Stick to rugby, Bock
Posted on | November 19, 2009 | 150 Comments
Ireland went out of the World Cup last night when Thierry Henry cheated and France scored. Of course emotions run high and it’s easy to point the finger of blame at one man when that misses the big picture entirely.
But it goes deeper than that. According to Bock the Robber, Thierry Henry knew before the game France would qualify. He says:
He knows this because he has been told it before the game kicked off. Thierry Henry knew his team would be going to South Africa before they played one second of the first leg in Dublin.
Why?
Because we now know clearly that soccer has no credibility whatever. We can see now that soccer is a profoundly corrupt activity, with no purpose except to make money for people like Thierry Henry and his masters.
Frankly that is beyond stupid as anyone who knows anything about the game of football will tell you. A game was played over 120 minutes, there was no pre-determined outcome. Yet Bock uses words like ‘scam’ and ‘fix’, when clearly it was nothing of the sort. It was unfortunate for Ireland but it wasn’t a fix.
I mean, did FIFA fix it for Kevin Doyle to miss a great chance with a header? Did FIFA fix it for John O’Shea to be found free at the back post only to hoof the ball over the bar like a GAA player? Did FIFA fix it for Damien Duff to be clean through on goal only to miss a great chance? And did FIFA fix it for Robbie Keane to be one on one with the keeper only to fuck it up by trying to be too clever?
If they did that’s impressive work, isn’t it? And on top of that, did FIFA fix it so that Paul McShane, instead of doing what any Sunday League defender would have done and actually defended, fucked up so badly he allowed the ball to get through to Henry to handle it? A proper footballer would have cleared that ball, we wouldn’t even be talking about a handball now, we’d probably be moaning about the injustice of penalties or something similar.
While everyone goes on about Henry handling it did anyone count how many times Robbie Keane controlled the ball with his arm last night? Lots. And once late on in their box too. If he’d gotten away with it and scored how many people would be moaning about cheats today? The only difference is the referee saw Keane, he didn’t see Henry, and you can see why he didn’t see it. It was on the far side of the player, he didn’t put his hand too far out, he got away with it. If the ref had seen it he would have given a free kick, end of story. It’s a shame for Ireland that he didn’t, but shit happens.
Bock goes on:
In an office somewhere, or perhaps on a laptop, if you knew where to look, you’d find details of next year’s World Cup winners, and probably the final score.
Tonight, soccer lost whatever little credibility it had left. It’s over. It’s dead.
It’s bullshit.
No, your post is a load of bullshit, Bock. Thierry Henry might be a ‘cheating fuck’ but he’s not a stupid fuck who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
The handball was a factor in Ireland not qualifying for the World Cup but don’t lose sight of the fact that Ireland could, and probably should, have had the game sewn up by then. Our failure to score another goal and our failure to defend a bog-standard free kick is just as much to blame as Thierry Henry.
And the authorities had nothing to do with any of it.
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November 19th, 2009 @ 9:13 am
I was very upset about all this last night, so much so that I considered downloading some Damien Rice.
This morning though, I’m grand.
Perspective, it’s a marvellous thing.
Not all that common though
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:24 am
HOW CAN YOU CALL IT ‘IRELAND’ WHEN HALF OF THEM WOULDN’T QULAIFY FOR AN IRISH PASSPORT?
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:25 am
“And the authorities had nothing to do with any of it” – the authorities allowed the goal to be fair, even Trap could see what happened from where he was. and it was certainly fixed in france’s favour by introducing seeding (sic) at the last minute. outside of that it was ireland’s to win. was still thievery of the highest order.
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:26 am
Wow… Bock’s post is ridiculous and then Gluaisteain lowers the bar even further, amazing stuff…
Traumatised, however, isn’t the word…
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:30 am
The hand of God goal against England in 1986 doesn’t seem as funny now, does it?
Actually, who am I kidding, it still does..
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:34 am
I’m sure all the outraged Ireland fans were suitably upset at Maradona’s besmirching of the beautiful game all those years ago.
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:39 am
Yep, I remember that being exactly our reaction.
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:43 am
heh, paragons of virtue, so we are.
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:43 am
Hand of God was followed up by one of the greatest goals of all time which actually gave the result legitimacy, of course it was a game changer but there was more to come.
