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Shouldn't even need this shirt. censored Sep Blatter.

The Shirt of Shame - burn it!

Shirt of shame? Get a life. By calling a player or a team cheaters because of that..then you should call EVERY team or player a cheat who get a foul, use an elbow, offside goals etc. Look at Given. He grabbed Anelkas foot 5 minutes before THE goal but no one accuses him of being a cheat although it was obvious he intentionally did it. See the big picture. Given got away with his and so did Henry.

All I got to say is that the Irish need to grow up. Roy Keane was right. "What goes around comes around" in the game of football. There are calls that are missed in every game and the only way we see it is the benefit of replay, slow motion and better camera angles. Calling a classy player like Henry a cheat is ridiculous. Maybe your defenders should have been marking Gallas.

Those damn rubber stripes or whatever are horrible.

English people,

Don't be telling the Irish supporters and players to grow up. I remember when you's were crying about Maradona years ago. If this would have happened to you again, you wouldn't be so quick to tell people to grown up. You'd be very upset too.

As for people from other countries, it's easy to talk when this situation did not happen to you.

We got f*ucked out of a World Cup spot, easy as that. FIFA talk about fair play, yet they gave a reply in 2005 when the referee made a mistake between Bahrain and Uzbekistan. Bottom line is FIFA wanted France to go through.

Increases handball ability by 50%

This argument is a joke. I was very angry at what happened during the game (handball). However, to say that Ireland were cheated out of a WC place is wrong becuase they were not in a winning position and may have gone on to lose the match. Even if FIFA wanted France to go through, it had no effect on the ref missing the handball. There is no argument for a replay as it could be argued that in every game played the ref will miss an incident that could change the outcome. The Bahrain replay is an exception as the ref actually made up a rule (awarding a fk to the defending team when attacking players encroached on a pen, instead of re-taking the pen and booking players). What Henry did was an insinctive reaction and he would not have argued had the ref whistled. Ireland won a game in the qualifiers off the back of on of the worst pen decisions ive ever seen yet there were no calls for a replay. Some Irish fans are starting to sound like English fans who talk about the 'hand of god' incident. Paul Scholes has punched a ball into the goal before yet they were happy to accept that. All of these incidents are made worse due to occasion, however, we need to accept that these incidents happen in ALL football matches, it was just the timing that was unfortunate for Ireland. I can't stand the french team, and I would LOVE Ireland to be at the WC in thier place....but we need to accept that this incident is about the need to move football forward with technology, and not vilifying Henry and the French team as this was just as typical footballing incident.

The Irish fans need to get a serious reality check. At no point where the Republic in a position where they were going through. Even if the hand-ball had been given then they would still have faced the lottery of a penalty shoot-out. Of course the goal shoudl not have stood but what about the penalty the Republic were handed earlier in the qualifying group against Georgia? The ref gave it for handball and the replays showed it was a terribel decision. I did not see the FAI suggetsing a replay of the game? That decision changed the course of the whole game as Georgia were on top at that stage. People will say its not the same because it wasn't a crucial decision in a play-off match. I don't agree. A wrong decision is a wrong decision no matter what the status of the game. As we so often here - these decisions tend to even themselves out. The Republic shall have to accept that and move on to the next set of qualifiers for Euro 2012.

I bet those stripes help with handballs in some way...

i think the shirt would look so much better without the ridiculous stripes

jesus, can't the Irish give it rest already? You're out, Fance are through, and no matter how much you moan and cry about it, that isn't gonna change. DEAL WITH IT. Thierry Henry- My hero!
Also, the stupid stripes ruin quite a nice shirt