World Cup Champ Cheats?

Well everyone who never had an interest in soccer knows who Henry is at this stage, but I have to ask myself, why should we care.

The Irish team had umpteen chances to win the game and didnt take them. In fact, this was the fist match I have painstakingly watched in about 2 years that Ireland actually tried to win, so we have nobody to blame only the team. And no, dont blame the different coaches over the last few years, they are not on the pitch. Also, if the team were good enough they would not have had this nailbiter of a last-ditch-attempt qualifier anyway. Then again, I have been telling everyone that all soccer is, is 22 puffs jogging around a pitch pretending to be injured. And lets not forget the traitors who wont play for their country because they dont like the management and abondon their team and loyal fans because the other players pitch is greener - Roy Keane. It is an honor to play for your country/county in whatever competition it may be, lets start thinking about the kids and create a future for them instead of this whinging, diving, cheating world we live in.


But there is a silver lining, we can now ignore soccer for a few years and concentrate on the wonderful game of rugby who manage to use a TV ref, call correctly "off the ball" incidents, penalise when necessary but above all have the much vaunted "Fair Play". The only way to get soccer played fairly is to have the charades refereed better and get rid of all the money. Ask yourself who had the most to gain - oh ya, thats was Henry, he got a bonus of something like €440,000 for that handball...

Ireland, get a little perspective and herald those true stars we have, to name just a couple - Mary Robinson & Brian O Driscoll, lets build on what is great and boycott the crap.

Thats my tuppence worth

John Ryan