Last night on the other hand…
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:44 am
If you’ll pardon the pun…
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:45 am
Ignores the fact France beat us at home, TUG.
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:54 am
It’s not the losing that makes it bad. (Who are we kidding – it’s not like we are EVER going to win the Soccer World Cup anyway) It’s the cheating. That’s all that rankles.
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:58 am
I need to hear more about this last minute seeding system.
Liam Brady has been going on about it also.
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:05 am
It’s hard not feel aggrieved! (french!)
but fuck… uhhgg
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:06 am
soccer is corrupt to the core. Sepp. Full stop.
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:06 am
Paul McShane, what a fucking donkey
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:08 am
fuck off you awful cunt
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:16 am
platini wanted eduardo banned for 2 matches for cheating against celtic, i’ll be very interested to hear what the little cunt has to say about his own team cheating their way to south africa. hewants the game cleaned up so we can expect him to denounce france right?
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:20 am
It’s pretty retarded that they don’t have video playback for the refs in a situation like that.
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:32 am
retarded, heh!
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:47 am
We should have it in the bag before the ballon de main.
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:59 am
If Henry had not rugby-passed the ball into our net we would have definitely won the penalty shoot-out, Stephen Ireland – the world’s greatest player – would definitely have come back, and we would have definitely won the World Cup next summer. Fact.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:05 am
I need to hear more about this last minute seeding system.
Liam Brady has been going on about it also.
Short version … everyone assumed there ws going to be an open draw between the 8 runners-up, coz that’s what always happened before. Then they discovered that countries like France & Portugal (& at one stage it looked like Germany)were going to finish 2nd in their groups. This might have meant France would play Germany, with one of them going out, while we might have got, say, Slovenia, with one of us getting in.
So they announced that the four highest ranked countries would go into one half of the draw & the four, well, countries they didn’t give a shit about, went into the other.
(Sorry, by short version, I meant quite long version).
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:09 am
Ah twenty, a handball and a dirty deflection? Ireland deserved penos, that’s all I’m saying…
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:31 am
As much as I think calling last night’s debacle a conspiracy (you can no more fix a game of soccer then you can the weather), the fact remains, soccer is utter bullshit populated by fairies and cheats.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:31 am
Never ceases to amaze me how worked up about football people get.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:40 am
That’s because, despite being populated by fairies and cheats, it’s still the best game on the planet.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:47 am
Far from it.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:47 am
That’s because, despite being populated by fairies and cheats, it’s still the best game on the planet.
Agree completely.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:50 am
The authorities had a whole bunch to do with it – the seeding system was a pile of wank.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:53 am
It might have been, it didn’t affect the outcome between Ireland and France though.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:54 am
Thanks Tinman, I just thought it would spark a bit of debate.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:55 am
Football = the opiate of the people
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:58 am
the ref had actually had a pretty good game until that point. and many under pressure refs/linesmen would have given a penalty a few mins earlier (even though it certainly wasnt one).
the only “conspiracy” here is the seeding issue. ultimately i think we can blame ronaldo and his nike (or whoever sponsor him) buddies, and their ability to get in blatter’s ear. all about the $$$$$$$$$$$
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Yep, it’s shit but that’s the way it goes, week in, week out. And if you support a decent club side (like most Irish people do) then you’re probably more used to being on the receiving end of such decisions. Still sucks though.
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
Actually Bock’s right. The winners of the next World Cup are on MY laptop. Match scores, scorers, the heap. And the next World Cup after that. My brother’s has the winner of the 2012 men’s 100 metres on his. I’m probably giving more away than I should, and this will come as some surprise, but none of them are Irish, which in turn proves he’s right.
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
Bock is clueless wanker.Himself and cap’n pee usually stroke off each others egos.
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Someone called them Musket Droppers which was quite funny I thought.
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:31 pm
I always wish we could harness football passion for some useful purpose. Like storming the Dail and erecting a guillotine.
Followed by some world class knitting while Madame Guillotine does her work (marvellous French invention by the way).
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:35 pm
Oh yea, and front cover of L’Equipe (French sports paper) today:
“La Main de Dieu”
So they’ve deified Thierry Henry already. Vive la France! Vive la difference!
