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Giovanni Trappotoni’s Republic of Ireland team were robbed of a World Cup finals place last night when French striker Thierry Henry broke the Irish hearts with a deliberate control of the ball with his hand to set up an extra time goal for William Gallas on 103 minutes.
Ireland had done everything right during a game [...]

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The Republic of Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni has called upon his squad to play with ‘warm hearts and cool heads’, ahead of tonight’s World Cup qualifying play off against France.
Words were exchanged in a few heated moments at the end of the first leg in a confrontation between Lassana Diarra and Keith Andrews and Trapattoni [...]

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Following a hastily arranged meeting with The French Football Federation Federal Council in Paris, it has emerged that the laughing stock of International football management Raymond Domenech will remain as coach of the French national team.
Standing on the touchline in the pouring rain watching your team failing to qualify for a major final, is quite [...]

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So we are halfway through the first round of matches in Euro 2008 with Group A & B having played on Saturday & Sunday; and tonights’ gamesbeing palyed in Group C – France v Romania and Holland v Italy.
I don’t expect you to be too surprised that I have predicted the results of all four [...]

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The UEFA Euro 2008 Championship Finals are due to begin this Saturday at 4pm when co-hosts Switzerland play Czech Republic.
But the most exciting news has to be that the legendary Danny Baker returns to the 6-0-6 phone-in show for the duration of the Euro 2008 on Radio Five Live.  Surely Danny cannot be sacked for [...]

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