Ireland ask for extra World Cup place

This is getting extremely embarrassing now.

were you getting this from, please post the link ?

i reckon P Jay is bull sh iting

Who cares if they say Yes! :D

Better we are there than teams like New Zealand or Austrilia!
Who qualify by beating teams of pigmies 25-0!!!

im sorry P JAY !!

i just seen the link www.rte.ie

http://www.worldfootballinsider.com/Story.aspx?id=32773

Australia do not play in the Oceania zone anymore - they qualified from the Asian zone.

denmark won the european chamionship when they failed to qualify through points

db - Its still not as competitive as Europe, too many joke countries in it. Was better when it was europe vs south/ central america.

lol Malay hardly the same thing.

:^0

What an idiot Delaney is.

It's a fair point about New Zealand but that's the way it goes I suppose - weaker countries don't get any better without access to the big tournaments.

Australia beat us 3-0 at home did they not?

New Zealands qualifying group was embarrassing. I was amazed they managed to win their play off. Some big beatings on the horizon in SA.
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/oceania/standings/index.html

db - i'm only joking, well half -joking.

CailiniDeas8 30 Nov 12:13


lol Malay hardly the same thing.



LOL, I didn't say it was, I merely stated a fact, even if irrelevant. I couldn't actually remember the circustances, although I remember the laudrop brothers starring.

Bit of a war going on afair.

;-)

CailiniDeas8 30 Nov 12:46


Bit of a war going on afair.



you never know maybe england i'll get fcucked out for Mr Blairs "weapons of mass destruction" although somehow i doubt it.

irishlad 30 Nov 11:51


This is getting extremely embarrassing now.





Pretty much my thoughts on the subject now too :|

wheres the head in the hands man

lets all give up on soccer now and stick to rugby,racing and gaa

spoers we're world leaders in.

I was as gutted as the next man when that frog robbed us but lets show a little more respect than henry and not look like a wee child crying to his mummy on the sidelines about not being allowed to play because he was beat, albeit unfairly

lets just wait and get blatter and france in the long grass

agreed**gy but if they said yes wud u care? I certainly wudnt!

Delaney couldn't win if he had made no attempt to SEEK JUSTICE, he'd have got pelters for keeeping quiet to protect his UEFA committee role.
As a Celtic supporter and thinking back to the outrageous decision to replay the Rapid vienna game, i think it was worth a try.

I dont like him anyway.

does he have a football background ? a lot of these jokers in these positions don't, but Scotland appointed an ex pro ( a real decent player) Gordon smith, but the tartan army can't stand him.

Played for Waterford Utd afaik.

'Naturally they were unhappy with what happened and asked very humbly whether they could be team number 33,' said Blatter.

'I will bring it to the attention of the executive committee but if we do that, we will also have to bring in Costa Rica.'

Fook me ...anything is possible.

Were Costa Rica robbed of their world cup place as well??

An offside decision cost them apparantly!

just saw blatter press conference now
"ze irish asked to be (hearty chuckle ) ze turdy turd team in ze finals"
massive guffaws among assembled hacks .......he s takin the p iss out of delaney and co .....TV GOLD

bono(never misses an oppertunity) has just voiced his support, no efn chance now.

We need the rev jessie jackson to make an appeal from the usa - he's a pretty good talker

im ashamed to be irish wat a bunch of sore losers

making us a laughing stock now

Asking for the 33rd spot is just ridiculous. As people are aware of here, if henry hadn't **ed in the match, we still could have gone out on penalties. Also, would it be fare on the teams that are involved in the group of 5? Blatter must think delaney is a right muppett.

CailiniDeas8 30 Nov 14:36
Played for Waterford Utd afaik.

I dont think so tony. His Daddy was the chairman of the old Waterford FC club so he may have been a mascot alright

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2004/04/11/story961527695.asp

tbf if we had beaten france we would have won the WC in a canter.

Oh, could they not let this drop? Just do the dignified thing and move on.
Now I can see why Keane has a problem with Delaney. The man has no sense of self respect.

blatter is the only muppet when hes not taken action against henry, fair play to delaney for EXPOSING **S

We have become a laughing stock.What group would Ireland play in and i suppose delaney would want 3 teams rather than 2 to qualify from that group.

They may ask for a bye into the quarters aswell while there at it

its getting sad now. every nation will turn on us. keane next interview could be interesting

It's Kermit and Miss Piggy I feel sorry for. Must be hard for them being associated with Delaney all the time.

