RTÉ Sport: Rep of Ireland face France in World Cup play-off

[vrover7]

its all stephen pienaars fault. there wouldnt have been any henry handball if it wasnt for him

[oliverjumelle]

it wasnt fair to seed the draw uin the first place

[shitzzo]

henry is just like his president....they both cheat their way to the top!!!

[Snoopo]

lol @ Island getting banged out.

[sirclahan]

ahahahahah

[twotribes03]

YOU WANT ACTION FROM FIFA? Go to the World Cup site and contact them through email and ask them to organize a 3rd game to decide who goes to the world cup.

Im a neutral and I feel cheated out of what up to that point hand been a very exciting game. If you feel the same way make the effort to write to FIFA demanding Fair Play and demanding another game.

No point making comments here, write to FIFA and demand justice. If they get enough emails they will have to act!

[putamadrenicolas]

this world cup consists of some very weak teams that got there for the first time ever so i dont think its going to be as good as the previous one. teams like slovenia slovakia FRANCE north korea new zealand usa shudnt be there.

[putamadrenicolas]

hahahahaha

[powerdriller10]

What is the fuss all about?

The referee comitted a mistake. Referees are not perfect. If all referee's wrongs are gonna cause a rematch, the games will never end. Anyway, the swedish referee did not whistle a penalty fault against Ireland, just minutes before Henry's hand, so Why not restart the game since then, France kicking the penalty and then playing the remaining minutes ??

[CBFHVP]

I agree that the referees make mistakes, but this one is obvious even to women

[zasticenisvjedok]

Republic of Ireland is Winer. Congratulation!!!

France is loser. Bigest loser.

[Trulyloyale]

where cheating & being comedian is reputed a good skill !!

The spanish teams ? All they can do is playing their anti football , their senseless & ridiculous tiki-taka of dumbs which essentially consists in playing hat tricks till the 16m area and then stopping having no idea of how to play the rest of the game ...XD !

No tactics, no team playing , no skills put on the pitch out of their ridiculous spanish tiki-taka , the football played at circus .

[Trulyloyale]

not wondered of that , blatter most corrupt

manager of world football, france's dirty

cheaters who acted upon their attitude ( coward headbutter zidane , diving malouda in WC06 final , typical french arrogance & unfairness, sore loosing french style and so on ....) that we Italians know so well !!

Cheating handballer Henry and stupid dirty provoker Diarra on 1st leg at the end of the game play both in spanish liga , the most pathetic league in Europe

[BigjockGnu]

If you'e Irish and laughed at Maradonna's 'hand of gawd' --- bet you feel like a tit tis morning.

A bad decision - thats all - no conspiracy.

[hifiveone]

PLATINI MAFIA RULES !!

[ASroma90]

hahahaha pienaar, well job muhahaha

[danny02c]

Yet again the credibility of the world cup really comes into question here. What kind of game is this??

[bolivaskurac]

Bravo to France! They have to send handball players to South Africa. Thanks God they didn't do it against Serbia. They played with football players & didn't succeed to be 1st in the group.

[Fokaaah777]

France was playing volleyball today, and Ireland was really playing football, but it doesn't matter, I hope Ireland be here in Brazil in 2014! I'm sad about they out of world cup in Africa.

[NoycieBrv]

hope ireland go throw from england

[mericolosa]

english r the most hated people in europe

[Fcakanada]

French and Germans too

[mericolosa]

better pasta and pizza than frogs!!!!

[liverpoolarescum2009]

the pressure is all on france tomorrow nite.

[mangebag]

this is about a football match.COME ON IRELAND!!!!

[pagus]

C'mon Ireland from Italy

Vai nonno Trap!

Francia a casa

[dologhlin]

got my tickets for this saturday... hoping for a historic night on our way to south africa.

[irishroverhorse]

COME ON IRELAND

[scorpio75000]

oh and yea, reading your comments it seems that your anglo part is overwhelming... too bad for you... must be the rainy days making u bitter... :-)

[scorpio75000]

Allez les blues!!!! ;-)

[DotsyOO7]

Domenech will be sacked , Ireland will go through figers crossed, i can see it.