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
And last one – cover of Le Parisien –
“Miraculeux”
Just to rub it in like.
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
I thought opiates were the opiates of the masses…
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
There are 2 kinds of player. the Gerrards, the Shearers, the honest men. then there are the Henrys, the C Ronaldos, the Rivaldos. The cheats. who give football a bad name amongst rugby fans…
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:49 pm
[...] angry Twenty Major says we shouldn’t blame FIFA for our players squandering all those chances, and I’m 100% in [...]
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
With reference to your quote about Robbie Keane’s numerous handballs (4 I counted), these fouls were all spotted by the referee and France rightly given a free. The problem is that the officials did’nt
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:55 pm
…give us the free. Hafd they done so, and we still went on to lose, there would not be such an outcry of injustice. It’s not that we lost, its HOW we lost.
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:56 pm
i reckon it was a giant conspiracy by the gillette corporation, makers and owners of thiery henry mach-bot v2.9, see him stroking his perfectly shaven chin ruefully after getting away with it?
November 19th, 2009 @ 12:58 pm
To be fair to McShane, he left the ball because (and I’m paraphrasing his train of thought here) “That’s going out, I’m leaving it. The only way that’s staying in is if this fecker cathces it and throws it ba…aw shite!”
Let’s let Thievery Henry’s patron Gilette know about our own Irish superstar, Captain Boycott.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
Wait… does “Let’s let” make sense?
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:03 pm
Strongly worded emails about the suitabilty of Henry as a product sponsor should be sent to
Gillette : pgpress.im@pg.com
Renault : info@renault.ie
Fifa – not so sure, but try
Joseph.Blatter@fifa.com
info@fifa.com
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:05 pm
For the love of fuck, we see this kind of thing every week on Sky, on RTE and on Match Of The Day.
Players seek to gain advantage by any means necessary – if they’re caught, they’re caught. If they get away with it then the ref’s a useless bastard, he gets demoted to the Championship for a week and then comes back smiling until the next fuck up.
It’s football. It happens. This time it happened to us but we’re using it to mask the fact that until last night Ireland had barely played under Trap and our passage wasn’t a God-given right. Had Robbie Keane handled before crossing for Richard Dunne to nod in, would we offer to replay the game?
Would we fuck.
Henry’s not a cheat, just a product of the current football culture of ‘win at all costs.’
As for Bock, well that kind of commentary isn’t worth the time it takes to read it. It’s sensationalism for its own sake – another sign of the times.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
McShane didn’t have anything to defend, there were two French players offside before the handball. You can’t blame a defender who is beaten by players breaking the rules.
As for your talk about hypocrites Twenty, lets not forget that one or two posts ago you were slamming a pathetic little student cunt for voicing his student cunt opinion in the paper and then as soon as there was any criticism you were shouting “If you don’t like it don’t read it.”
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
Yeah, and?
There are 2 kinds of player. the Gerrards, the Shearers, the honest men.
haha
Gerrard is rather light on his feet and Shearer was an elbowing cunt, but I suspect you know that already.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
I’m amazed at some of the vitriolic nonsense being dished out by some of the “mainstream media”. Lawrenson in the Irish Times, and Cascarino in the English, in particular. Yeah, it was a crappy way to go out. Yeah, it was a deliberate handball, and therefore cheating. As were Anelka’s attempt to con a penalty a few minutes earlier, Robbie Keane’s numerous handballs, and his regular throwing himself on his arse looking for a free. But until they bring in video replays and retrospective cards, it’s going to stay part of the game.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
You’ve been quoted by the bbc twenty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/8367913.stm
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
Saw that, heh
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
The big question is… how do we pin the blame on the Brits? After all, they seem to be to blame for most of Ireland’s ills.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
@Randoll the fact you can cite Shearer & Gerrard as examples of honest players is mind boggling. Two of the sneakiest cheats to play in recent years. Calling them honest is laughable.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:36 pm
Jeff Winter, plump former ref, on Sky Sports News.
“I think anyone who knows anything about football would applaud the referee for a great performance over 120 minutes.”
