Can anyone name one player who has never cheated, and before you answer please see following things that is cheating

Claiming a corner or throw in when it clearly came of him, pulling or dragging an opponent at a free kick or corner, taking a free kick from wrong place, taking a freekick while the ball is still moving, time wasting, feigning injury, and of course handball or diving,

every last one of those acts take place over and over in game after game by each and every team and every player,

Also its so laughable and so clear that the british media have an anti Arsenal agenda, I have read and watched many items about the Henry handball and not one of them mention he plays for Barcalona, its all ex Arsenal, or Arsenal ledgend, Wenger pupil, France hero, he is a few years with Barcalona now, one would think the media would have spotted this by now, but of course it looks better to them to have a dig at Arsenal as well as getting their own back on Henry, as he was famous for phoning up useless journos who included falsehoods or downright lies about Henry in their match reports or their columns. England in general hate France more than any other nation bar Germany and the media can not stand that Wenger and Henry showed them how football should be played.

Roy Keane told it as it is today, he said that Ireland and the IFA have only themselves to blame, the players froze again when presented with gilt edge chances to score a second, he also pointed out that Irealand were awarded the most dubious of dubious penalties v Georgia in their group to totally change the game in which Ireland came back to win and stay ahead of Georgia, yet not Robbie Keane who dived for the penalty, not the manager, not the IFA, spoke one word about how unfair it was on Georgia, or that the game should be replayed.
Also the France goal only ment it did not go to penalites, Ireland were only level on agg, so please stop all this nonsence of it stopping Ireland from going to the WC, it stopped them from having a shootout to go to the WC, and I’d put more money on France players scoring than the irish players who bottled easy chances during the game, Keane, Duff, Doyle to name three.

By the way I’m Irish and I don’t in the slightest feel cheated, outraged or feel any hate for Henry, he only did what every single player does, and that is look to get away with breaking the rules to their teams advantage, as pointed out by others, almost every Irish fan would and still will celebrate if England go out of the World cup finals to a dodgy decision or handball or offside goal etc, I cheered when Maradona scored in 86(even if at the time I missed the handball, that only made it better when I found out later on).
My biggest gripe over the goal is what the hell was McShane thinking of, why did he not attack the ball and clear it, or why oh why did he let Henry in behind him, also what was Given doing to let the cross beat him, and finally how did Gallas end up standing all alone feet from the goal to knock it in unchallenged, where was the Irish players(bottlers). All the moaning is to cover up poor standards amongst the team and managment and the protest by the Irish government is just a ruse to try and take away attention from the mess the have Ireland in now and from their up coming budget where they are going to cut nearly all social welfare payments, increase tax on the ordianary worker, and go easy on the richer in sociaty.

you’ve gotta love roy keane..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8370327.stm

And in what context does that affect any legendary status for his work at Arsenal?

And why is no one blaming the ref and linesmen for the blindness?

And Platini…..he’s a chump and always will be.

At first sight I was thinking that the linesman couldn’t have seen it either because of the crowded area but in fact… there was no crowd between him and the ball it seems.

Henry is Arsene’s son (his second one being Cesc). I think that’s why he’s getting so much slack. People are just frothing at their mouths at this chance to knock him off his perceived pedestal.

Besides, when you play a game like a do or die affair, what do you honestly expect? The British press is only foaming in the mouth because they harboured a grudge against Henry because he loves Arsenal and Arsenal loves him. If what happened had been against England, the Irish would have had a party all night to celebrate.

What gives the British the right to adopt an holier than thou attitude? Who told them that they had the right to police the game only when it concerns foreigners? “Physician, heal thy self.” British media hacks, remove the logs from your own eyes before you attempt to talk about the specks in the eyes of others.

if keane had done it instead, it would have been fine by the irish fans.

but if an irish player had done it, i am sure that the outcome would have been different from fifa. there is a precedent where a fifa controlled game was replayed after a gross error by the ref.

fifa lost the russian audience last night. i know loads of people over there will still watch it, but no where near as many as would have if russia were in it. they couldnt afford to lose the french market of 65 million compared to irelands 4 million.

anyway, more to the point, two of our defenders played 120 minutes in that match, a nice warmup for the sunderland game.

the irish dream if they think the match will be replay.like Eduardo case, FIFA would open the Pandora box to other team to ask for a replay.you will need 2 year to finish a season with all the match.the only think they can do is ban titi for few match let say first 3 WC match.
and why all this hypocrisy from the hack.if this would have happen between France vs Slovenia nobody would have care