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What is the general consensus on the Thierry Henry handball incident..
Big stakes but very poor form in my view..

He got away with it. Play On.

In a game like cricket, the player would've gone to the officiating adjudicator and said that he'd done the wrong thing (dropped the catch etc). This highlights to me, the lack of ethics of the player for mine.

Absolute Disgrace!

The way he celebrated that goal pissed me right off.

RoosterMarty wrote:The way he celebrated that goal pissed me right off.

Agreed....Used to like Thierry Henry but he's lost all respect from me and probably the football community of the world.

Typical frog

Jimmy_041 wrote:Typical frog

we agree on something Jimmy

Would you expect anything more from a soccer player?

very poor form for mine.

How a ref didn't see it is beyond me.

wycbloods wrote:Would you expect anything more from a soccer player?

very poor form for mine.

How a ref didn't see it is beyond me.

Would we expect a more ignorant comment than that?

Are all muslims terrorists too?

Are all Germans anti-semitic too?

Yes it was a piss poor incident and yes the ref was a disgrace, but you can't just label all soccer players cheats.

he would look good in a liverpool strip with those hand-ball skills

absolute cheat but he got away with it

will have to live with

hand of frog for all his life now

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:he would look good in a liverpool strip with those hand-ball skills

absolute cheat but he got away with it

will have to live with

hand of frog for all his life now

The Riddler wrote:Absolute Disgrace!

What more would you expect from an ex Arsenal player?

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:will have to live with

hand of frog for all his life now

Absolute quality. That'll stick round here!

Dirty French ****.

Hope the appeal gets looked at and the result overturned.

Then I hope the Irish smash 'em.....

Typical of the criminal element that plays,watches,coaches and runs this appalling 'sport'.
Bringing the world cup here, must be resisted by any means necessary.

Shows how much of a JOKE the so called 'world sport' is when just 1 incident accounts for the entire score in 90 minutes for a team (1 goal) thats ulitimately determines their entry to a world cup. Same goes for the 'Beach Ball' incident a month ago in the EPL.
Take a look at the pathetic scorelines from the world cup qualifiers the other day, 1-0, 1-0, 1-0 0-1 etc etc etc. What thrilling stuff NOT ! I mean it's just PATHETIC.
Change the stupid rules, make the goals bigger or whatever it takes to allow more goals and so results like 8-5, 6-4, 10-8 are more typical so when a side totally flukes a goal like the Beach ball incident or cheats like Henry did, it doesn't have such an impact on the game and is less likely to influence the result.

Take the AFL grand final for example when the ridiculous scenario occurred when St Kilda scored that double goal but fortunately it didn't cost Geelong victory bcos 1 goal in a game of AFL only accounts for about 3-4% of goals scored in a game where as in soccer 1 goal accounts for about 50% of scoring on most occassions so an UNFAIR goal in soccer will just about ALWAYS have a bearing on the result.

Would have to disagree with you on all points there Jim. The greatest aspect of this game is that so much can hinge on one error, one piece of skill, one moment. This is what makes the game so passionate.

Being the most popular sport in the world must mean it is doing something right. If it is action action action you want maybe watch Futsol or even 20/20 cricket...

Well said Swoop

Saying that tho i think technology could be used in some instances...mainly to clarify if the ball crossed the goal line or not.

Heres an interesting profile on Terry Henry...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =326715091