What a fucking twat.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
What the fuck is wrong with you you retard? Where’s your sense of pride? The boys played their hearts out last night for themelves and for us, but it seems the only thing u can do is sit on yer arse and moan about the negative aspects of their play….fuck u. The only thing I’ll agree with you on is McShane, the second he came on I said he would cost us a goal. But what happened was an absolute disgrace, our team was ROBBED of the chance to go thru on penalties, they at least deserved that. So fuck u Major if you can’t hold that tongue of yours on this day, a day when we should be feeling fierce pride about our teams performance and the blood, sweat and tears they put into the match, and for a little runt like you to be focussing on the negatives just to pull one over on a fellow blogger? Shame on you, I won’t be coming back to your blog again.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:44 pm
See ya.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
I was in asia when Italy were cheated out of the world cup in 2002. Poor traps knows the way it works only too well.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:53 pm
Yeah but if you were running into a shop and you had forgotten your lock, who would you ask to watch your bike, Thierry Henry or Robbie Keane?
I rest my case. I’m just not sure what my case is.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:54 pm
Have a look at Fifa’s website (if you start typing “fifa” into Google the sixth suggestion is “fifa 09 cheats”, but it’s just some load of crap about a video game), but here
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1136903.html#final+four+through+europe
look at the “key moments” section of the other three games compared to ours.
It’s like they don’t know what to say…
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:55 pm
Gimme – heh, Robbie’d be off selling the shimano parts to buy Linden Village.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
Yeah but if you were running into a shop and you had forgotten your lock, who would you ask to watch your bike, Thierry Henry or Robbie Keane?
Hehe.. Keane would probably be holding the shop up though to be fair…
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:57 pm
I hear loads of talk today about boycotting French products (french fries wtf?) because of the cheating.
How about the airlines – Ryanair and Aer Lingus – who cheated the fans (again) by astonomically raising their fares the minute the match was announced.
It would be more sensible directing your emails and your ire at them and lining them up for a boycott, ‘cos, by fuck, they’ll do it again and again. Screw the fans, fuck the supporters, fuck the Irish team. That’s their motto.
November 19th, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
Henry cheated, so did Keane, Henry got away with it and France go through, simple as that.
If any of the chances that fell to Doyle, Duff, O’Shea or Keane had fallen to Henry or Anelka they would have put them away, so its them that are at fault & not Henry.
If the Ref didn’t see the handball he can’t give it, simple as that, so he aint at fault either. The linesman or assistant should have spotted & flagged for the offside but didn’t.
McShane should have attacked the ball but let it go so he more than anyone is at fault for the goal, it was his job to defend and he fucked up, they cannot score if he does his job.
I can’t really comment on the result, as I commented previously & prior to the first game that I hoped these cunts would lose so I got what I wanted. However I would have preferred a fairer outcome, ie a proper French victory, by the end of the week the sense of injustice will have reached 1916 or 1798 levels, fuck sake people get some sense of perspective.
Ireland to win on Saturday in the Rugby, a proper sport.
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:15 pm
You can bet if one of the Irish player had of done a Henry, that Fifa would have demanded a replay of the match..
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
Anyone seriously considering boycotting anything french because of this is a fucking tool of the highest order.
Complain to FIFA if you want to make a point about an unjust decision as they’re the ones who are supposed to enforce the rules.
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:21 pm
You cannot possibly replay a match because of what’s happened. If you did every single match in every league ever would have to be replayed because there’ll always be a bad decision or two along the way
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:31 pm
I’m gonna boycott French & Saunders, though just because I don’t like them.
Or we could boycott French letters, then we’ll massively outnumber them the next time we play against them.
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
I’m going to boycott Toblerone because the linesmen were SWISS.
And any Irish products because RTE paid the FRENCH to let us watch their CHEATING.
SEX FIEND PREDATOR SHAMELESS.
CONTROVERSY!
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
Im boycotting French and Saunders..cunts
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
Mick is the voice of reason here – until video refs and retrospective punishment for blatant cheating – be it handball, diving, whatever – nothing will change. This is the game as it stands; cheating is part of it – like it or leave it.
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thierry_Henry&oldid=326715091
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:50 pm
* sharpens pitchfork, winks at Morgor*
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
Apparently FIFA are to look into a French concern over the eligibility of Darron Gibson.
