...it is clear as day and night that Henry handled the ball before he passed it on to Gallas who scored. Henry has admitted he di that. Who is to blame? Should the match be replayed?

...This match should be replayed. How does the team feel going to South Africa knowing that they cheated in a crucial match? What about the credibility of Thiery Henry?

Thats the exact reason i hate this game. There is one man called the referee,if he didnt see it,it didnt happen.

For fairness' sake,I think Fifa should replay the game,even if it means at the same stadium ( Stade de France). The Football Association of Ireland have already submitted an appeal to FIFA demanding for the same.
Still,I think that the broader message to the footballing authorities could not be clearer; it is time to adopt technology for use in the game. By this I mean things such as video replays for selected incidents in the penalty area and goal line technology. It's such a shame that football remains stuck in a bygone era when sports such as rugby,athletics and tennis have moved on.
Incidentally,the popularity of these three sports is increasing worldwide,putting paid to FIFA's argument that use of such technology would result in a much less appealing game.
And let people stop blaming Thierry Henry for what he did....the stakes for that game were so high that anyone of us would have done the same thing

Henry was quite out of place by celebrating that goal the way he did while knowing quite well what he did!

..we all know that TH is an honest player in all his career but last night wasthe total opposite.I agree with that there should be a replay...c'mon for the sake of Fairplay

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...for the sake of their name,the French should request for a replay!!! Otherwise from now henceforth their players will have it very rough and in the world cup they will not be that welcome...

why did the offside by Nigeria (against Kenya),not elicit this much furore? Shouldn't that match be replayed as well?

The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less

Marty...the replayed match was between Arsenal and Shefield United...bt i have to agree with Djinn on this one,Nigeria scored two offside goals against Kenya shouldn't that match be replayed as well? Remember Maradona's 'hand of God' the match was never replayed...
Football is football there will always be controversy,but if we replayed every game that had a questionable decision in it would ruin football and most leagues would take about more than one year to be completed due to games being replayed over and over. Deal with it. That game had a referee...
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As usual and once again,we blindly fall into partisan emotion fanned by Reuters,CNN and other Anglo-American stooge channels. Think through this logically and ask yourself the following questions:

1. Is qualification to the World Cup determined by one match? Each team in Europe for example must have played at least 10 matches in total. It is the sum total of the matches that determines qualification. These matches got France and Ireland to this last match.

2. So related to question 1 is: How many of the 10 matches that each team played had a handball that the ref did not see,a genuine penalty that was not awarded,a free kick outside the box not awarded,a potentially dangerous corner that was not awarded etc etc? Technically,any such match had an impact on who played in the playoff.

Heck,maybe even Ireland would not even be the team playing France if the ref caught everything that happened in their matches. Will they appeal for the sake of the teams that did not make it?

3. Extrapolate this rationale now beyond Europe to the rest of the world and even Kenya might have a case as someone here has mentioned. Maybe we need to watch the footage of the Mozambique-Tunisia match in detail to see whether Mozambique deserved to win,then we appeal one or two decisions in our own match,combine the two and we might actually qualify for the World Cup!

The ref didn't see it. Too bad. Those are the rules today. This unholy Amero-Anglo-Irish alliance wailing all over the place should cut the crap and shelf the hypocrisy.

In fact,I am willing to bet that at least one of the goals scored by England and/or Ireland through the campaign was offside. And I am sure they requested for a replay in keeping with their 'honorable' tradition right?

A replay will set a bad precedent and if applied fairly and retroactively lead to a bottomless pit of replays. Else,if only applied to this one match,a replay would be unfair in the grand scheme of things. And FIFA knows it though they seem to be bowing to media pressure.

What Henry did was wrong but what I see is a lot of hypocrisy.

@flywhisk - I also was in an area with a blackout and listened on radio - it DID result in a goal which,IMHO was the game changer....we had those guys sweating - actually I think by the second half they were shitting bricks!

The problem with equality is that we desire that it be with those that have more than us rather that those that have less