eric cantona: "i’d have hit Henry if I was one of rep. of Ireland player’s. what shocks me the most is that this player, at the end of the game, in front of the TV cameras, went to sit down next to an Ireland player to comfort him - when he had just screwed him"
arsene wenger: "pride of france at the stake if the match doesn’t replay"
thierry henry : "naturally I feel embarrassed at the way that we won and feel extremely sorry for the Irish who definitely deserve to be in South Africa"
bexinte lizarazu: "we're going to go the world Cup, but we go to the locker-room with our heads bowed. It was not something to be proud of. France have done nothing"
robbie Keane: "they're all probably clapping hands, Platini sitting up there on the phone to Sepp Blatter, probably texting each other, delighted with the result, with France (getting through)"
vanables: "the villain is FIFA. it's Sepp Blatter. it's UEFA. it's Michel Platini. it's the FA"
carlo ancelotti: "it was a shame for Ireland and also for football!"
alex ferguson: "he (ireland manager) prepared a team that put in an absolutely magnificent performance. you couldn't ask for better from a coach but it was taken away from him"
emmanuel petit: "the feeling among the French public is one of embarrassment. it was a shamed"
david ginola: 'i do not feel very proud to be French at the moment. the whole world saw it was handball. i am very embarrassed"
duff: "do I think it's a conspiracy? definitely. it's just a joke. it's reminiscent of maradona in 1986. we feel so cheated"
Henry: "the ball hit my hand, I will be honest. It was a handball, you can clearly see it. It was a handball, but I'm not the ref. I told (the referee) but he said to me the same: 'you are not the ref.'"
yet Blatter and Platini, who always preaches 'fair play' and the 'spirit of the game', does nothing...