In your opinion, what are some of the greatest giant-killings in football? I’d be much more interested in any answers that don’t revolve around the FA Cup!
In your opinion, what are some of the greatest giant-killings in football? I’d be much more interested in any answers that don’t revolve around the FA Cup!
Most English players are born in England or have English parents. The Grandparent Rule is an absolute nonsense, and Jack Chartlon took it to its extremes. I’m a Scot myself, and I hate that we do it a lot. It means we’ve capped f#cking useless arseholes like Matt Elliot and Nigel Quashie…
Yes, but that’s not the point I’m making. You commented “Apart from most of the Irish team” . That’s obvious seeing that many of their parents had to migrate to England.
Kane’s father is Irish, he likely moved to England for financial reasons. So Just saying Apart from most of the Irish team doesn’t really hold much resonance.
I hear quips like this all the time and wonder how English people don’t see the irony.
I’ve no problem with sons of Irish parents. Every country picks players due to their parentage. It’s grandsons that stretch it too far for me. They’re not Irish, their parents’ parents were…
I just don’t see it as how anyone could be pedantic like that. It’s not as though England are world beaters.
What’s the fixation with England. I’m not English. I just don’t think the Grandparent Rule is in the spirit of the game. It just encourages mercenaries who’ll play for anyone. That and the cursed residency rule…
I studied in the UK in the 80s and worked there in the 90s. I follow English football and England is my second team.
Well then, you’ll know that the ‘Plastic Paddies’ jibe thrown at the Irish had some substance to it. Matt Holland, Jason McAteer and Aiden McGheadie? What were they doing playing for Ireland?
I think we are going round in a circle with this.