Eligibility Rules, Okay

**bwagner** · 01/09/2011, 11:19 AM

Can we hug ? i need a hug ? Truth be told I hope to jaysus both our teams win Friday :O)

**1st time post** · 01/09/2011, 12:05 PM

Originally Posted by Not Brazil

I'm not "upset" bwagner, I just fail to see the relevance of OF based sectarianism to a debate on international eligibility.

Indeed - sadly, there are a lot of sectarian bigots on both sides of the divide.

I don't believe a few ****s on an unofficial Rangers fans site, spilling their sectarian bile, will have any bearing whatsoever on where players play their international football.

Sectarian bile is par for the course for the OF.

On the contrary, I feel that the support afforded to the likes of Paddy McCourt by Northern Ireland fans might act as a positive influence regarding "nationalist" players choice of international career.

Was mcginn not booed by a good segment of the crowd when coming in the exact same game??

**ArdeeBhoy** · 01/09/2011, 12:40 PM

Aye.
But as stated above by a certain poster, they're 'not' guilty of Hypocrisy...

**Not Brazil** · 01/09/2011, 1:31 PM

Originally Posted by 1st time post

Was mcginn not booed by a good segment of the crowd when coming in the exact same game??

No.

Watch the highlights.

**Not Brazil** · 01/09/2011, 1:32 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Aye.

Were you at the match?

**ArdeeBhoy** · 01/09/2011, 6:54 PM

Yeah, I was there with my pal Alex, but you refused to take my call...

**bwagner** · 02/09/2011, 4:42 PM

Shane Ferguson played for the north under 21s today
they lost 1 -0

**BonnieShels** · 02/09/2011, 6:15 PM

Time for that on Monday... concentrate on Ireland today.

U21s mean nothing. He could still ours.

**holidaysong** · 04/09/2011, 12:04 PM

Was a small bit about the 'eligibility row' on Football Focus on BBC1 yesterday. Included an interview with Shay Given. The BBC were spouting the usual GFA rubbish though unfortunately.

**DannyInvincible** · 04/09/2011, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by holidaysong

Was a small bit about the 'eligibility row' on Football Focus on BBC1 yesterday. Included an interview with Shay Given. The BBC were spouting the usual GFA rubbish though unfortunately.

Any particular reason as to why they decided to delve into it?

**holidaysong** · 04/09/2011, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Any particular reason as to why they decided to delve into it?

They had a segment of the show dedicated to each of the four Home Nations. The piece followed the highlights and reaction to the Northern Ireland vs. Serbia match from Friday. The presenter Dan Walker introduced the report by referencing the GFA. During the piece they had Worthington giving out about players opting to play for another country. Given said he'd like to see an All Ireland team during his interview. It cut back to the studio then and the presenter Dan Walker said that the Northern Irish FA (sic) would obviously not like to see that happen but didn't go into any other detail on why not.

**Mr_Parker** · 04/09/2011, 12:47 PM

Let him know

http://twitter.com/#!/danwalkerbbc

**holidaysong** · 04/09/2011, 12:48 PM

I did at the time.

**DannyInvincible** · 04/09/2011, 5:50 PM

Originally Posted by holidaysong

I did at the time.

Did you get any response? Just having a look at his profile, he generally seems receptive to tweets.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 04/09/2011, 6:28 PM

Both he and at least one other (Joel Taggart) have touched upon this issue previously in their 'Blogs' on the BBC's football site...

**Mr_Parker** · 04/09/2011, 9:10 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Both he and at least one other (Joel Taggart) have touched upon this issue previously in their 'Blogs' on the BBC's football site...

Joel 'Victory' Taggart!

**ArdeeBhoy** · 05/09/2011, 12:02 AM

'Victory'??

**holidaysong** · 05/09/2011, 6:44 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Did you get any response?

No I didn't. To be fair though he was live on TV at the time.

**DannyInvincible** · 05/09/2011, 7:37 PM

Originally Posted by holidaysong

No I didn't. To be fair though he was live on TV at the time.

What an ignorant...

AB; I had a brief scan through recent posts on those BBC blogs but couldn't find any reference to the eligibility issue. You have a specific link?

**Mr_Parker** · 05/09/2011, 7:48 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

'Victory'??

Back in 2007 when FIFA ruled on the eligibility issue, he was one of several who claimed victory for the IFA. He was doing so live on his BBC radio phone-in. He had the then IFA President on too and there was lots of mutual backslapping until someone

phoned in and pointing out that in fact absolutely nothing had changed. He had his parade well and truly ****ed on.