Republic of Ireland V England - Sunday 7th June 2015 - Friendly

http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-31281955.html

Lovely article here by Reid. Explains that his mother was born to two Irish parents and felt Irish and did her best to instill that Irishness in her kids so the option presented to him by Sadlier and Ryan was duly accepted. Honestly wish he had much more of a significant career in the green jersey. 13 of his 23 appearances for us came before his real breakthrough season, 05/06. And there were games around that time when he was in the middle and 25 years old that I thought he was sure to become a mainstay there, having been a sprightly right-side auxiliary player prior to that.

I heard Martin Lipton on the Second Captains podcast referring to someone in the same position as Reid but with a father born to two Irish parents. Lipton stated "Talk to X- he's English. Talk to his dad- he's English." Lipton stated he was fairly certain that this lad was going to play for England, whatever he knows.

Hard to believe Reid has less caps than Simon Cox. Reid was a good servant to Ireland.

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Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks

Eyes will be firmly fixed on the players during the anthems to see if anyone will do a Warren Barton.

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What did Barton do? Good article here-

Anthem for a new generation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcdnzeoBJT4

Skip to 0:45.

I am sure there is a harmless explanation but it certainly looked quaint - in light of what happened.

Did Barton have a history of blessing himself before (big) matches ? ! ?

Did he have a Premonition that things were going to go tits up and figured this might give him an "in" with the majority of the crowd' (blooming good thinking if so)

Maybe he is a catholic ?

Or a harmful explanation!

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Originally Posted by Warren Barton

The first sign things weren’t right came during the national anthems. The booing started and you got a sense that some of the people involved weren’t football fans.

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http://www.the42.ie/martin-oneill-ir...46777-Jun2015/

Ward available, for better or worse.

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Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcdnzeoBJT4

Skip to 0:45.

I am sure there is a harmless explanation but it certainly looked quaint - in light of what happened.

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If you click share you can set it to start at 0.45, like this

https://youtu.be/PcdnzeoBJT4?t=45s

These Orifices are Going to win, this time...
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Don't know if this was posted elsewhere
"Hodgson revealed on Saturday that the player had asked for talks with the Football Association about his future."

Will you play me?quick quick I need to know before September. I

Team to start: Westwood, Coleman, Wilson, O'Shea, Whelan, Hendrick, McGeady, Brady, McCarthy, Murphy, McGoldrick.

Team Named I believe:

http://www.the42.ie/ireland-england-...47777-Jun2015/

I'm pretty happy with that.

Edit- except where's Long? Surely picked up a knock!

England team:

01 Hart
02 Jones
05 Cahill
06 Smalling
03 Bertrand
08 Milner
04 Henderson
07 Wilshere
09 Sterling
10 Rooney
11 Lallana

Happy that Westwood is starting. Would maybe have liked to have seen us try something with Arter. Hopefully the Ipswich duo will work well up front.

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Originally Posted by DeLorean

I'm pretty happy with that.

Edit- except where's Long? Surely picked up a knock!

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My guess is that he must be in pole position to start versus Scotland and Martin would rather look at other options today.

Straight off the bat, ITV referred to the FAI as "the Irish FA". That always jars with me for some reason.

That was bad idiots booing.

Westwood was one of the few Irish players singing 'Amhrán na bhFiann'. Fair play! Did I hear jeering of 'GSTQ'?

Is Sterling being singled out for booing because of his situation at Liverpool? Jesus wept.

Not a bad showing so far. Things fairly even. We've had a lot of possession and a few chances to score, but it's very low-tempo from both teams, bar a few bursts from England.