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Remember that time we struggled to break down Liechtenstein. Sh1t happens. Teams like Liechtenstein and the Faroes HAVE to set up a certain way to counteract the bigger teams like France and Portugal. We shouldn't. Our inept performance against Portugal also came just before a world cup at the end of a long season.
Were you full of praise for our result v Costa Rica who we clearly underestimated.
Anyway, this has feck all to do with eligibility.
Aldo' was mediocre for Ireland at best, can't recall who he was up against for a place. But didn't like him for us and once told him to his face. He wasn't happy, but unlike some, he took it!
Never rated him or Townsend for Ireland, but nothing to do with their roots or heritage.
What? You didn't rate Townsend or Aldridge?Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
Jeez there's no pleasing some
Pair of tossers. It happens. Even preferred a certain Corkonian, which is saying something.
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Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
Pair of tossers personally you mean?
I honestly couldnt care what they're like in person once they do the job on the field
Although if you told me to my face I was mediocre at best I think I'd be a bit of a tosser to you
To be fair, if he said it in a Louth accent there's every chance Aldo just didn't have a clue what he said :)
My brother, who has a foot on the autism spectrum, if not two, met Mark Calcavecchia once and said he was a pig ignorant so and so. Then I thought of how my brother has verbal diarrhoea, can never understand personal boundaries and can never get when he is going too far or tell the mood of a conversation. Now, I'm not saying AB is anything like that, but for some reason a burly golfer popped into my head.
Hah, just always came across as tossers playing for Ireland. Aldo' can't have that been bad, he gave me a mouthful of Scouse back, whereas can't imagine Townsend having the same fire in his belly.
Different times, but personally never rated either as an international footballer.
McGrath, Houghton, O'Leary, now you're talking...
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John Daly?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
No, Mark CalcavecchiaQuote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
But he's not eligible...
Unlike Daly?
Plus no idea who he is.
Daly could certainly cover a good chunk of the goal
Calcavecchia won the British open in the 80s and still plays that tourney every year. One of the better golfers of his era. Drinks four pints of beer, no more and no less, every day.
All right maybe he's not great in the silky skills dept. but I thought we were discussing the commitment to the cause dept. which he had in abundance
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Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
heard really interesting nterview bout erskine childers former president. fianna fail had to change the citenzen laws to allow him become a citizen before he became minister as his father who were a strong anti treaty man was executed in 1922 and was an englishmanQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
He became a naturalised citizen in 1938. There was no need to change laws for him.
He became an Irish citizen under the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1935 whose main body of effect was kept in the 1937 constitution.
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Originally Posted by BonnieShels
thank you, The interview said that the act allowed government to bestow citzenship on someone who provided an exceptional service to the country. is that how mcgeadys sons could play for ireland?
That Act exists but it didn't apply to Erskine.
The kids will already have Irish citizenship or an entitlement to Irish citizenship through their father.