November 19th, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thierry_Henry&oldid=326715091
Heh
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
-Howya Joe. Jez it’s scandalous Joe. Robbed we were Joe, Robbed. And dats cheatin’ dat is Joe, cheatin’!
-God, dat’s terrible…
-I know Joe, I know. Dem French, handlin da ball an all. It’s a disgrace Joe, and da ref did nottin’
-Ah god yeah, dat’s terrible, terrible…
-An wha I want to know Joe, is wha are da gover-ment goin to do abow it. I’ll tell ya Joe, nottin’, dat’s wha!
-God, yeah, dat’s awful, awful. What do you tink Brush..?
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
did you see the minister for justice is calling for a rematch… that’s just embarrassing!
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:08 pm
which if course has been rejected…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/19/thierry-henry-fifa-rematch-ireland-france
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
Ireland were very very unlucky but any striker would have tried what henry tried. He got away with it, tough shit on us. It’s a sickener but that’s life
In an office somewhere, or perhaps on a laptop, if you knew where to look, you’d find details of next year’s World Cup winners, and probably the final score.
Is that fucking cunt for real?
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
“Is that fucking cunt for real?”
I once said that to a girl.
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:16 pm
That’s the most accurate Wikipedia article I’ve ever read. As for Bock, don’t get me started, he makes me embarrassed to come from Limerick
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
did you see the minister for justice is calling for a rematch… that’s just embarrassing!
Sure is. Useless god-fearing cunt.
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:25 pm
“I thought opiates were the opiates of the masses…
Look it up.
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
I thought Trapattoni’s remarks about Ireland being the only unseeded team to play the second leg away from home were interesting.
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
Surely just the luck, or no luck, of the draw.
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
Why would he mention it at the press conference then?
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
The rejection of the possibility of a replay based on the ref’s decision being final is completely irrelevant because there is a precedent. 2006, Ukraine – Belarus or something like that was replayed because of cheating.
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
Why would he mention it at the press conference then?
Because he’s in the pay of a Masonic Jewish Arab cabal?
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:51 pm
“The rejection of the possibility of a replay based on the ref’s decision being final is completely irrelevant because there is a precedent. 2006, Ukraine – Belarus or something like that was replayed because of cheating.”
That was a technical error by the ref, essentially the ref broke the rules.
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/germany2006/news/newsid=27212.html
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
Not only is the match not going to be replayed but its deflecting from the main issue – Brian Cowan is a cunt and has fucked up this country…
November 19th, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
Because he’s in the pay of a Masonic Jewish Arab cabal?
It’s the only thing that makes sense.
Funny though that Trap says no replay and the FAI have made a complaint and called for a replay. Fucking tools.
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:09 pm
Interesting, that technical error. I reckon Liverpool should get the Sunderland match replayed on the same principle, given that the ref acknowledged he saw the ball hit the beachball but just didn’t know the rule about 3rd party interference.
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
I think once you start replaying games you’re asking for trouble.
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
there is not a fughing chance it will be replayed.
big business will not allow it.
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
“Is that fucking cunt for real?”
I once said that to a girl.
and was it?
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
Zip your pants up Peadar for fucks sake…
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
well done 20, got to the ton.
All this talk about fair play is fine in practice, but it will never work in Thierry.
*room falls silent*
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
Well Peader, when I heard my voice echoing back I ran.
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
Well Peader, when I heard my voice echoing back I ran.
Is that when the tentacles and teeth burst forth?
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:49 pm
I didn’t know which end of her it was.
November 19th, 2009 @ 4:49 pm
All this talk about fair play is fine in practice, but it will never work in Thierry.
heh, I like it
November 19th, 2009 @ 5:14 pm
Hah yeah good one
November 19th, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
You’re doing that Bock fucker a favour by referencing him so much.
Oxygen of publicity etc…
”Ireland fans were suitably upset at Maradona’s besmirching of the beautiful game all those years ago”
Ha. You’re right, makes us look a little hypocritical. To remedy this we should also replay all of the ’86 World cup.