Have Delaney and the FAI no common sense and know when to give up. In the space of two weeks they have turned us from a nation universally lauded for its performance in the play offs to the laughing stock of the football world. Will somebody bring them home before thet embarass us any further.

"thet"-- they

sepp was right to have a little giggle
we should get the begging bowl out
irish soccer is some joke
league of ireland has maybe 2 clubs solvent
no national stadium and a group of overpaid prissies playing for the jersey.

Please tell me its not true...........SO EMBARRASSING.......someone tell them to stop!!

Its over, anyway we weren't even winning......!!!

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ireland had the sympathy of the world over the thierry henry hand ball now they are the laughing stock of the world, john delaney has kicked a major own goal here, he should hide in a corner or leave his post over this, embarrassing

More chance of me getting a present from Santa Claus (I'm 59).

The FAI rang me yesterday morning.

Apparently Mr Delaney wants to enter my wife as a '2nd husband'.
A spokesman said that Mr Delaney was not aware that my wife was available for marriage at the time of our wedding & feels he unjustly missed out on the opportunity.
I laughed off their proposal.
Then the FAI rang in the afternoon.
It seems that Mr Delaney has adjusted his position & is prepared to take the backdoor route.

He's a persistent little bugg€r.

All about cash, FAI looking for compensation for not qualifying, would have looked a lot worse if Blatter hadn't started laughing

moneypenny 30 Nov 18:39
CailiniDeas8 30 Nov 14:36
Played for Waterford Utd afaik.

I dont think so tony. His Daddy was the chairman of the old Waterford FC club so he may have been a mascot alright

Think you're right, must have misheard him on Setanta the other week.

Still dont like him.

you deserve all you get for voting the lisbon treaty ..................

In all seriousness
Ireland being belittled in front of those clowns at that meeting is hard to watch. A hurtful word is seldom forgotten...

Delaney is a complete tool. Blatter is a complete corrrrupt tool.

Blatter didn't laugh at us, he made public the FAI'S ludicrous suggestion to the gathering who quite rightly spontaneously laughed at its stupidity and he then chuckled in tandem with them whilst reassuring them (in effect) that he hadn't made it up - the good old Irish, we always bring the intellect of an amoeba and the emotions of a tantrum throwing teenager to bear on every situation.

The FAI proposal was ridiculous, but Blatter is still a despicable individual.
Did he highlight the other proposals the FAI put to him?

Personally, I always felt the FAI aimed too low with their demands.
They should not have asked for the game to be replayed (only 1 precedent), they should have demanded the game be awarded to the Republic 3-0 (plenty of precedents). There was a case in these qualifying games of a game being awarded to Sweden on a 3-0 scoreline when it had been 3-3. Similarly a recent CL game between AC Milan & Inter was awarded to AC Milan on a 3-0 scoreline.

Anyway, I'm off to sue a woman over a field. I might get a million pounds.

FAI Statement



December 2nd, 2009



The Football Association of Ireland acknowledges that the suggestion of an additional place at the World Cup is not a possibility and has requested yesterday that it will not be raised at todays FIFA Executive Committee meeting.



The FAI has already clarified that this matter was peripheral, was not raised in any of its formal written submissions to FIFA, and was explored only fleetingly as part of a wide-ranging 90 minute discussion with that body. Regrettably the matter appears to have been singled out in public by Mr Blatter despite his assurances that the meeting would remain private.



Instead of diverting attention, we would prefer that Mr Blatter uses this opportunity to deal with the issues which have been raised formally for the benefit of football worldwide.



1) Ensure that FIFAs rules cannot be changed mid-way through a tournament, for whatever reason, commercial or otherwise.



2) Introduce video technology for matches at the highest level which has been resisted for too long and which would have avoided the error that led, in part, to todays meeting.



3) Implement additional goal line assistant referees for all FIFA international matches.



4) In future, introduce stronger sanctions for players involved in match defining breaches of the Laws of the Game.



5) Issue a clear statement that FIFA does not condone breaches of the Laws of the Game. For a man in Mr Blatters position to empathise with someone who scored a goal by **ing is inappropriate.



The FAI raised these matters only so that the likelihood of such incidents recurring be reduced and now leaves their consideration in the hands of footballs world governing body.




Jesus lads, stop digging

Recent events confirm that:

Delaney is a donkey.
Blatter is vile.

Nothing new.

I think the FAI statement is a good comeback to be fair, they weren't really serious about the request I'd say, just kind of threw it out there. They weren't to know that Blatter would reveal it to the world and make a joke out of it