About 3 months after that comment from Burley McCarthy said it was clearly false because nobody had contacted him.
Think he’s safe enough and pressurising tactics from the SFA don’t mean he’s even considering changing his mind.
the kid is not for turning - he is staying with us
Bitter hun cunt Neil Cameron of The Daily Ranger talking about James McCarthy on Newstalk now. Fair play to Ken Early - he’s giving it to him full on.
early has won me over- what did he say?
Yer man was saying Scotland were well within their rights to approach McCarthy. Early said that it seemed futile because McCarthy had made his decision.
Cameron said things may have changed and they were exploring whether they had. Then Early said he didn’t see the need for the likes of Terry Butcher to publicise the fact they were courting him.
Cameron replied that he was asked the question in a press conference so it followed that he answered it. Then Early said given the threats and abuse Aiden McGeady gets in Scotland that he felt Butcher would have been better advised to bat the question away and make any contact in private.
Cameron disagreed with Early and then Early disagreed with Cameron when he said McGeady gets the abuse because he plays with a big club in Celtic.
[quote=“Bandage”]Yer man was saying Scotland were well within their rights to approach McCarthy. Early said that it seemed futile because McCarthy had made his decision.
Cameron said things may have changed and they were exploring whether they had. Then Early said he didn’t see the need for the likes of Terry Butcher to publicise the fact they were courting him.
Cameron replied that he was asked the question in a press conference so it followed that he answered it. Then Early said given the threats and abuse Aiden McGeady gets in Scotland that he felt Butcher would have been better advised to bat the question away and make any contact in private.
Cameron disagreed with Early and then Early disagreed with Cameron when he said McGeady gets the abuse because he plays with a big club in Celtic.[/quote]
good stuff - he seems to have laid up on celtic these days
James McCarthy has just released a statement reaffirming his commitment to Ireland.
Well in son.
James McCarthy News
Wednesday, 08 October 2008
Hamilton Accies midfielder James McCarthy, 17, has decided to re-affirm his commitment to the Republic of Ireland national teams following significant media speculation recently.
James is flattered by the genuine interest shown in him by Billy Stark and George Burley in recent weeks with a view to him being selected by Scotland. However, he is now in his third season with the Irish set up, having already represented them at 17s, 18s, 19s and 21s, despite still being a month short of his 18th birthday. James feels he would be letting too many people down by switching from the Irish at this stage. He is content to end the speculation and now just wishes to concentrate on his club commitments with Accies in the SPL where he is thoroughly enjoying the involvement and demands upon him there.
Hamilton Accies FC are delighted to see our young players gain international recognition with Scotland, having had three players capped at various levels already this season, but would also firmly and fully back young James on this particular occasion. The club are quite happy to support what has been James’s decision. Billy Reid is delighted with the players progress at the club, which has been tremendous considering his young age and feels that the player is fully deserving of the various club and international interest in him.
Good stuff. Everytime I see someone has posted on this topic I fear that he has changed his mind or something. Hope that is the end of the matter now.
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Coincidentally enough, I was just reading it myself. Trying to post it again so it’s an easier size to read. Articles like this are the direct result of the public courting of him in the past few weeks and that’s why I resented Scotland doing it.
This kid’s now going to suffer the same fate as McGeady and get pilloried in the Scottish media on a regular basis and booed and jeered at away grounds. There’s some fooking disgracful comments in the article to be fair.
Instead of taking bitter pot shots at a child some of these cunts might consider whether the rife sectarianism in their country is part of the reason why second and third generation Irish footballers are committing their international careers to us and don’t want to play for Scotland despite being born there.
I was in Glasgow at the weekend and I read that article, its a disgrace. But what else do you expect from the Sun.
Richard Gough was born in South Africa, Andy Goram in England, Don Hutchinson in Gateshead, Nigel Qaushie in London. Plenty more of the Scottish teams past and present weren’t born in Jockland. Another classic piece of journalism by the Sun
It is a disgrace but if anything good comes out of it, it will be the few days that all that “fury”, “anger”, “disbelief” and “hurt” has taken off Ally Ross’s life.
Rejection really hurts
[quote=“messiloney”]I was in Glasgow at the weekend and I read that article, its a disgrace. But what else do you expect from the Sun.
Richard Gough was born in South Africa, Andy Goram in England, Don Hutchinson in Gateshead, Nigel Qaushie in London. Plenty more of the Scottish teams past and present weren’t born in Jockland. Another classic piece of journalism by the Sun[/quote]
Fair point Messi,but all the vitriol thrown at McGeady/McCarthy is down to anti Irish/Catholic bigotry.
Pure and simple.
How dare these wee Fenians show pride in the country their families came from?
Laptop Loyal=Sectarian cunts.
“You all paid your taxes so that his young life might flourish in Scotland” -
Sweet jesus
Fucking disgraceful article.
The more inflammatory bigotry that appears in the papers the more convinced McCarthy should be that he’s escaping that cesspit of Scottish “patriotism.”
What was it that Primal Scream wrote again:
“In every hick town in Caledonia
Across this pseudo nation
You can see the most fucked up scum
that was shat into creation
Where a blue McEwan’s lager top equals
no imagination
You’re hunbelievable
You’re hunbelievable”
Quality response to the initial disgusting Ally Ross article in The Scottish Sun today written by James McCarthy’s uncle:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/scotland/article5019831.ece
Supporters drag Rangers through the mud again
Hamilton Academical 1 Rangers 3 Phil Gordon
What do Kris Boyd, Nacho Novo and James McCarthy have in common? None of
them has any intention of pulling on a Scotland shirt. So, why was it
only young McCarthy who had to suffer an afternoon of abuse that managed
to drown out a howling gale at New Douglas Park on Saturday?
