FAI Asks for Extra Place in World Cup Finals
Dec 1st, 2009 | By Bock | Category: soccerThe FAI asked FIFA to add Ireland to the list of World Cup finalists as a 33rd team out of 32, giving rise to great hilarity among Sepp Blatter and his colleagues, as well as the world’s press.
I was going to write another long, impassioned, and probably wrong, post about this but I won’t.
Instead, I’ll just ask you a single question.
What kind of a fucking eejit is Delaney?
Is he Fianna Fail?
I actually went red in the face with embarassment when I heard the clip of the laughing by Blatter and the journalists. Could we look like a bigger shower of eejits?
By the way Bock, you might want to know that when I move my cursor from the bottom of the page towards the top, the bottom half of the page goes grey and blocks off the writing. This is probably not the right place to tell you about it, but your post on rearranging the site doesn’t have a comments section.
perhaps the fai should just have gotten over it. we’re a laughing stock now. that delaney is some clown.
What Blatter the blather found amusing was the humility of the FAI, perhaps the shitepot forgets or does not know Ireland destroyed the British Empire. His is now due. The FAI and FIFA need to go.
This is just a stunt by Delaney, playing to the gallery of indignant Irish fans. At least he can say he tried his best. He’s a chancer of note. But at least we’ll get to see Sepp Bladder having to explain away his intransigence once again at a press conference in Cape Town. And this may lead to goal line assistants at the World Cup, and that would be no bad thing.
But Delaney is still a fucking eejit.
You can’t spell fail without FAI.
First FIFA rigged the plays offs to stack the deck in favour of the larger nations.
Then the (FIFA) ignored a blatant act of cheating by France.
And now FIFA toad Sepp Blatter and FIFA – and half the worlds press corp – are laughing at us.
Blatter “absolved” (like Nero) Henry for the hand of frog goal that denied Ireland and more or less blamed the ref.
But if the ref didn’t see it then there is nothing you can do about it really, that’s human error.
If the ref did see it and chose to do nothing about it then you have a massive problem.
Meanwhile, Blatter said that he once pulled a defenders jersey when he scored a goal as a junior soccer player.
Welcome to the bizarre world of football. Everyone, even the FIFA President, have no problem with cheating.
Meanwhile, the draw will be held Friday and France will be in the hat – illegally. They cheated their way to the World
Cup and all FIFA do is laugh at Ireland – and our admittedly, totally absurd request to be the 33rd team.
Delany meanwhile, said that UEFA head Platini was a guest of the FAI at a hurling match and he was very impressed with the use of umpires behind the goal.
Jesus fucking wept.
Blatter said yesterday, pausing for effect like a comedian. “They (the FAI) hasve asked (smirk) can’t we be team No 33 at the World Cup, said in a tone which invited laugher -
which he got, combined with applause. Blatter added and then laughed – “they have asked for that really…..”
See below for what FIFA thinks of one of its member nations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/8387201.stm
Delaney…oh let’s say an utterly embarrassing fucking eejit……even a World Cup gold medal class fucking eejit. Mind you in that sport he’d have to share a spot with Sepp Blatter. Another fucking eejit, albeit a very wealthy one who was lucky enough to govern a sport populated in the main by moronic cheating fucking eejits who fear 21st century technology as a pack of baboons might regard a blaring transistor radio .
Ireland came away from the whole incident minus a World Cup place but with our heads held high, now this donkey turns it into a complete farce by making one of the most impractical and childish suggestions in the history of international sport.
And while he’s at it, perhaps Delaney should remember that even had the French cheating goal been disallowed, the game would have gone to penalty kicks. Fucks sake forget about it, put it in the bitter box and play like they did in Paris every time. Then they’d qualify with games to spare for every tournament instead of boring the bollocks of us as they had in the group stages.
Anyway. Thank fuck for Rugby.
“Anyway. Thank fuck for Rugby.”
Exactly, this bullshit is now seriously embarrassing, Delaney and his advisors, if such exist, should really examine their positions & resign. Blatter is a coniving cheating cunt of that there is no doubt, the cheating was designed to ensure the more glamerous nations qualified, he did this by seeding the play offs. If Delaney wanted to do something constructive & worthwhile he should have challenged Blatter directly on this, he should have called him a cheat and called him out on the whole Fair Play thing being a joke. He should have openly called for Blatter’s resignation and should have called for the Referee & officials to be dropped from the FIFA panel for missing such an obvious handball.
Former Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier, a Frog, said today that Henry did not cheat by handling the ball. It was an instinctive reaction he said. Is Henry a goalkeeper? The only players that “instinctively” handle a ball in football are the head cases between the sticks. Meantime, Henry handled the ball not once, but twice. The ball was going out of play and he deliberately stopped it with his hand and he then touched it with his hand again to line it up for his pass (with his leg, fancy that) for Gallas to bundle over the line.Houllier is talking bollocks. If you have your hands down by your sides in football and the ball hits yours handsthat is not a foul because it is ball to hand. However, if you raise your hand to stop a ball then it is a foul because this is hand to ball. Henry raised his hand to stop the ball. It was premeditated. It did it twice and cheating France will now be in the hat for next Friday’s draw in Cape Town. Meantime, and in fairness. If Henry didn’t think that he committed a foul why did he say last week that a replay would be the fairest option?
