When you look at how many players for all the british teams qualify for more then one nation it just comes across as sour grapes. Irelands best ever spell under charlton was a team full of english players
Nels8192 on
Also r/soccer when England fans return the boos of a rival’s national anthem.
Diligent-Ad6012 on
It’s a bit different when that player has already pledged alliegence to ROI and played for every youth team I can kind of understand them thinking he’s a cunt.
_Spiggles_ on
Quick check of where he was born. Would you look at that, he’s English.
Embarrassed-Gas-8155 on
I can understand thinking less of players who’ve played through the youth systems and talked up their support just to jump ship for a local rival.
If it was club football, I don’t think anyone would be the least surprised by it.
Nevermind that the “local rival” in this case happens to be a country that had occupied and oppressed the other relatively recently.
It’s really not hard to see why, I’m shocked anyone is even slightly surprised.
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Jarv1223 on
Rice has scored
HAHAHAAHAHAH *inhale* AHAHAHAHHAHA
OkraEmergency361 on
*chucks all the toys outta the pram*
Much-Tadpole-3742 on
Ireland is the England B team🤣🤣
forever in our shadow
DontWaveAtAnybody on
Any reasonably self aware person would understand exactly why Rice is getting boos from Irish supporters.
No comments on Lee Carsley refusing to sing the English National anthem?
Expensive-Pitch-9502 on
The irony of it all is brilliant. They’ve had so many English players play for them other the years and their most successful manager was English.
I’d understand it if they had thick Irish accents but Rice is a cockney and Grealish is as brummy as they come 🤣
elvenmage24 on
I think it’s more playing senior games and acting all Irish only to switch at the first chance
AcanthisittaBig2541 on
Northern Irish fans when players choose Ireland over Northern Ireland lol
JerkyOnassis on
Rice & Grealish both score against Ireland. Ha!
Cov_massif on
You couldn’t write the goalscorers, wonder what the odds were of both of them scoring??
Dangerous_Stand_2867 on
Rice is the only one that’s a disgrace and the stupid rule letting him change teams coz it was on friendlies. No problem with grealish, Ireland have taken plenty of youth players from northern Ireland and england before
yay-its-colin on
Ireland fans seeing Rice scoring against them after he was kissing the Irish badge only a few years ago.
Edit: but most don’t actually give a shit. The Ireland national team have had 2 good performances in 24 years. The FA in the country is so poorly managed that they’ve destroyed football in the country, and most fans know this. It’s just fun to communally Boo/Cheer something innit
Financial-Bed7467 on
The Irish have been living on England, Welsh and Scottish scraps for decades.
ERichesstore_BodyCar on
Loool this is too
Funny 🤣
Internetolocutor on
To be fair both of them are actually English
WTWanderer2 on
Irish fan here, the build up to this match was embarrassing and shows the state of Irish football. All anyone was talking about was Rice, Grealish Carsley and England. Not a mention of our own new manager Hallgrimsson. Not a thing about our own players just obsessed with England
The COYBIG sub was full of England centred content and shitposts about Rice and Grealish
Wait till next week and half that 50000 stadium who were giving those lads stick will be supporting them for their premier league clubs.
Last night my side Bray Wanderers lost to Longford in front of 250 people. Maybe if Irish people supported our Irish clubs we wouldn’t have to rely on dual nationals????
Also on Carsley, it’s such an embarrassing argument when our greatest and most loved manager Jack Charlton literally did with us what Carsley is doing there.
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When you look at how many players for all the british teams qualify for more then one nation it just comes across as sour grapes. Irelands best ever spell under charlton was a team full of english players
Also r/soccer when England fans return the boos of a rival’s national anthem.
It’s a bit different when that player has already pledged alliegence to ROI and played for every youth team I can kind of understand them thinking he’s a cunt.
Quick check of where he was born. Would you look at that, he’s English.
I can understand thinking less of players who’ve played through the youth systems and talked up their support just to jump ship for a local rival.
If it was club football, I don’t think anyone would be the least surprised by it.
Nevermind that the “local rival” in this case happens to be a country that had occupied and oppressed the other relatively recently.
It’s really not hard to see why, I’m shocked anyone is even slightly surprised.
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Rice has scored
HAHAHAAHAHAH *inhale* AHAHAHAHHAHA
*chucks all the toys outta the pram*
Ireland is the England B team🤣🤣
forever in our shadow
Any reasonably self aware person would understand exactly why Rice is getting boos from Irish supporters.
No comments on Lee Carsley refusing to sing the English National anthem?
The irony of it all is brilliant. They’ve had so many English players play for them other the years and their most successful manager was English.
I’d understand it if they had thick Irish accents but Rice is a cockney and Grealish is as brummy as they come 🤣
I think it’s more playing senior games and acting all Irish only to switch at the first chance
Northern Irish fans when players choose Ireland over Northern Ireland lol
Rice & Grealish both score against Ireland. Ha!
You couldn’t write the goalscorers, wonder what the odds were of both of them scoring??
Rice is the only one that’s a disgrace and the stupid rule letting him change teams coz it was on friendlies. No problem with grealish, Ireland have taken plenty of youth players from northern Ireland and england before
Ireland fans seeing Rice scoring against them after he was kissing the Irish badge only a few years ago.
Edit: but most don’t actually give a shit. The Ireland national team have had 2 good performances in 24 years. The FA in the country is so poorly managed that they’ve destroyed football in the country, and most fans know this. It’s just fun to communally Boo/Cheer something innit
The Irish have been living on England, Welsh and Scottish scraps for decades.
Loool this is too
Funny 🤣
To be fair both of them are actually English
Irish fan here, the build up to this match was embarrassing and shows the state of Irish football. All anyone was talking about was Rice, Grealish Carsley and England. Not a mention of our own new manager Hallgrimsson. Not a thing about our own players just obsessed with England
The COYBIG sub was full of England centred content and shitposts about Rice and Grealish
Wait till next week and half that 50000 stadium who were giving those lads stick will be supporting them for their premier league clubs.
Last night my side Bray Wanderers lost to Longford in front of 250 people. Maybe if Irish people supported our Irish clubs we wouldn’t have to rely on dual nationals????
Also on Carsley, it’s such an embarrassing argument when our greatest and most loved manager Jack Charlton literally did with us what Carsley is doing there.