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Thu 11 Nov 2009Heartbreak of Henry's hand of God, part II
SOCCER/WORLD CUP PLAY-OFF:A HEROIC Irish performance counted for nothing last night at the Stade de France in Paris where the referee’s failure to spot Thierry Henry’s use of his hand when setting up the night’s decisive goal for William Gallas ended the visitors’ hopes of making it to South Africa next summer.
It was, as they might say on the television, shameful stuff from the Barcelona striker whose carefully constructed public image is largely based on a projected sense of fairness and decency but that will be forgotten by the June 11th next year when France rather than Ireland will be limbering up for their first game of the World Cup finals.
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