[bozirob]

i hope ireland beat the french and all other second seed teams beat the favorites that will do damage to fifa and their coffers cameroon vs ireland for once not as sexy as france vs brazil in the finals

[Fokaaah777]

Come on IRELAND let's beat France! I'm sure you'll get it! I wish ireland qualified to the next World Cup -D'

[robert99999]

I like the way FIFA used the terms "Pot 1" and "Pot 2". They could have been more honest about it and used the terms "Seeded" and "Unseeded".

[gmcfc]

hate the way every one thinks ireland wont make the world cup if france played well in the group they would of won the group.the world cup champions did not beats ireland they still have some players from 06. never now what can happend in football look what happend after they won the world cup 98 in 2002 world cup dident even get out the group stages. and they had the best players they.

[ningdoggjyfh]

Fact,, they were beat by Senegal :D Hahahahaha SENEGAL for jaysus sake!

,,,,FREAKS!!!

[gmcfc]

they did not beat senegal they finished senond and denmark finished top.

[oforak47]

nd wat has senegal got to do wiv dis

[EndaCraig]

balls are different weight. piennar takes so long, as hes trying to make out the heavy ball, which is portugal for example, and then the light ball which would be the weakest team, bosnia. The side jokes about south africa and france playing are to distract us from spotting how long piennar takes to choose the balls.

The balls might look the same, but they feel different due to weight because there made of different material etc..

[dvega1]

haha ! thats the biggest load of crap iver ever heard

[Snoopo]

Ah well Ireland, you`re out, lets not beat about the bush. maybe you can qualify for 2014

[ningdoggjyfh]

HAHAHAH! Go way our dat!!

I betche any money Ireland beat them in both legs

[boscosbollocks]

sorry but just because you've qualified doesn't mean you're anymore in the running to win so bragging rights aren't entirely yours.

[taobhchlea]

I will make it my mission to message you throughout the World Cup. You were great against Brazil by the way, on that evidence you'll be hard to beat next year.

[Snoopo]

Cheers!

I thought our 2nd stringers were fucking shit, and quite rightly wont be making the trip down to S.A

[no1manutdsupporter]

Come on Ireland we want to get to the knockout stages.

[ronaldszoon]

Good luck Ireland! 6 African teams in the World Cup is enough. We don't need another one from Europe (France).

[eamo08]

u irish? we playin home leg in croke park (ill be there) not lansdowne road duhhh

[fairhillnorrie]

lansdown road will tell allot. if we cant beat them there we have no hope.. i think we CAN .. they are not as good as Italy. but we need a full squad.. I am proud of their performance to date.. GOOD LOOK REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. Can we do it? YES WE CAN...

[mrguyincognito1]

2:39 WTF did he say?

[fairhillnorrie]

he said, ireland will beat france.

[MegaIrishMan1]

Ireland WILL beat France

[Edward1312]

Ciona

You are the idiot, Fabregas is Spanish not Portugese, and if you think Beckham is anything other tha a libility you are more of a fool than I think you are.

[eamo08]

cmon da boys n green, when steve ireland comes back for the game we will win easy enough no bother

[hooooooooove]

bosnia portugal hehe nice !

good luck bosnia !

[ZuleCRO]

Ah, the famous seeded draw. When Germany, France and Portugal are hanging come the seeds. Why didn't they think of that earlier ??? Then we wouldn't see Slovakia or Switzerland qualify directly. I think that Belarus is at least as equal as them, but congratulations to them, they took the chance well. I wish Ireland all the best but it will be very hard of course.

[whenevero]

come on ireland we can do it

[culcamp]

boys we r actually gonna win...2 reasons...number 1 france have rugby game on da hime match so it will b jus irish at da match...2 its da worst france team da walked da planet haha

[shiznykid]

its a rugby league game which isnt huge in France, so I'm guessing that the French will probably want to see if their country can qualify for the World cup.

