Ya but i wonder has he any irish in him...seems fairly dedicated though alright...
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
The pundit for the Brum derby, a Mr.Worthington, that CC wondered might be eligible for the North? It was however suggested that CC's first name & his previous schoolboy affliations made this unlikely!
Though he did claim he was going to approach him in the car park afterwards.
And they have the nerve to suggest we're "the k*ddy fiddlers"!
haha stutts....cant beleive i missed that one!
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Stutts is right. He knows, trust me.
Without the 'e' is the Scottish spelling.
What I just love about all the nay sayers on this board (and thankfully there are less of them with the passing days) is that they are as quiet as mice when England call up someone like Bolton's Gary Cahill, who is more than eligible for us. But it's being going on (with them) for decades - Kevin Keegan, Steve McMahon, Martin Keown. Need I go on, there have been many more.
I hear Prince Harry has an Irish grandmother
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...1287672397.stm
(lol).
Dempsey would have been eligible for us. Grew up in Texas of Irish parentage and could have played with a phone call from the Famous Association of Ireland. Mark my words, there are many many other Irish prospects playing in the US. Stands to reason I suppose with 40 million of Irish lineage.
Dempsey is as American as they come - I really doubt he'd have been too interested in playing for us, especially as he did his apprenticeship in the US. Conor Doyle from Derby is the opposite - player who's over on his Irish passport and would find it a lot more convenient to attend Ireland games than US ones.
How can it not matter how Irish the Ireland national team is though, surely the point in having a national team is that it represents you as a nation ,not another nation's rejects and third generational offspring of those who left this island for good a lifetime ago or more.
Anyway its also a question of our international credibility. Its bad enough being completely dependent n British clubs to nurture our talent and provide them with a living whilst our own national league remains the most pathetic of any country larger than Dublin, but to be dependent on England and Scotland to provide us with the players to sustain a competitive national team is just embarassing. Football fans from abroad I've met who know anything of our national team tend to find it a matter of amusement that at times half or more of our squad havent ever even lived here. I understand that things arent as bad as they were but these new FIFA rules on switching countires (designed for political reasons to shore up the support of their resident dicatator in chief) are likely to lead to the courting of more and more players who have already opted to represent someone else (sure they might change their minds but not for the most honorable resons) At least Jack's plastics had never pulled on an England shirt before even if they might have wanted to. Its all about pretence anyway this adopt an Englishman business and I think its time people grew out of it to be honest
Richard Dunne is quoted in todays Independent as having become aware of Clarks likely availability last August when he met his parents and heard their accents, it does look more and more like the FAI were blissfully unaware of him until then.
I wonder how many more who dont have an Irish sounding name, and are touted on sites like this, or who dont have a Richard Dunne to do the job of the FAI, are out there?
Whether you agree or not with this type of recruitment to the national side, it is stated FAI policy at present to add depth to the squad using this method and there seems to be a worrying hole in their netting procedure.
Last edited by CraftyToePoke; 01/11/2010 at 12:39 AM.
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