Holding onto the bitterness makes a great player angry and small

How to avoid the disruption of a replay

Sing along with the hero of French football

French away goal leaves Ireland with huge challenge in Paris. World Cup qualification prospects recede.

Domenech is nuts

Who knows? Maybe we can beat les Bleus and go to the World Cup finals instead of them. And maybe Ireland will be the first country to invent cold fusion, and send a manned probe to Andromeda.

It’s not that I want to diminish the achievements of England or France in any way.
I don’t. It’s great that two northern hemisphere nations have gone forward to the semi-finals, and I cheered my head off for both of them. Well done England, and Allez les Bleus!
It isn’t that. It’s just [...]

I was going to write something about the forthcoming game with Argentina.
I was going to spout the usual drivel about how my heart tells me one thing and my head tells me another, but then I received a comment from O Sean Ici, and it only seems fair to quote his words, as a sort [...]

Well now.  What do you say about that?
France 25.  Ireland 3.
What the fuck do you say about that?
You could say the referee was very harsh against Ireland, and you’d be right.  He was.
But 25-3? 
Ah no.  He wasn’t harsh enough to account for that.
You could say we were unlucky.
Yes, you could say that and yes, you’d [...]