[jaroc09]

no it's rugby union,france against the world champions south africa and it's already sold out

[shiznykid]

yes but the French know that SA will not bring their full strength squad as alot of their major players (including matfield,piennar) are playing in a domestic competition

[Numbuh653CP]

COME ON IRELAND!

[robert99999]

Worked out handy for FIFA - 3 of the seeded teams were drawn away first

[johntheowl]

no mate, russia, portugal and greece are all seeded and are all at home first

[robert99999]

Oh yeah - I stand corrected. Nevertheless there is an interesting conspiracy theory out there: FIFA deliberately decided not to initially announce seeding for 2nd placed teams as to do so mght have counted against the "bigger" countries as there are alot of "smaller" countries with a very high ranking. Some of those "smaller" high ranking countries could could have been seeded at the expense of the "bigger" ones. When it became apparent this wasn't going to happen - Bring on the Seeding!!!!

[GarGPS]

I think your here just to piss people off? And what do you mean by home nations?

[Edward1312]

You can try and remove my comments cause you dont like what I have to say but thats censoreship. The reality is that most of the Irish players play in England and a number of them were born there and the Irish football association and fans are parasitic. Lets have a rule where you can only pick players that play in your own country and were born there. Then where would Ireland be, that rule would not effect England but Ireland would not have any players.

[collieennis]

the whole English empire was parasitic for hundreds of years! so ill gladly take a few of our English born cousins.

[whenevero]

what club do you follow?

[cionad]

So... Because Fabregas doesn't play in Portugal, he shouldn't be allowed to play for them?

Beckham would be ineligible for England, No Henry for France, No Ballack for Germany...

idiota

[luke0sborne]

4 million people in Ireland,i think we could get a squad together

[Fokaaah777]

yes 2014 the world cup is here in Brazil, I guess 2010 wc won't be a good championship, Argentina and France having troubles to qualify, this is not a good start... but I'll support Rep. of Ireland they haven't been in Germany and France were almost champion another time, sooo IRELAND!

[septiiic]

I have to admit I feel a bit sad that either France or Ireland won't be at the World Wup. I'm French so I definitely support France and I will be more than sad if we don't win, but we do like Irish people a lot over here and I wish we could both be at the World Cup.

[Pteypan]

i dont think it's fair wat fifa done to the smaller teams just cos the over rated teams didn't play well at the qualifiers

[boz8mpna]

The higher ranked teams didn't have bad qualifiers it's just that you would automatically expect them to win every game they play. Out of all the nations Ireland had the poorest record with 18 pts and goal diff. of just +4

[sXeBetterThanYou]

Out of all the playoff nations Ireland was the only team to have not lost a single group stage match.

[1991cdj]

:D come on

[fairhillnorrie]

what time is it now???

[fairhillnorrie]

cant wait... p.s. CANT WAIT.!!!

[fairhillnorrie]

every game is difficult. we will HAVE to win in Dublin.. no ifs or buts. we need a full squad. COME ON THE BOYS IN GREEN... CAN WE BEAT FRANCE?? YES WE CAN.. (hopefully) ha

[keveydaking]

why do u want france to win

[TroyDouglas917]

It will be a close match, but the problem is that Ireland never score enough goals. Even if they score first, they sit back and don't go for another one. We saw what happened against Italy. You'd have to give the French the edge, but I hope Ireland go through. Come on you boys in green!

[GerryDisthename]

I like the French. Great people. But I hope we Irish can prevail against Goliath!

[nitecourse1]

lol, I was thinking that aswell

[uguxohh]

well ireland is screwed but still come on ireland my country

[fairhillnorrie]

naw boy. we will will wln.. France are shite. we held the world champs. don't be negative.. bye now..

[chakalonzote]

wow, I made the draw last week and i got the same matches, amazing!!!

[Fokaaah777]

I hope Ireland beat the France but we cannot have a world cup without France :x it's sad...

[ExtremeVideoMaker95]

ur right, ireland havnt been in world cup since 2002, no france, no world cup.. I think its ireland's chance, we will hope france in 2014 BRAZIL

[scorpio75000]

Go France!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!