Hi Bengt
I shall be pragmatic. I feel sorry for the Irish players who really put up a
fighting performance. Let's not forget that France were understrength last
night. Life is not fair.
Agreed about the notion of FIFA demonstrating fair play but I do not think it
will happen. Imagine all those advertisements on TV on CNN encouraging children
not to cheat at school, not to cheat in life...I mean what message are we really
giving our kids? Anyway, that is going off the point of football.
There is a question that sticks in my mind; can we replay every football match
where a bad decision is made? Can we correct all the bad decisions that were
made? No. Life goes on. As an Irish person, I take encouragement that we can
beat a big team in 90 minutes away from home. This was the first big victory
against a big team (no offence to any nation) in 6 years. Up until last night,
Ireland had failed to beat other teams that were its equals home or away -
Israel, Russia, Switzerland, France, Italy...
It's nice that Sarko has come out and said that Ireland were cheated. Good old
spirit after the Lisbon Treaty. Maybe that should have been a clause :) |