from soccercentral.ie
Sadlier bows out
Richard Sadlier has bowed out of the running for the Republic of Ireland’s friendly against the USA despite some odd quotes you may have read on other websites – most notably Sports dot com/irl.
Our friends in Sports.com, a big multi-national with massive resources, appear to have caught Sadlier on the Millwall training ground and handed him the news of his call-up.
A quick chat with Millwall this morning confirmed what they had told soccercentral yesterday that Richard would most likely miss the World Cup -"I see how near he is to tears knowing he is going to miss the World Cup" said their spokesman.
Sports.com broke their story thus:
"This is great news, more than I expected," said Sadlier when the news broke at the Millwall training ground. "I have fighting the injury for the last number of weeks and it did look as if my season was over at one point.
"I was resigned then to missing the chance to make the World Cup squad but now this changes everything. The Millwall boss Mark McGhee has let me play through the injury and this is the reward. It makes all the pain worthwhile."
Meanwhile, Sadlier appears to have changed his tune very rapidly indeed when he spoke to Neil O’Riordan of the Sun.
"I played a few minutes as a subsitute againbst Stockport County and then felt ok to start against Rotherham on the following Monday."
"I lasted just over an hour but I was in a heap afterwards and I haven' trained since."
“I won’t be able to travel because I won’t be able to play again this season.”
“I suppose it’s nice I’m in Mick McCarthy’s thoughts but it doesn’t help my situation because I won’t play again this season.”
Does Richard Sadlier have a twin or perhaps he was asleep when he spoke to Sports.com!!!!!
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