'He turned down an approach from Gordon Strachan to play for Scotland.'
i suppose Strachan's approach did leave him a bit puzzled, "I’m not really worried if you declare for us or not. We’re okay without you".
And "everything we need to know" about McGoldrick: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30732828.html
Originally Posted by Cormac Byrne
'He turned down an approach from Gordon Strachan to play for Scotland.'
i suppose Strachan's approach did leave him a bit puzzled, "I’m not really worried if you declare for us or not. We’re okay without you".
The Daily Record guy might see it as turning down Scotland in favour of an inferior option, as many footballers do.
FAI TV interview with McGoldrick:
McGoldrick says in the interview above there that he's wanted to play for Ireland since he's been a kid, but he says something like, "at the back of all the programmes, I've always had the Irish sign"... Am I picking that up correctly and, if so, what does he mean exactly?
Think he means he always went to the Irish players to sign his programme at games.
From my understanding, he grew up in an Irish family but, being adopted, didn't think he qualified. He recently looked into his birth parents and found out one of them had Irish nationality.
geysir might know better than me on this score, but I believe - like Cascarino - McGoldrick would have been eligible anyway as he would be eligible through his adoptive parents.
Ah I see. Fair enough.
Is he not saying he is from an Irish family but did not know he was eligible because of the adoption thing?
You're a tough nut. One Irish grandparent but no faffing about once the call came. Not good enough. Dual Irish / English but unsure. Not good enough. Very obviously 1G Irish but you don't like as a player. No comment when he says how Irish he is. English born but says he only ever wanted to play for Ireland. Sceptical.
White Irish family, black kid. I can understand where he is coming from. Dave Chapelle.
But if he is adopted and its an Irish family surely he could play once he had been legally adopted - assuming they were an Irish family and they had actually passports or could apply for them.
Has anyone any of his programmes available there handy to see if fixer and stutts are right and cd is wrong.
Last edited by paul_oshea; 13/11/2014 at 12:39 PM.
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He talks in short phrases which may or may not be connected.
"Ive, wanted to be playing for ireland since I was a kid ... on the back of the program.... i've always had the irish sign .... but to actually get the confirmation ... I'm delighted etc"
Means he always had the irish sign, the sign is in the mudra from St Patrick.
it's a calling, a vocation. David had visions of the sign.
you love proving someone right or wrong! I can't even remember what I might be right about. Was it sign meaning flag? I'm not even convinced myself. Still, always happy to be shown to be right, especially when it shows CD wrong.
My guess is that once legally adopted the adopted parents'lineage can count. In Cas's case there was controversy over the FBR though, if I recall right ( a post from Geysir).
A child that is legally adopted has the exact same rights as a birth child. Just think about it for a minute.
There is no way legally that a child can be treated differently in any shape or form, once legally adopted.
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
I like his attitude in that video.
Humble and confident and hard-working it seems.
Wish him all the best and welcome him to the fold.
Seems to be in a similar mould to Leon Best (whatever happened to him? He was doing well at Newcastle a while back)
Folding my way into the big money!!!
Best is at Blackburn I think. Never really liked Best, a schoolmate of Tricky's. He always looked narky at something, as if the world owed him something. He was very unlucky with injury. In a parallel universe he could have 60 caps and 15 or more goals for us.
Surely he's still young?
Is he scoring?
a simple google of course would answer my questions but, alas, laziness has descended upon me
Folding my way into the big money!!!
Isn't McGoldrick double eligible? his birth mother is also Irish?
I could be thinking of another player or just have yet another false memory.
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