November 19th, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
They were all on the liveline today the fucking idiots… What the fuck is Joe Duffy going to do about a decision made by a referee in Paris. (Oh please dont make me eat my words on that one)
I think Henry is a cool dude. I feel a bit fucking robbed but isnt that the nature of sports? And as for that cunt Trappatoni, he may be a great manager(I dont know) but jesus I got a headache listening to that press conference. Could the fucker not even learn a few phrases, or even use a partial script? Can he fucking reid?? (sic)
November 19th, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
It’s fucking obvious, Henry can’t change it, the ref can’t change it, FIFA won’t and can’t change it, but the FFF can offer a replay.
A replay in which I have no doubt we’d actually get fucking hammered.
November 19th, 2009 @ 7:05 pm
We are all brother EU members, be nice
November 19th, 2009 @ 7:12 pm
Brothers up in arms.
November 19th, 2009 @ 7:39 pm
It is getting a HUGE amount of coverage in the States. No chance of a replay, but why not try!
Bottom line is the game should have been won if we could have put away any one of at least 5 good chances.
November 19th, 2009 @ 8:41 pm
Dear Jim’ll fix it,
can you fix it so that France win the World Cup and then in a sporting gesture dedicate their win to Ireland?
George Burlie
November 19th, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
Don’t worry, Bertie, sorry Brian’s got this sorted…
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soccer/2009/1119/1224259137020.html
November 19th, 2009 @ 10:56 pm
the only thing I love more than a good game of football is a good spat between Bock n Twenty….c’mon the big fella……
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:13 pm
It’s become embarrassing now, even Primetime are in on the act. If the FAI are serious about taking action and lodging complaints why don’t they bring a civil action for damages against Henry & the French FA. They will lose but it will piss FIFA and their fucking fair play cunts off & will prevent them spouting bollox about integrity & honesty while it’s going on, it would also cast a huge cloud over the whole tournament, which could only be a good thing.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
Got barred from Bocks site after 2 comments. Can anyone beat this?
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
Will Dr Yulia join the fray ?
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
oh and all this bitching and moaning about the result is so very scouse….it’s embarrassing….
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:15 pm
Manuel has it bang on. There’s a disgusting honk of Scouse off the whole thing
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
why don’t they bring a civil action for damages against Henry & the French FA
In which court?
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
European court of some shit or another – Some skobie will know.
“oh and all this bitching and moaning about the result is so very scouse….it’s embarrassing….”
Yeah, next will be on about fucking Hillsborough or something.
November 19th, 2009 @ 11:45 pm
Dear Frogs,
Replay the game or you will get the same moaning as the Brits have over the past 800 odd years?
November 20th, 2009 @ 12:03 am
“Got barred from Bocks site after 2 comments. Can anyone beat this?”
Well the 2 comments weren’t exactly complimentary now were they ?
November 20th, 2009 @ 12:04 am
It’s all Paul McShanes fault, I’m gonna ring RTE tomorrow afternoon and tell JOE, he’ll know what to do.
November 20th, 2009 @ 12:12 am
I’ll bet Joe Coleman saw it coming.
November 20th, 2009 @ 1:03 am
Lafsword: They weren’t exactly offensive either,
I poked a hole in his logic so Bock took his football and walked off the pitch.
November 20th, 2009 @ 1:28 am
Toronto, you may be Canadian but he is just an obnoxious cunt.
November 20th, 2009 @ 1:44 am
Hard to know who the biggest collection of cunts are at this stage. Is it the know nothing ‘I don’t like soccer but…’ cunts ringing Joe? Is it the ‘stop moaning it happens all the time…’ crowd acting the know-all cunt? Is it the ‘What about how we reacted to the English…’ cunts? Is it the ‘we wouldn’t care if one of ours had gotten away with it’ utter cunts?…
Keane handled a couple of times, he didn’t fucking control the ball with his arm; he didn’t deliberately, consciously, know exactly what he was doing, palm it on to his fucking foot. No comparison.
Happens all the time? List them. List all the times in a match of any standard a striker got away with controlling the ball with his hand resulting in a goal. If it was that fucking common then everyone’s point of reference wouldn’t be an incident from over 23 years ago, would it?
At least a dive usually involves some kind of action on the other teams part, at least it’s usually a little bit grey, like Anelka’s, like that penalty ManYoo got against Spurs. There is no grey area with this in any shape or form.
