Thursday, November 19, 2009

The luck of the Irish

Well I'm a really big fan of soccer you know its something that i have known about for most of my life I love playing it, I love watching it, I love talking about it and I absoutely love the World Cup, but one thing HATE is cheating. Everybody in the world knows the rules of soccer you kick with your feet into the opposing goal and the only person allowed to touch it with their hands is the goalie well it seems the country of france do not understand this rule. If any of you have been keeping up with the WC qualifiers you would know that France one of the soccer powerhouses was forced to participate in a play off due to their poor performances in the main qualifying competition. Well after Fifa had deceided not to seed the teams they changed their minds and deceided that seeds were needed which meant that none of the big teams would have to go against each other. Well France was paired with Ireland for the playoff and by the way Ireland had been doing amazing up until now and just missed out for a direct berth by a couple of points. Well France somehow pull off a win at Irelands home so basically Ireland had to beat France at their home to be able to go to the world cup and they had to beat them by 2 goals or more to go or by one goal to go to penalty shootouts. Nobody expected ireland to do it but they were they were actually doing the imposible they were beating france at home and headed for penalty shootouts and im not saying that Ireland wouldve qualified but their chances were considerably higher when in the 103 min of extra time france scores thanks too a very clear handball that was seen even in the highest of stands but guess what... The refferee deceided to let the goal count effectively knocking ireland out of the competition. Now that really grinds my gears mostly beacause if your excuse is oh well the ref. did not see it FIFA well surely do something about it right? Wrong FIFA is ignoring the whole situation when in previous times when the bigger nation was the victim they had step in and demanded a replay of the game but of course its France they cant not have them at the World Cup thats ridicoulous. Thats not even the worst of it fifa runs a website called fifa.com well usually they post these articles with happened in the games and then they allow user feedback well of course me like any good soccer fan went to the website to yell hand ball but wait when i type in the words fifa or anything that has to do with the game they block me and say i was using profanity when the most profane word i used are shame and fifa. So now I'm done with my rant and if fifa does what is right and do at least something about this situation I will come back and retract this but until then I say HANDBALL!!!

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