March tomorrow as Henry calls for a replay!
There is a FAIR PLAY = REPLAY march tomorrow, from Landsdowne Road to the French Embassy, kick off 2 PM.
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!!!
Meanwhile the pressure for a replay continues to build. The man at the centre of the storm, Theirry Henry has called for a reply (hat tip Pierre) as have a senior French government minister and David Ginola.
Adds: FIFA invalidates Uzbekistan-Bahrain result; match to be replayed. Slightly different circumstances, but perhaps letter of the law vs the spirit of the law?
It’s only a fucking game, kids.
This is what’s happening in the real world, not that many boyz would give a shit:
1.02 billion people across the world are hungry.
Every day nearly 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That’s one child every five seconds.
So why not go to your MLA/TD/MP and protest that?
- BRING FLAGS, BANNERS AND WEAR BLACK
- CONTACT YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATIONS TO MAKE THEM AWARE
The way to separate the men from the boyz.
Is the French Embassy to be burned down down?
A lot of posters on here are obviously not ROI fans or have a passing interest in supporting them from NI. That’s fine. But please spare us your pontificating about “getting over it”, “Duff would have done the same”, “millions starving”, “MOPERY”, “happens every week” etc. If you want to turn the other cheek whenever someone pulls a fast one on you, that’s your business but save us your lecturing on how we should act in regards to Monsieur Henry and his “sportsmanship”. All we’re doing is marching to an embassy to protest something that was blatantly unfair to us (and upset quite a few people overseas). That’s all. No big deal so don’t fret over it. Less civlized fans would have burnt Paris to the ground Wednesday night.
To the tune of the hokey-cokey
He put his right hand inm left hand out
In out, in out, shake it all about
He palmed the ball to Gallas
And he gave it a clout
and that put the republic out.
Oooooh terry terry Henry
Oooooh willy willy Gallas
Oh silly swedish linesmen
They put the republic out out out
Less civlized fans would have burnt Paris to the ground Wednesday night.
Brings back bad memories..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_European_Cup_Final
But someday I hope to get over it.
Actaullym the Sun weighed in with The Hand of Frog on its front page. They gave it huge coverage, no doubt hoping to get on the anti French bandwagon in South Africa.
As regards the Orange Neo Nazis: remember their treatment of Wayne McCullough from the Shankill. Gutted because he got to the Olympics via the Tricoliur option and too smal minded to rise above their own key beliefs (Shankill Butchers, George Best and the ‘Gers).
Paisley Lives
That last post is shocking, the stench of sectarianism in your posts is getting worse.
the future’s bright, the future’s orange,
He put his right hand inm left hand out
In out, in out, shake it all about
He palmed the ball to Gallas
And he gave it a clout
and that put the republic out.
Oooooh terry terry Henry
Oooooh willy willy Gallas
Oh silly swedish linesmen
They put the republic out out out
Not bad but I don’t think Shakespeare has anything to worry about
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Driftwood,
I feel your pain. That Leeds team were once in a lifetime. Sad to see them decline.
No doubt the jokes will be coming in thick and fast:
What does FIFA stand for?
Federation of French Inglorious ‘Andballers.
And there is a multitide of potential for jokes about Henry being a GAA player.
As Rory points out it’s the FF’ers and the bankers who fucked the country over more than Henry could ever dream of. Yes, the result was disappointing, but shit happens. A lot of things in life aren’t fair, but ’twas always so and always will be.
QED.
so how did the big march go then?
check it out