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Sat 11 Nov 2009As a new focus of Irish ire, Henry is the main man
PRESENT TENSE:GRRR. AARGH. What an angry week it was. On Sunday night, Yusuf Islam irked a room full of people. But on Wednesday, Thierry Henry provoked an entire nation. We had been cheated out of a World Cup place. Or, though it wasn’t admitted, we had been robbed of our chance to lose it for ourselves.
By Thursday, someone had started a Facebook site called “Let’s get over the Henry thing and move on with our lives!!!” But we didn’t want that. We wanted to be furious, fuming, incandescent, raging. It was hysterical and it was thrilling.
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