And yeah, maybe every band wagon jumping cunt in the country that has spent the last 7 years calling the Irish footballers every name under the sun while mentally sucking off a bunch of fatties playing their whites-only minority 9 country sport would now be celebrating if we had won the game the same way, but go fuck yourself anyone who thinks a half decent football fan wouldn’t be mortified today if it had been the other way around. Every smart arsed cunt going is coming out with that one now. Fuck off to your alternative universe and find out so, it’s pointless fucking conjecture and it doesn’t make it right. Besides, if we had won that way, we’d be on the receiving end and loads more from the French and all the rest and, yeah, maybe FIFA would pressurise us into replaying.
People have made fucking fools of themselves today with their moaning and their replays and their suing Fifa and their Facebook shite. The same cunts who probably change the channel to watch fucking X Factor last Saturday. It still doesn’t change the fact that it was an act of cheating and an act of cheating far beyond the normal chancer shite on a football pitch and an act of cheating from a bloke who bitched and whinged about cheating on that exact same pitch only three years ago.
November 20th, 2009 @ 1:50 am
They should challenge the French to a game of Bog Ball, though they would probably lose that as well.
November 20th, 2009 @ 3:02 am
Toronto, you may be Canadian but he is just an obnoxious cunt.
Maybe after a few years of residency maggot. I’m Irish!
November 20th, 2009 @ 10:37 am
I was just reading the comments on the lovely Bocks site, and saw the simile of the week.
‘As useless as Anne franks drumkit’
hahaha…
November 20th, 2009 @ 10:48 am
the only thing I love more than a good game of football is a good spat between Bock n Twenty….c’mon the big fella……
which of them is the big fella? Is twenty a fat cunt?
November 20th, 2009 @ 11:47 am
http://hayibo.com/articles/view/1177/Irish_say_World_Cup_elimination_is_more_shocking_than_Westlife.htm
Form South Africa with love. ):)
November 20th, 2009 @ 11:50 am
is it time for a united ireland football team?
November 20th, 2009 @ 12:49 pm
No, it is not. A British Isles Football team would be a much better idea.
November 20th, 2009 @ 12:54 pm
nice one!
November 20th, 2009 @ 12:55 pm
so long as it’s still called ireland, I’m all on for it.
November 20th, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
[...] Stick to rugby, Bock | Twenty Major – Still smoking in Dublin bars [...]
November 20th, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
Twenty, are you Roy Keane?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8370327.stm
November 20th, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
Haha, no.
Long time, Kav. How’s things?
November 21st, 2009 @ 2:03 pm
[...] have won on penalties anyway. And if Ireland had taken their chances they would have won. As Twenty Major points out: I mean, did FIFA fix it for Kevin Doyle to miss a great chance with a header? Did FIFA [...]
November 21st, 2009 @ 10:31 pm
I’m sure most of all those hurt/affected/disgusted/angry about how our Irish boys were robbed on Wednesday will soon forget the whole affair as the weekend comes and our beloved British soccer clubs (‘we’ when discussed in the pub) get back to action. That never does and never will cease to amaze me. Why don’t we just go the whole hog and rejoin the commonwealth and forget what our forefathers died for. We are more british that the english themselves. They must be laughing at us.
November 22nd, 2009 @ 12:35 am
Yeah, because supporting an English football team is a sure sign that we want to be back under British rule.
Fuck me, that is almost as cretinous as some of the shit we’ve had to put up with this week.
November 23rd, 2009 @ 6:24 pm
I’ve a friend who’s a hugh Barcelona fan. and his favourite meal is paella. Fucking spanish rule wanting cunt
November 23rd, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
huge
December 1st, 2009 @ 5:33 pm
Just saw there that someone said most Irish people support ‘a decent club side’. Shouldn’t they have said an English or Scottish club side, to the exclusion of any involvement whatsoever in Irish football?
Apart, of course from the boys in green. That’s called BOGism, by the way.
December 6th, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
Things are good thanks twenty, busy with life’s banalities, you know how it is. Escaped redundancy twice this year, baby number three on the way, Christmas trees to put up, all that sort of jive.
Glad to see you’ve kept things going here, the place is looking great.
July 22nd, 2010 @ 7:09 pm
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