10 years ago to the day

was there in paris 09 and what a way to celebrate the 10 year anniversary tonight  tonight proved that living through the ultimate heartreak battle hardens one for anything.  Fridays draw will reveal all. If a home final then being optimistic we should fancy our chances  At least a play off will put at end to this “if you’d have given me X points after X games I would have taken it” crap. At the end of the day we’re a play off team and if we can’t beat the Slovaks in last chance saloon we deserve to be nowhere near the euros - and that’s just being honest.

Edited by The Green Werewolf - 18 Nov 2019 at 11:38pm

The Huntacha wrote: The first leg was a terrible performance. Anelka's shot took a deflection on the way in too IIRC. Duff's miss in the 2nd leg haunts me more than the handball, similar to McClean not squaring it to Long when we were 1-0 in Lyon.

Strazdas wrote: The Huntacha wrote: The first leg was a terrible performance. Anelka's shot took a deflection on the way in too IIRC. Duff's miss in the 2nd leg haunts me more than the handball, similar to McClean not squaring it to Long when we were 1-0 in Lyon. Yes, on both counts. The French goal was deflected in Dublin....probably would have ended 0-0 otherwise. Duff's miss I remember more than the handball.....that goes in and we would have qualified comfortably.

The first leg was a terrible performance. Anelka's shot took a deflection on the way in too IIRC.

Bob Hoskins wrote: Love if we played like that tonight.  Remember how sh*te the 0-0 was in the first leg...then that anomaly of playing really well

Edited by Het-field - 18 Nov 2019 at 4:14pm

Terzino wrote: What made it worse is that that was one of our best ever performances. Should have won the game 3 or 4 nil. And after all that, France went to South Africa and did absolutely nothing. How special would that have been for us to play South Africa in their own World Cup?

Edited by Zinedine Kilbane 110 - 18 Nov 2019 at 4:01pm

What made it worse is that that was one of our best ever performances. Should have won the game 3 or 4 nil.

Let’s hope the lads make it right today. 

Normally I let bygones be bygones, but that was just such an outrageous incident that it was a stain on football. Official incompetence, unethical play and then Henry having a line of defenders in the media. On top of that, the worst narrative of the armchair footballing pundit that the whole thing was McShane’s issue, which I always think spike volumes of the type of person that repeated that line.