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Article: WORLD CUP PLAY-OFFS Anelka's luck leaves Ireland clinging on
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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Ireland0
Attendance: 74,103
France1
Anelka 72
THERE has been much talk of conspiracy in Dublin, of the large
oppressing the small, the mighty the weak, ever since Sepp Blatter
and FIFA shifted the goalposts to hand Europe's blue-bloods as easy
as possible a ride to the World Cup. Perhaps Ireland could have
coped with that. But just when they needed it most, luck conspired
against them too, handing Nicolas Anelka a winning goal and France a
precious advantage in the race to South Africa.
The Chelsea striker, at his brooding and moody worst, had heard
his every touch jeered, his every moan heckled, when his hopeful
shot squirmed off Sean St Ledger's boot and beyond the ...