"BELGIUM 1-0 IRELAND
Going into their firth game of the 82' World Cup qualifying campaign Ireland had picked up seven points and were in with a good chance of one of the two qualifying places. The match with Belgium was a match for the Irish who gave only the second cap to goalkeeper Seamus McDonagh.
Ireland seemed to have got off to the perfect start when a Liam Brady free-kick was met by a Frank Stapleton shot that beat Belgian keeper Michel Preud'homme. Controversially though the Portuguese referee disallowed the goal and instead gave a fee out to Belgium. Worse was to follow for Ireland when the referee, Nazare, gave the home side a free-kick in a dangerous position after Eric Gerets had taken a dive just outside the box. In the resulting free-kick Rene Vandereycken hit the Irish crossbar before the rebound fell to Jan Ceulemans to head the winner for Belgium. The Irish could feel very hard done by after the match with a result that in the end robbed them of a place in the World Cup finals in Spain.
Man the ref was a joke. Not big things, but those little fouls that our attackers "made" WFT?!!!!
Again I ask myself what the **** was Pauleta doing playing?! From all our strikers he was the only one that didnt score! He didnt even play!!!
And the goal was a major mistake by Ricardo and again Costinha! That is another question, why was Costinha playing instead of Petit?! Forget the ****ing Porto spine, Petit is 1000000000000000 times better then Costinha and Costinha had already ****ed up.
Deco played like crap, of course big game, has to take charge he sucks as usual. I cant believe ppl say he's a great player.
And now Miguel is injured!!!!
To bad the defensive style of playing wins again. Its sad.But they took the oportunity they had and scored. Congrats.
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Jul 4th, 2004 05:40 PM
Now letes celebrate the end of the Euro 
Great parties we are having here 
) but I don't care 
