It looked deliberate to me. As said before however this is far from a rare occurrence and many equally great players have done it too, and the bulk of the blame goes with the linesman who was either inept at his job or deliberately favoured the more renowned team.
The defense and even praise of Henry however is sickening. A spade is a spade and a cheat is a cheat, this is not the first team Henry has cheated to eliminate another country from the World Cup and while his win at all costs mentality can arguably considered respectable (I would have done the same thing), let's not pretend he's something he's not, and that's a player who isn't a cheating cunt. A celebrated cheating cunt who will go down in history as a great striker for club and country, but as admirable as his attitude was last season, this type of action is not out of character in his career overall and when I hear words like "class" and "gentleman" used to describe a noted whiner and hypocrite who left his wife and daughter under less than admirable circumstances, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
You can consider Henry a very good player and still admit he's of low character, just like Maradona.
