complete joke we don't have video replay, it would simply eliminate cheating. I watch American football now and then, I simply don't see ANY cheating that isn't dealt with immediately, but realistically theres next to no real cheating anyway nothing, video replay is almost exclusive used for incidents where they simply couldn't see things in real time, introduce video replays, all cheating is caught and within weeks people would stop cheating.

The thing is, he wasn't the only cheat that night, plenty of shirts were pulled at freekicks and corners, from both sides. I still think Ireland did some stupid stuff just didn't get anything from it, there was one point Doyle did the CB , the CB was down, 5 yards from the ball he could have run the ball at goal and tried to score but he was more interested in throwing himself at the CB to make it look like a foul, both sides did several things like that.

LIkewise Given did catch Anelka didn't he, he moved his hand and brushed his foot, very hard in a split second to see how much he might have grabbed his foot, looked rather like he was tempted, tried and pulled back at the last second but still think there was contact. That would be given as a penalty more often than not.

Not quite sure where people are saying Ireland were the better team throughout, the 1st leg I thought France were better, 2nd leg, Ireland first half, France most of extra time and well, from when Govou was on. Frankly I thought both sides were poor, neither will do anything in the world cup and France's manager is beyond a joke, no Benzema, Malouda coming on, ridiculous formation that suits none of their players.

Not sure why people talk about new technology, video replays are old, have been used in many sports for decades, its not new, its simple and will improve the officiating of every single game out there, not to mention it will simply stop most players cheating most of the time in the first place.

If I was an Irish fan I'd probably be happy we can go out amid controversy rather than go to the world cup and be ripped to shreds. France frankly will do what they did last time, be pathetic and embarassingly poor and probably not pass the group stage with the manager picking idiotic teams and formations. Now the world will likely laugh at France, which to me seems better than them laughing at Ireland, no?
 
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A few thoughts:

- No sympathy for the Irish, they mostly wouldn't be feeling any for the English in the same situation.

- Henry isn't the only cheat on the planet, the officials should have spotted the foul and given a free kick.

- Video technology needs to be introduced.

- FIFA and UEFA are run by Frenchmen so it's no great shock that they're failing to recognise that they cheated their way to the finals, however cheating should be judged by the severity of the actual action not by the effect that it causes.

- Henry should be careful to never set foot in Ireland again!
 
Interesting on SSN this morning.

They have a clip of Henry clearly (in my opinion) mouthing "I cheated" when he is sat next to Richard Dunne at the end of the game.

Dunne has also come out and said Henry told him he had cheated...

Oh and LOL at Robbie Keanes comments about Blatter & Platini, that's comedy gold right there.
 
Once again the other factors in a game are being overlooked.

What the hell is the number 13 Irish player (don't know his name) who was marking Henry in the box doing ?

Watch the slow motion again and you see him looking at the ball going past him but he makes no attempt to to clear the ball , even though it's no more than a foot away from him when it goes past and also lets Henry get away from him, what is all that about ?

How the hell was Gallas allowed the freedom of Paris in the SIX YARD BOX TO SCORE from the resulting cross from Henry's juggling skill.

If only Keane scored when he was through on goal in the second half to kill the game completely.

Henry did cheat, but I bet you 99% of people would have done the same if it resulted in their national side going to the world cup.
 
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