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.
Last edited by Olé Olé; 06/06/2015 at 3:44 PM.
Hard to believe Reid has less caps than Simon Cox. Reid was a good servant to Ireland.
What did Barton do? Good article here-Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
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!
http://www.the42.ie/martin-oneill-ir...46777-Jun2015/
Ward available, for better or worse.
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...
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
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
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/
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist thinks it will change; the realist adjusts the sails.
I'm pretty happy with that.
Edit- except where's Long? Surely picked up a knock!
Last edited by DeLorean; 07/06/2015 at 11:09 AM.
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.
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.
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
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.
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