is France qualifying into handball World Cup ?
I watched the 1st half then after France was 1-nil down then I can expect it may go to the penalty shootout.. So I gave up and went to bed . This morning the highlights and morning news commentator using controversial to describe the handball of Thierry Henry but basically even Henry admitted he handled the ball...Well , as long as the referee did not notice , everything was fine.. for France !!!!
Now Thierry is a liar as well as a cheat
What a ghastly way to start my day.
I'm sitting there with my first cup of tea at 8.35 a.m. and he came on my TV screen.
The mediagenic Thierry Henry, a truly gifted superstar of the soundbite, stands in the Mixed Zone after the match and says, "I did handle the ball but I didn't do it on purpose."
LIAR !
WHAT A LIAR YOU ARE !
So Thierry Henry is a liar as well as a cheat. Last night I felt rage and disgust I haven't felt since Maradona in 1986. I didn't know football could still make me so angry.
Thierry, your cheating has touched something deep in me, so deep I thought it had died. I didn't know I could still feel such rage and disgust.
Thierry, you are a sickening cheat and a shameless liar. You're a disgrace to the sport that's made you a multi-millionaire. You're a bottler who has never scored in a final in your entire life and you make me sick. You moaned to French reporters, telling them Zidane had never given you a pass you had scored from. You're so narcissistic that you'll never understand why you are unloved by French football fans. You were the worst Arsenal captain in the club's modern history. The day Wenger sold you, I jumped for joy. Literally, I jumped across the room, punching the air. You care about nothing but your owns stats and your own legacy and this is now your legacy. Last night is your legacy. You'll be remembered as a cheat.
In those two games, in Dublin and Paris, you did nothing helpful, nothing valuable to your team, nothing memorable, except cheat to get the goal that allowed France to qualify for the World Cup.
You think you're so clever, saying: “It was a handball, but I'm not the ref. The ball hit my arm, fell in front of me and I played it. The ref allowed it. That's a question you should ask him.”
Well done, Thierry. You juggled the ball with your left arm, and then with your left hand, you deliberately handled the ball twice, in extra time of a World Cup play-off - but the Swedish ref cheated Ireland, so it's OK ?
I don't say that because I'm half-Irish.
Who does not agree with Trapattoni's assistant Liam Brady, who said of the Irish team, "They really deserved to win, on the 120 minutes, they really deserved to win. It's a shameful day for football, really, when something like that happens."
Nov 19, 2009
hi , persie , I did not feel it's Henry's own fault as it's player instinct to make a bet and see what happens.. We have seen a lot of misjudges in the past and it will happen again and again in future. Maybe the history will give a fair comment 10-15 year later and even Henry will tell his own thought 20 year later..
My own thought is FIFA is the worst dictatorially football authority and in 21st century , even tennis game which has been a kind of sports for noble in 20-30's last century , now is adopting the eagle eye system and the player is allowed to challenge.
But in football world , we can allow some players who always pretend to get hurt and lay down the pitch for 2-3 mins ... I can't see any reason FIFA still declined to consider those TV replay which even the blind can overrule those misjudges in less than 60 seconds.. anyway life must go on.
I think we might feel differently towards Henry, as opposed to the sea of media who immediately calls him a cheat, because he played for us for a long time, and all the while he has been a fair player. A lot of times he could have dived in the penalty box, but he chose to play on. This is the Thierry in my mind, definitely not a fraud, not a cheat. He did this thing just within a split second. He wanted so desperately for a goal, not for himself, but for his nation. Well, I could be biased, but I feel for Thierry. He should not be singled out as a culprit; this incident involves a lot of people and emotions.