Originally Posted by
Sheridan
This is something I'll never understand about national team types. They obsess about British football to the exclusion of their own (and other) leagues, support a team entirely composed of players schooled in the British football tradition (the majority of whom, in the case of Italia 90, were born and raised in Britain), who learned their football, play their football and eventually coach football in Britain, and yet whenever the not unreasonable inference that this makes them, in effect, a British team is drawn, they bristle with indignation. If they want Irish football to have a separate and indigenous character, they have a very funny way of going about it.