The oddest trio since The Thompson Twins each contributed to an occasion
stained by the background noise that had its roots not in the Eighties,
but the 1800s. The Rangers supporters yet again defied their own
manager, Walter Smith, who has urged those who persist in The Famine
Song to stop ignoring their club’s pleas to end the anti-Irish chanting.
Just days earlier, Smith had admitted his embarrassment in a newspaper
interview by stating: “The truth is, there is still an aspect of
sectarianism among a certain number of supporters.” No sooner had the
words left his lips than the other words were being belted out by the
mouths of the travelling support.
It has been that way all season – at Ibrox, too, since the issue arose.
Almost as a mark of defiance. On Saturday, though, it took on a far more
hostile tone, McCarthy having his every touch jeered because he recently
refused to reverse his decision to play for Ireland, not Scotland.
The teenage Glaswegian also had to put up with graphic visual
demonstrations from the Rangers fans occupying two stands about what
they thought of him, while his name was added to The Famine Song. No
doubt some players view that sort of “stick” as proof that they are
doing a good job if the opposition fans are wound up, but most Rangers
fans would not recognise McCarthy in the street and some even mistook
him for James McArthur, his midfield colleague, because they booed the
Scotland Under21 player when his name was read out.
In an ugly atmosphere, the Hamilton fans – meek as church mice all
season – actually stood up in support of McCarthy and chanted his name.
The rancour spilled over into the main stand, where police spent most of
the afternoon removing Rangers fans who had gone undercover, but who
fell into dispute with the local season-ticket holders once Boyd
cancelled out the lead provided by Hamilton’s Brian Easton.
Boyd scored either side of the interval to steer Rangers away from a
potential upset. The claims that this was the striker’s way of “sticking
up two fingers” to George Burley ignores one crucial fact: it was Boyd
who severed his connection with Scotland, not the other way about. Is
Boyd jeered by the Rangers support for this “unpatriotic” act? Not
likely. At least McCarthy, whose touch and energy underlined why
Giovanni Trapattoni is likely to give him his full debut for Ireland
this month, has stuck with the country that first offered him the chance
to play international football and capped him at four age levels.
Boyd’s reworking of the “Scottish till I die” mantra into “Scottish till
I’m dropped” has taken on a peculiar oddity because of the supposed
desire of Novo to play for Scotland. However, the difference between
Novo and his colleague is that the Spaniard has shown a far thicker skin
when it comes to being marginalised.
Despite everything he has done for Rangers in recent seasons, Novo is
continually left on the bench. He was there again on Saturday, offered
only a cameo role, but made the most of it by racing away after a
blunder by Martin Canning to score a clinical goal that sealed his
side’s comeback.
Burley, though, is unlikely to be pursuing McNacho now that he is free
to take up British citizenship after living in Scotland for seven years
for one simple reason – the player does not have a UK passport.
Boyd showed his customary ruthlessness in converting a 41st-minute
penalty after Trent McLenahan pushed Kenny Miller, but even he was too
sheepish to celebrate putting Rangers in front with a header in the 49th
minute when television showed the striker clearly offside before he met
Steven Davis’s cross.
“I have not liked hogging the headlines in the past few weeks but at
least Nacho has taken the pressure off me now,” Boyd said. “I don’t have
a point to prove to anyone except myself. As long as I keep going about
it the way I did here, I’ll do all right. I knew when I made the
Scotland decision I had to start again at club level.”
Poor Hamilton did not deserve a fifth successive defeat, or to slide to
the bottom of the table, after the perfomance they put in. Billy Reid’s
team adapted to the capricious wind far better than the visiting team,
by keeping their passing game short, and a fine header from Easton, the
left back, another of their home-grown youngsters, illustrated the
club’s ethos.
Reid had enough courage to give debuts to two more teenagers, James
Gibson and Lucas Akins, against a team who were conquering Europe six
months ago. “That is what Hamilton Academical is all about,” the manager
said. “There is no panic setting in. We will continue to play in the
right manner. Some of the younger players are developing so well.”
Next up? Rangers again, in the Cooperative Insurance Cup tomorrow. “A
nice easy game at Ibrox to get back to winning ways,” Reid joked.
“Seriously, if we can’t enjoy that as a club, we should not be here.”
Hamilton (4-4-1-1): T Cerny 7 T McLenahan 6 M Canning 5 C Swailes 6 B
Easton 7 A Neil 8 J McArthur 6 S Mensing 7 J Gibson 6 J McCarthy 7 L
Akins 6 Substitutes R Offiong (for Mensing, 83), M Corcoran (for Gibson,
63 4), D Graham (for Akins, 63). Not used S Murdoch, D Elebert, C
Casement, S Ettien.
Rangers (4-4-2): A McGregor 7 K Broadfoot 6 M Bougherra 6 D Weir 8 S
Papac 7 S Davis 8 P Mendes 6 K Thomson 7 D Beasley 5 K Boyd 7 K Miller 7
Substitutes N Novo (for Beasley, 70min), K Lafferty (for Miller, 83).
Not used N Alexander, C Dailly, R Loy, J McMillan, J-C Darcheville.
Didn’t Martin Bain issue a statement saying the fans only sang The Famine Song as “tit for tat banter” at Hoops fans.
Singing it at this young lad at Hamilton seems to make a mockery of that.
Sectarian cunts.