DeLaney is the same kind of eejit he always has been – and by providing the common or garden variety Irish solution to an Irish dilemma brazenly and now comically dangled before him by Blather and his cronies, he maintains his own status quo.
So next time Houllier or Keane or whichever else “professional” manager – who has judged the Hand of Henry a part of the beautiful
game – finds his team has conceded a goal to an unseen hand or a penalty through a swan dive effort, that they’ll shut the fuck up about it?
Small mercies if so.
Ah fuck it anyway. Can we not just shoot Delaney, Blatter and Jack Warner? Then watch the rugby.
Sepp Blatter should be fired, his lack of respect for this whole ‘ball handling’ situation is appalling. If the same result happended to Italy, England, or France they would had a replay, or a spot in 2010 WC.
“Ah fuck it anyway. Can we not just shoot Delaney, Blatter and Jack Warner? Then watch the rugby.”
Good idea, and there’s a fine grassy knoll I know of in Zurich to placate the conspiracy theorists.
I would love the possibility that as a compromise our army of unpaid GAA umpires may be decamping to South Africa for the summer. That would be some sight. They would have to give them a green flag though.
“Anyway. Thank fuck for Rugby.”
Stupid and all as this Delaney intervention is, I have to say in the history of Irish sport, the I.R.F.U.’s persistence in breaking the boycott of ‘apartheid era’ South Africa used cause me much more embarrassment.
True. That was appalling, though I’d have to say in defence of the average supporter that their allegiance doesn’t lie with the IRFU. However, your point stands. It was disgraceful of them.
Was this man serious ? I. As your average supporter of Irish football I would like to state that i have no allegiance to the FAI or the clowns that run it
Bock in answer to your initial question. In my opinion Delaney is as big an eejit as it gets. As thick as two brick walls with a pigshit infill. I have heard that the slithering fucks that are FIFA are going to make some sort of a half-arsed excuse for the sniggering fuck Blather today. It might be amusing if they do.
FAI statementDecember 2nd, 2009
The Football Association of Ireland acknowledges that the suggestion of an additional place at the World Cup is not a possibility and has requested yesterday that it will not be raised at today’s FIFA Executive Committee meeting.
The FAI has already clarified that this matter was peripheral, was not raised in any of its formal written submissions to FIFA, and was explored only fleetingly as part of a wide-ranging 90 minute discussion with that body. Regrettably the matter appears to have been singled out in public by Mr Blatter despite his assurances that the meeting would remain private.
Instead of diverting attention, we would prefer that Mr Blatter uses this opportunity to deal with the issues which have been raised formally for the benefit of football worldwide.
1) Ensure that FIFA’s rules cannot be changed mid-way through a tournament, for whatever reason, commercial or otherwise.
2) Introduce video technology for matches at the highest level which has been resisted for too long and which would have avoided the error that led, in part, to today’s meeting.
3) Implement additional goal line assistant referees for all FIFA international matches.
4) In future, introduce stronger sanctions for players involved in match defining breaches of the Laws of the Game.
5) Issue a clear statement that FIFA does not condone breaches of the Laws of the Game. For a man in Mr Blatter’s position to empathise with someone who scored a goal by cheating is inappropriate.
The FAI raised these matters only so that the likelihood of such incidents recurring be reduced and now leaves their consideration in the hands of football’s world governing body
Seconds Out no doubt Blather will add this to his act snigger, snigger……
Indeed Gary, Number five point in above official statment is not exactly right. Henry did not score the goal, Gallas did. Gallas didn’t cheat but Henry did to cross him the ball.
Just one look at Delanys hairstyle is enough. Says more than a million words could.
Tony may have a point here – after weeks of analysis by some of the worlds top football pundits on the meaning it all, and life, no one paused to have a gander at Delaneys hairstyle. But now that Tony has brought it to our attention we can see how it all went so horribly wrong. We can see where things started to unravel.
The hair really is very poor. Has the man no self respect?
It’s like as if a badger died on his head.
I’d like to point out that that was another tony who pointed out the awful hair situation,but,by an amazing coincidence,and through no fault of my own,or at least none that I know of,I also look like a badger died on my head,but I’d like to think of it as a far more appealing badger than the one on delaney,the complete wanker’s head.thank you.
France, who reached the World Cup by cheating, are drawn in a croup containing St Africa, U-are-gay, and Mexico at today’s WC draw.
Might it be that Lord Blather took a “hand” in the draw?
Bladder still laughing did you see the prick at the draw and I bet he’s giving the one next to him one, hope he gets a good dose