Irish bookie to ignore Henry goals at World Cup

Soby

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/robkelly/100006494/world-cup-2010-is-this-irish-bookie-being-petty-over-thierry-henry-probably-but-its-hilarious/

When Thierry Henry gave France a helping hand in their World Cup play-off second leg against the Republic of Ireland in Paris in November, the public outpouring of anger towards the Barcelona striker dominated the news agenda for weeks.
The FAI, Ireland’s stricken players and even Irish politicians demanded Fifa and France accede to a replay in an effort to right such an obvious wrong. Realising that it would set a dangerous precedent, Fifa unsurprisingly refused to capitulate, while the French did what they do best: namely shrug enigmatically and dismiss Ireland’s anger with a dismissive wave of the hand.
The anger, irritation and heartbreak over the Hand of Gaul/Hand of Henry incident has died down now in the most part. With the World Cup just over two months away, most observers are looking forward with relish towards the World Cup, while consigning the distasteful events in Paris to the dustbin of the past. Most, but not all.
According to breaking news.ie, one betting firm, Bodog.com, is taking a (hilarious) stand against Henry in South Africa this summer. The company’s European managing director, Keith McDonnell, is Irish and has insisted that he will not enjoy the tournament with Henry playing a part.
Therefore, this summer any Bodog.com customer can place a bet and be assured that any goal that Henry scores will not count against them. So if a customer backs France to draw 0-0 with Uruguay on June 11, but Henry scores the only goal in a 1-0 win for Les Bleus, Bodog.com will pay out on a 0-0 draw. However, if a customer bets on France to win then Henry’s goals will still count.
“I want to enjoy the World Cup, and the only way I can do that is if Thierry Henry is no longer part of it,” McDonnell said. “He has already ruined my World Cup, and I want to make sure he can do no more damage.”
Utterly petty, but absolutely fantastic at the same time. My favourite story about the World Cup so far, by a long way

Pritty funny..And the fact if you bet on them to draw and he scores is pritty good :P

monkey9

Love it!! I know it's completey petty, but so what!!!

SlickRic

so pathetic.

yet I have a strange admiration for the man at the same time.

OPENROAD

I love you Thierry.

Ush1

My girlfriend told me about this and i thought she was jokin. I mean, so petty and not gonna make any difference.

Chucky the tree

A marketing ploy even Paddy Power would be impressed with. Bodog isn't Irish btw.

flahavaj

Chucky the tree wrote: »

A marketing ploy even Paddy Power would be impressed with. Bodog isn't Irish btw.

Yup. I'd never even heard of Bodog before tonight. Quite brilliant.

adamski8

its not petty, its advertising!

Mr Alan

sad sad sad

kryogen

as has been said, Bodog isnt irish, and it seems to be a marketing idea tbh

OPENROAD

The European MD is Irish according to the article or maybe I have misread it.

kryogen

OPENROAD wrote: »

The European MD is Irish according to the article or maybe I have misread it.

so the article says yeah, but the point being that bodog is american and it just smacks of marketting to generate business fromt he WC, bet paddypower is going mad though

dreamers75

kryogen wrote: »

so the article says yeah, but the point being that bodog is american and it just smacks of marketting to generate business fromt he WC, bet paddypower is going mad though

Doubt it fairly sure PP will have some offer that will trumph this and actually give value to us idiots who bet on football matches.



****ing Kevin Phillips cost me €2500 today but im not bitter

kryogen

dreamers75 wrote: »

Doubt it fairly sure PP will have some offer that will trumph this and actually give value to us idiots who bet on football matches.



****ing Kevin Phillips cost me €2500 today but im not bitter

genuinely, i feel for you, tough break, but today has cemented Philips (and Almunias) legendry stauts to me!

flahavaj

dreamers75 wrote: »

Doubt it fairly sure PP will have some offer that will trumph this and actually give value to us idiots who bet on football matches.



****ing Kevin Phillips cost me €2500 today but im not bitter

Jesus what was the bet?:eek:

jesus_thats_gre

Quite a good money making ploy.

Soby

ye sorry its the owner who is irish

dreamers75

flahavaj wrote: »

Jesus what was the bet?:eek:

9 team accumulator, tbh makes my saturday interesting altho killed any interest in the united game when Philips scored in the 90th minute to ruin my bet


not bitter "far-hee" had a good game

flahavaj

dreamers75 wrote: »

9 team accumulator, tbh makes my saturday interesting altho killed any interest in the united game when Philips scored in the 90th minute to ruin my bet


not bitter "far-hee" had a good game

Sickener all the same, 9 team accums don't come in or even close all that often. Pity:(

noodler

Ush1 wrote: »

My girlfriend told me about this and i thought she was jokin. I mean, so petty and not gonna make any difference.

ADVERTISING

Mr Alan wrote: »

sad sad sad

naive naive naive

starbelgrade

Kevin Phillips doesn't usually score until after the game.

Mezcita

Soby wrote: »

Pritty funny..And the fact if you bet on them to draw and he scores is pritty good :P

Jesus wept. It's "pretty" as in "The pretty bar maid seduced me with her pretty 36DD tit.s before enchanting the bejayzus out of me in their pretty beer garden".

On topic: I hate France.

GLaDOS

Petty as you can get, and I love it

Mr Alan

noodler wrote: »

ADVERTISING




naive naive naive

I know exactly wat it is, still doesn't make it any less sad.

flahavaj

Mr Alan wrote: »

I know exactly wat it is, still doesn't make it any less sad.

If you know its merely an advertising ploy and publicity stunt then how is it sad?

Mr Alan

when i say sad, i mean pathetic, as opposed to sad, boo hoo sad. i thinks its that cause its designed to play upon the ridiculous state of self pity this country went into after that game, and that a lot of people still have.

flahavaj

Mr Alan wrote: »

when i say sad, i mean pathetic, as opposed to sad, boo hoo sad. i thinks its that cause its designed to play upon the ridiculous state of self pity this country went into after that game, and that a lot of people still have.

I knew you meant that meaning of sad.

I just disagree, its just to get people talking and get the name of the company out there. Which this thread proves it has done, even the people calling it sad are at least talking about it. No such thing as bad publicity etc etc.

CHD

Theres a thread on it. Advertising wins.

Mr Alan

see the fact that its successful in wat its trying to do, doesn't make it not pathetic.

CHD

Mr Alan wrote: »

see the fact that its successful in wat its trying to do, doesn't make it not pathetic.

Yup, totally agree. If you need a example of pathetic look at Liverpool FC.

OPENROAD

CHD wrote: »

Theres a thread on it. Advertising wins.

Hard to quantify though, how many new accounts will they have as a result of this thread?

CHD

OPENROAD wrote: »

Hard to quantify though, how many new accounts will they have as a result of this thread?

17 prob. I quantified it just there.

Ush1

OPENROAD wrote: »

Hard to quantify though, how many new accounts will they have as a result of this thread?

Doubt that many, i certainly wont.

TonyD79

Reckon Henry will score a winner in a game but the goal going down as an OG due to a slight deflection!!!!

RichTea

All this Thierry Henry stuff is long past its sell by date.