FIFA to cave in on replay request?

[consultant]

Originally Posted by Utopian Hermit Monk

Bono
Delaney
Keane
Bertie
Cowen
O'Dea
Healy-Rae
The Bishops
etc., etc., etc.!!

The whole feckin' lot of them are like characters from Father Ted!


(So maybe it's time to just calm down, sit back, and enjoy the show? )



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That sums it up.

[merle haggard]

i really really really am beginning to hate this bloody awful country .

[merle haggard]

Originally Posted by nemo me impune lacessit

You've no chance of employment over there!
Apparently the NINA posters are making a comeback due to the prejudice suffered by the Polish over here..........

ah yes , the famous posters . Apparently theres also a special coating applied to them that makes them impossible to photograph . Not that they have any cameras in poland mind.

[Gadfly]

Priceless.

Gillette has edited their "Champions" ad so that Henry is no longer handling the football. Good to know that they are finally making a stand for honesty and transparency!

Don't know how to cut and past the image, but the before and after is visible through the link.

Off The Post off the post Gillette does its best to disassociate itself from Thierry Henry’s handball

[Interista]

Gillette has edited their "Champions" ad so that Henry is no longer handling the football.

Have they decided what to do with Tiger 'my wife rescued me with the golf club she just happened to be carrying at 2.30AM" Woods yet?

[jmayo]

Originally Posted by orbit

I agree. Looking at that clip again, Blatter is really twisting the knife there. As he correctly points out, every other country that narrowly failed to qualify (eg Costa Rica, apparently) are just as entitled to "humbly" request to be put in. Ouch.

Roy Keane must have a grin on his face tonight, the length of the M1.

Blatter is one scummy political operator and used this as a way of making us look like a laughing stock. Of course we presnted the opportunity on a platter.
When dealing with him the FAI should have brought in bertie.
They would speak the same language.

Originally Posted by Thranduil

Yes but we must bear in mind that FIFA were rightly embarrassed by the whole affair, it was close to scandalous and yet they must find a way to defuse the controversy while keeping their seriously questionable methods in place (including, including the change in seeding half way through), this laughing and mocking Ireland could be seen as his politician's way of deflecting blame and unwanted attention from the embarrassment FIFA has suffered. Not only was Ireland blatantly cheated in extra time (and consider for example all the fans who pay their money at the gates, and the effort from the players, it's a big deal for them) and that one of FIFA's favourites, a money-spinning superstar was involved... It looked very bad for them then...

They want it to just go away but the likes of Blatter is like a little emperor and possibly feels personally slighted by the incident and angry at any probity, like a little Caligula he lashes out at the perceived object of his displeasure, the pesky little country that accidentally was involved in showing up his organisation for the sack of corrupt bull ******************** that it is.

Very true.

Originally Posted by Interista

Have they decided what to do with Tiger 'my wife rescued me with the golf club she just happened to be carrying at 2.30AM" Woods yet?

The offical line will be that he scratched his face when for comparison purposes he tried out a Wilkinson Sword razor.

He then fled the house in shame before his wife and children saw the after affects.
His wife heard the car crash and grabbed one of the millions of old golf clubs that are always lying around the house, driveway, lawn etc.

Or maybe they can find some way to blame the FAI or just the Irish.
It might all be Padraig Harringtons fault and his evil way of becoming world no. 1 ?

[merle haggard]

Originally Posted by jmayo

Blatter is one scummy political operator and used this as a way of making us look like a laughing stock. Of course we presnted the opportunity on a platter.

in all honesty he didnt make us look a laughing stock , we managed that one ourselves . Regardless of who was head honcho at FIFA this would completely disgrace any country .

When dealing with him the FAI should have brought in bertie.
They would speak the same language.

we'd only be more of a laughing stock reminding people this man was elected taoiseach repeatedly , on none other than Eoghan Harris personal recommendation too . Where do you go from there only to national humiliation in every field of endeavour ? We shouldnt be at all surprised things like this happen to us the way this entire country has been behaving and thinking .

And the FIFA request might even have been his idea for all we know . Chance your arm for a dig out might have been advice offered . His mate Bono certainly seemed to think it was good idea .
Clever people FIFA , countrys been through an awful time apparently .

Im of the opinion maybe the people of this country actually needed to see the world laughing at them . Mightnt have done any harm in that regard. If your going to be embarassed about something then the logical thing would be not to fecking do it in the first place . Seems thats a lesson lost on the FAI and a few others

[Interista]

The offical line will be that he scratched his face when for comparison purposes he tried out a Wilkinson Sword razor.

LOL!!!

Just having a shave at 2.30 in the morning, as you do...

[merle haggard]

if only his wife was running the FAI

[jelporgotbanned]

Get over it fools, Ireland lost because they were CRAP !