French cheats !!!
 

hi all
See the french are up to there old tricks again ( :nope::nope:)
Watching the soccer over here in Europe, which i am a supporter off and all ball games of skill and fair play, but as usual the french decide they cant win fair so use THE HAND OF GOD trick, which i know the guys from the UK will know from a certain incident in the world cup :down::down:. But i must admit that it is sad to see a game of skill dragged in to the mud by a few bad apples.
Merchant raider

Wrong forum - keep it in the General Topics area.

French cheats !!!
 

hi all
See the french are up to there old tricks again ( :nope::nope:)
Watching the soccer over here in Europe, which i am a supporter off and all ball games of skill and fair play, but as usual the french decide they cant win fair so use THE HAND OF GOD trick, which i know the guys from the UK will know from a certain incident in the world cup :down::down:. But i must admit that it is sad to see a game of skill dragged in to the mud by a few bad apples.
Merchant raider
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Handballs, dives etc. It's all too common to see these things in high class football. Too bad there is no video refereeing in football, would settle many a dubious case I'm sure.

From reading around, it seems that a good number of the French aren't happy with the taste of their victory. According to a poll by Le Monde, 88% of their readers don't think their team deserved the qualification.

The Argentinians didn't seem to mind back in 1986 when Maradona did the same thing in the World Cup final. But Maradona blamed it on God. At least Henry Thierry didn't do that. Mon dieu!

Time to send football off to take a cold shower. If they keep letting player take dives and putting themselves up for an oscar nomination, there won't be much of a game left.:nope:

Its just a game, OK it would have been another excuse for a countrywide party if they had gone to S.A. but they are not.
Yes a handball is against the rules, but the rules also say the descision of the ref. is final.

Aye, and the refs are still only human, sometimes they make mistakes. Without that human element football would be boring. It is all the untamed emotion, weather good or otherways, thats keeps me hooked on football.

Yes, but in this case its taken a turn with not only the FAI complaining but idiot politicians wading in about it being unfair.
Where were these people complaining about fair play when Ireland gained from a refs mistake like with the penalty against Georgia?

Looks like we have two threads on GT by the same author going on the same subject.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158411

This is one of the great things about football: What happens in the field is final and things are extremely rarely decided in the cabinets unlike say in F1. Even then it's usually only red and yellow cards that are touched, not the end result of the match.

Teams, fans and even, ffs, prime ministers also just conveniently forget about all the previous mistakes in their favor when a high-profile one happens against them.

The French have made a habit of raising their hands for years :O:

Why can't they have reviews for every goal scored, like in the NHL? Just have one guy checking all the camera angles for handballs or offsides within 20 m of the net? It wouldn't slow the game down, and it would preclude national teams being eliminated because of flagrantly bad calls.

I think they're working on that and have already tested it quite a few times in practice, but I don't know what the current status is precisely. Then again in this particular case Ireland wouldn't even been there playing against France, or it hadn't been this tight, if there hadn't been a few bad calls earlier. No harm done in my opinion.

Because that would be too clinical and clean, would take all the fun out of long standing footie feuds.