Anyone read McAteer's diary in the independent? I know he's a few sambos short of a picnic but the lad really let himself down this time. For the man who is reported to have said on seeing a photo of Alex Higgins in a pub 'One hundred and eighty' i feel a mixture of anger and sympathy.
He admits playing unfit v Cameroon, wasting a player for us and jeopardising his world cup campaign thru sheer impatience. He admits lying to McCarthy about being fit. He also admits dodging treatment for two days before the German game so that McCarthy would have no report from the medical staff that he was unfit! The lad is a feckin eejit, and the fact that he puts this along with an admission that he cried and packed his bas for home when he was dropped for the German game is a bleedin joke!
