What are the stats? Something like 22 years of age. 4 goals and 3 assists in 27 Championship appearances. I’d say Southgate will be beating a path to his door.
The bile that Jack Grealish has got from Oirish fans can’t have enamoured all those second and third generation lads with the Oirish support.
Nor I imagine is the quiet xenophobia in the Irish press about some of our New Irish representing Ireland in rugby.
It seems if the accent or surname doesn’t fit you can’t play for Ireland anymore. Well at least if you’re a reporter exiled to a shithole country and desperate to stay relevant anyway.
I dont think either is a citizen … How long are they here? Think you need to be resident here for at least 5 years out of the last 9 years — I dont think the chaps meet the criteria yet?
He came here for work, helping the Irish economy and proudly has represented this country.
Meanwhile you would rather give bigger kudos to some lad living over in the UK who comes over for a jolly up with pot bellied thirty something year olds at Off the Ball roadshows a couple of times a year. The ROI for the Oirish.