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Thierry Henry’s Cruel Hand Kills Irish WC Dreams

Thierry Henry has tarnished his image as a world-class footballing professional. You can say, he took one for the team. Thierry Henry every so gently nudged the ball that resulted in a goal. If it was done with his foot, he would have been Headline News. Which he is..actually, but totally villified and depicted in a negative manner.

Ireland soccer fans have vowed not to welcome this French soccer player ever to their country. Thierry Henry was quick to admit the truth during press conference and explained that it was the referees fault – the referee should have seen it.

Henry was right on his point, however, it showed that Henry is no paragon or god-man – Henry showed his Human Frailty to pressure.France were under extreme pressure to qualify for the World Cup and Thierry Henry’s cruel hands managed it. Parallely, crushing a lot of Irish fans passion.

Fifa has rejected the Irish claim to replay the match. Eventually, both, the French manager and the Irish manger seemed quite relieved to put the blame on the match referee and his assistants. This will trouble the referee and give him a few sleepless nights.

The only thing Henry did, being Henry was not to celebrate France’s victory at the final whistle. Instead he made a show of going over and sitting down on the turf to commiserate with the dejected Richard Dunne, the most heroic of Irish players.

Maybe what Henry did was something that any other player would have done. But Thierry Henry was not considered as just any other player. The question to be asked is would Legends like Zinedine Zidane have done this?