A Dutch fella told me that next year the World Cup would be in Holland. I told him he could be right, because with Schiphol being the large inter-continental air travel hub that it is, that flights to Dublin from Tokyo may have to stop over in Amsterdam to refuel.
This is an age old argument. Were Aldridge, Townsend, Houghton, Cascarino any less Irish than Quinn, O'Leary or Bonnar?
I think there just needs to be consistency.
However you tend to develop a different viewpoint when you don't live in Ireland. I live in Australia, have a German-Armenian wife and hypotethically our son could play for 4 countries. Would I like him to play for Ireland? Yes. Would he be less worthy than some bloke who played ball in St Annes Park? No. End of argument. The rules are the rules.
People are pi**ed with Morrison because he publically declared that he was holding out for an offer from England & only took the irish offer when all hope of England capping him had ended!
Also just beacuse we filled out squad with players with dubious irish links in the past (& became the butt of numerous jokes) doesn't mean we should continue the policy. Should we not learn from the mistakes made in the past?
Morrison is an average player who hit a bit of form for part of last season. He played 2 u-21 games & failed to score in either. He plasy with a poor english 1st division team. Why if hes so good has he not been snapped up by a top team this summer?
It's interesting looking back at what people were saying 8 years ago about Ireland. None of them saw what was going to happen to that side in the next couple of months and years!
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