Comments on: What would you do? http://houseofgerrish.com/2009/11/20/what-would-you-do/ Devouring ideas Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:37:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jules Ballester http://houseofgerrish.com/2009/11/20/what-would-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Jules Ballester Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:14:01 +0000 http://houseofgerrish.com/?p=927#comment-44 Dick - why did you tell the ref it wasn't a pen? Dick – why did you tell the ref it wasn’t a pen?

]]> By: Matt http://houseofgerrish.com/2009/11/20/what-would-you-do/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Matt Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:56:14 +0000 http://houseofgerrish.com/?p=927#comment-41 It's a tough one. You're 32 and have one world cup left in you - the pinnacle of any career. Injury time, 80,000 home fans, 10 desperate teammates, a sudden rush of blood (and some useless Irish defending..) We all know Henry is a good person. I admire his ongoing affection and respect for Arsenal. He clearly has a decent perspective on things and I'm sure he has a long and distinguished career ahead of him in football management. Plus football greats seem immune to criticism on the long-run - Maradonna's Hand of God, Zizou's headbut on Materazzi, and now Le Hand of God - it almost enhances their mythical status. It was the officials' fault, and Fifa obviously would prefer France in the World Cup. But then again the Irish had an incredibly dubious penalty awarded to them against Georgia that set up a key victory and their play-off position. The FIA never complained about that! What goes around comes around! The irony is that Irish luck wasn't even needed that game - they outplayed the French team and should have wrapped it up before the Henry incident. Roy Keane is a bit of a wanker, but there is a lot of sense in his views, expressed in the Ipswich press room yesterday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8370497.stm It’s a tough one. You’re 32 and have one world cup left in you – the pinnacle of any career. Injury time, 80,000 home fans, 10 desperate teammates, a sudden rush of blood (and some useless Irish defending..)

We all know Henry is a good person. I admire his ongoing affection and respect for Arsenal. He clearly has a decent perspective on things and I’m sure he has a long and distinguished career ahead of him in football management. Plus football greats seem immune to criticism on the long-run – Maradonna’s Hand of God, Zizou’s headbut on Materazzi, and now Le Hand of God – it almost enhances their mythical status.

It was the officials’ fault, and Fifa obviously would prefer France in the World Cup. But then again the Irish had an incredibly dubious penalty awarded to them against Georgia that set up a key victory and their play-off position. The FIA never complained about that! What goes around comes around! The irony is that Irish luck wasn’t even needed that game – they outplayed the French team and should have wrapped it up before the Henry incident.

Roy Keane is a bit of a wanker, but there is a lot of sense in his views, expressed in the Ipswich press room yesterday:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8370497.stm

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