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Up to date | Saturday | nine:38 a.m. International relations continued to undergo on Friday from the reverberations above two soccer matches played on Wednesday.
In Egypt, the BBC reviews that 35 Egyptian protesters had been injured in violent clashes with police officers guarding the besieged Algerian Embassy. Egypt had by now recalled its ambassador to Algeria to examine anti-Egyptian rioting in Algiers this week, which in flip was sparked by a noted attack on Algerian soccer players very last week in Cairo. Egyptians had also gathered on the embassy in Cairo on Thursday right after reviews that followers of their nationwide staff had been attacked by Algerians once a game amongst the nations on Wednesday — which the Algerians won, 1-0.
According to the BBC, Alaa Mubarak, whose father is Egypt’s president, fanned the flames on Friday in “a rare public statement calling for a ‘tough stance’ to be taken against Algeria.” The BBC added that the president’s son said on Egyptian television, “When you insult my dignity… I will beat you about the head.”
One of the Egyptian protesters, holding a sign calling for the expulsion of the Algerian ambassador, told Agence France-Presse: “We should treat Algeria like any country that has declared war on us.”
Omar Abdel Hamid, an Egyptian shopkeeper near the Algerian embassy in Cairo, told the Egyptian Web site Bikya Masr that he was shocked by this response by some compatriots:
They go and try to destroy an embassy, shops and cars? It is wrong and this is not what football is about. We all wanted to see Egypt from the World Cup, but they lost. What are you going to do? Go and destroy our shops and our cars? I can’t believe it.
The two governments seem to be doing little to calm the tensions. According to a report from Reuters, following the Egyptian government complained about Algerian enthusiasts trashing the Algiers headquarters of the Egyptian phone company Djezzy this week — a melee that was apparently captured in this video posted on YouTube — “Algerian tax authorities hit Djezzy with a $596.6 million bill for outstanding taxes.”
Meanwhile the leaders of France and Ireland had a difficult conversation of their own on Thursday. According to a report from France 24, during a European Union summit meeting the Irish prime minister, Brian Cowen,Windows 7 32 Bit Key, suggested to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, that the nationwide teams of the two countries should replay their match. The contested match had been decided on Wednesday by a goal that the captain of the French group admits he set up by illegally using his hand. France 24 reported, “Sarkozy said he was sympathetic to Ireland’s position, but could not support Cowen’s call for restaging the game.”
As my colleague Jack Bell reported, soccer’s governing body on Friday denied an official request through the Irish for a replay. Later on Friday, The Associated Press reported that Thierry Henry, the French player and group captain who admitted once the game that he had used his hand told the press, “Of course the fairest solution would be to replay the game, but it is not in my control.”
Mr. Henry, who said, “I have never denied that the ball was controlled with my hand,” added: “I am not a cheat and never happen to be. It was an instinctive reaction to a ball that was coming extremely fast in a crowded penalty area.”
The Irish defeat has inspired no riots in Dublin, but some interesting responses have come from Irish followers online — including an entrancing loop of the video evidence of the foul, set to dance music. This extra conventional video report makes the infraction quite clear:
One surprising result of watching video of the play is that it makes clear that the French player’s action, while clearly against the rules of the game, was admirably skillful. Oddly, there is one game in which such a subtle tap of the ball with all the hand, followed by a pass to an open teammate flicked off the outside of the boot, would be considered a brilliant and perfectly legal play: Gaelic football. Given the controversy over this goal, it is worth noting that another difference amongst soccer and Gaelic football is that the Irish sport assigns two officials to either side of each goal, to make sure that only legitimate scores are counted.
About the Guardian’s “Football Weekly” podcast, two Irish journalists reflected on the result in a philosophical manner that suggests the French Embassy in Dublin is unlikely to become a target. Barry Glendenning said that while the Irish “have been shafted by a goal that should not have already been allowed,” he added: “I think a lot of Irish people are sort of reveling in this misfortune. You know, ‘Paddy’s always been under the yoke of oppression…’ and he likes a good whinge. We’ll get above it.” (He had also written during the match: “It’s true what they say. Never mind the disappointment, it’s the hope that kills you.”)
Another Irish journalist, Paul Doyle, had this to say about the bright side of being cheated out of victory:
If there’s one good thing that came out of it, and comes out of the continued refusal to use [video]technology,Office Ultimate 2007, it’s the fact that… blatant injustices in something that’s relatively trivial like football teach you to question authority in other domains. So its a good lesson for the kids. That’s what I was telling my son,Windows 7 Home Basic Key, as he was crying into his supper last night.
Later on Friday, Roy Keane, a former star of the Irish team who is now a manager in England, told reporters that he has been “amazed with the commotion” and said that “we’ve been robbed” was “the usual” reaction of the Irish football association to a loss. He added that Ireland’s players should have prevented the ball from even reaching Thierry Henry, who has been one of the most dangerous attacking gamers inside the game for most of the past decade. For good measure he mentioned that the Irish team had recently benefited from a blown call in another match that helped them secure a win. Immediately after that game, Mr. Keane mentioned, no Irish official complained about the referee’s actions,Office 2007 Professional Serial, or offered to replay the game inside the interest of fairness.
For further on this story, read my colleague Michael Slackman’s take on it fromCairo: “This Time,Office 2007 Pro Activation, Egyptian Riot About Soccer, Not Bread .”
Update | Saturday | nine:38 a.m. Thanks to the French reader in Dublin who pointed out that hundreds of Irish soccer fans are planning to protest outside the French embassy in Dublin on Saturday. It still seems unlikely that it will be the target of any violence though. On Friday The Irish Times reported that the Irish passion for protest was nothing compared to that of the Egyptians:
About 30 soccer enthusiasts gathered in front of the French embassy today to call for a rematch of Ireland’s disputed World Cup playoff against France.
Protesters arrived on a double decker bus dressed in green with a frog mascot. They were chanting: “What do we want? We want a rematch! When do we want it? We want it now!” The protest lasted about an hour around lunchtime.