I am looking at the news about Henry, France, and Ireland. According to Radio Nederlands, Sarkozy has already apologized to the Irish Prime Minister but there was no news about a replay. FIFA has already decided against a replay since other countries would be requesting the same thing. I am in agreement with Sir Alex […]
Henry issued an apology to the Irish although he said that a replay [which will not happen] should be decided by FIFA. Arsene Wagner [who was his boss at Arsenal] agreed with Henry’s assessment of the situation. Sir Alex Ferguson of Manchester United proposed the use of video technology to facilitate the resolution of issues […]
Nikolas Sarkozy [President of France] has just apologized to Brian Cowan [Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland] for what transpired in the Qualifications for the 2010 World Cup between the two countries. It is great that sports, and decency has prevailed although there is a need to investigate what happened. http://my.nowpublic.com/sports/french-president-sarkozy-apologizes-ireland
Egypt responded to the loss of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers to Algeria and the denunciations by Algeria before FIFA. Egypt has been the scene of riots in front of the Algerian Embassy in Cairo as its government recalls its ambassador to Algeria. The reason has been the accusations against Algeria by Egypt of «physical […]
Thierry Henry of the French Football [Soccer] Federation has just declared that a replay between France and the Republic of Ireland should be conducted in the name of fairness. If there is anyone who can add to this Breaking News Story, an open invitation is extended.
FIFA [and this was going to happen] rejected the request of the Republic of Ireland for a rematch. The reason was that a result and the ruling of a referee cannot be reversed. FIFA added that if a replay was allowed, every nation would be asking for one. FIFA left the door open to an […]
En la semana entre el 13 de Noviembre 2009 hasta el 20 de Noviembre 2009, el mundo de futbol fue testigo de muchas sorpresas. Francia logro clasificarse en la Copa Mundial del 2010 con la mano del jugador Thierry Henry, el equipo de futbol de los EEUU lograron perder sus juegos amistosos a Eslovenia y […]
The US Football [Soccer] Team played their friendlies against Slovenia and Denmark. What happened was that they lost to both teams and there was no reason for that to occur. The US Soccer Team had managed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup and win the CONCACAF Championship in 2009 only to sputter at the […]
Algeria 1-0 Egypt The nation of Sudan played host to the bitter rivalry in World Cup history between Algeria and Egypt. It appeared that both teams were competing for domination but Antar Yahia scored a goal for Algeria within 39 minutes of the game with a free kick in the air and past the goalkeeper. […]
For Tim Vickery: Your article about Maradona dealt with many interesting points. Regardless, I believe that he should have received punishment under Article 57 and 58 of the FIFA Code of Conduct. Roberto
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