Your Call: Do you want Ireland or France to qualify for the 2010 World Cup?
Trap v Domenech, Richard Dunne v Terry Henry, potatoes v garlic, Guinness v red wine, the ‘craic’ v staggering rudeness. Yep, it can only be the World Cup playoff between Ireland and France, the first leg of which kicks off on Saturday at Dublin’s mighty Croke Park.
From an Englishman’s perspective, obviously this is the most intriguing of the four European playoffs.
The thought of the French not being in South Africa is confusing. On one hand, I’d revel in the schadenfreude of seeing our Channel-sharing friends miss out. But I would like to see Ribery and co. in action, and I think the World Cup does need the world’s best players.
As for the Irish, it’s hard not to be charmed by their perennial underdog spirit, although when you talk about the world’s best players, only Shay Given comes to mind.
The cheese-eating surrender monkeys should have enough quality to edge this one, but Domenech hardly seems to inspire his players. But on such a big occasion, I doubt they will need their coach to motivate them.
As Alex Ferguson said this week, the first leg is crucial. If Ireland can take a lead over to France, that will make the French incredibly anxious. Will they take a lead to France though? I doubt it and am backing a cagey 0-0 draw, which isn’t such a bad result for either team.
But which of Ireland and France do you want to qualify for South Africa? (I don’t mind either way. Boring but true.)
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France purely because it’s better to have all the big nations in the competition. Sure, nobody deserves to be in a competition based on reputation alone but find me a person who would rather watch Stephen Hunt over Franck Ribery.
Petr Cech,
The further he is from stephen hunt the better.
isn’t Ollie irish ? I’m lost
As I m French i support France.
But i think we should fear O’Driscoll or O’Gara for these games.
Ah it’s football ? Seriously Ireland has a football team ?
I’ve always had a soft spot for the French. I suppose it’s because everyone seems to enjoy bashing them so I guess that’s why I have to like them.
Otoh, I wouldn’t mind seeing Domenech lose his job. He seems like such an unlikable guy.
i would rather watch hunt :D
france
F**k the frogs!!
i wld defnately go for France, coz world cup needs good teams.
who wndn’t want 2 see ribery,henry, anelka,abidal,galas & of course Evra!
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