Arsenal - Henry is a cheating bounder

[sasguru]

Bugger we're out, thanks to that cheating b'tard Henry.

That is indeed true and a shame. My sympathies ....

[Doggy Styles]

Ireland were better than France, they just ran out of steam. From what I remember they missed the four best chances of the game while 1-0 up (Duff, Keane twice, O'Shea).

The only consolation from the result, as an England fan, is I'll feel more confident against that French side in the world cup than against Ireland.

[snaw]

Hmm,

Opening that 2nd bottle of wine wasn't such a great idea it seems ..

[stingman123]

I would like to hear Mr Platini's view on the "goal" for France

Fair play eh?

[oracleslave]

Hmm,

Opening that 2nd bottle of wine wasn't such a great idea it seems ..

I did the same last night. Combined with the chilli pizza I had I am spending quality time in trap 2.

[Pondlife]

Hmm,

Opening that 2nd bottle of wine wasn't such a great idea it seems ..

We've all done it. Have you checked your sent messages on your phone yet.

[minestrone]

I had about 8 beers last night. sasguru will come in here later and tell us all off for being naughty boys.

Still, an absolute joke of a decision to give that goal.

[BoredBloke]

Ireland were robbed. Henry didn't just handle the ball, he did it twice. Once to stop it going out of play and once to knock it onto his foot. Add the 2 offside players at the start of the move and it's a real tulipty way to go out of the competition. However, I know if it had been an England player we'd probably be saying that we got away with it, but really, at this level the officials need to be better than that

[Swiss Tony]

Arsenal lost their integrity when they lost their Englishness.

Out of curiosity who do you support? Not many premiership sides by now who don’t have international (as in not English) players.

Defiantly was a hand ball, don’t understand why FIFA do not have a video ref for these scenarios. I understand that they think it would slow the game down if every challenge was questioned etc but how about only penalty and goals to be double checked. Wouldn’t take much time and would be done by the time the players have done their victory lap tra la la etc

Equally a 3 match ban for cheating to be imposed after the game if indeed the ref has missed anything, I suppose like the citing system in Rugby. Wonder what a 10 minute sin bin would do for yellow cards as well (not sure that it’s a great idea in footie but just a thought)

[minestrone]

There not another English club who have embraced the foreign game as much as Arsenal and with that they have imported many of the problems that used to be blamed on foreigner footballers. As well as being a very dirty team Arsenal are a team that do have a strong habit of cheating and their foreign scrotum faced manager is to blame for that.