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2017/18 James McCarthy

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Yeah him and tons of other international players for various teams as well as Ireland.

For example;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_England_international_footballers_born_outside_England

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scotland_international_footballers_born_outside_Scotland

I've never seen you have a go at Pat Van Den Hauwe for playing for Wales. Mate it's getting tedious now, let it go please.
Marcelinho plays for Bulgaria, as did Lucio Wagner a few years ago...

Very Brazilian Bulgarians, both of them.
 
So he was not born in Ireland, has never lived in Ireland. His parents are from Scotland and have never lived in Ireland it but he claims to be Irish.

He is Scottish. The grandparents rule needs to be abolished.

Even as an Irish person I agree that the rules should be stricter.

As a nation we've benefitted greatly from those rules with the majority of our good players over the past twenty years being Brits. When you finally achieve any margin of success the wind is sort of taken out of your sails when you hear a foreign accents giving interview afterwards. It sort of makes the whole thing a bit of a charade.

In fairness though I ended up growning quite fond of the likes of Houghton, Cascarino and McAteer.
 
Yeah him and tons of other international players for various teams as well as Ireland.

For example;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_England_international_footballers_born_outside_England

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scotland_international_footballers_born_outside_Scotland

I've never seen you have a go at Pat Van Den Hauwe for playing for Wales. Mate it's getting tedious now, let it go please.

Using this, I think its an utter joke that Raheem Sterling plays for England, hes simply NOT English.

James McCarthy is also NOT Irish.

Lukas Podolski is NOT German.

And VDH was certainly not WELSH.

There is no doubt whatsoever that James McCarthy was born in Scotland, Raised in Scotland, has Scottish parents and is without question 100% Scottish.
 
Using this, I think its an utter joke that Raheem Sterling plays for England, hes simply NOT English.

James McCarthy is also NOT Irish.

Lukas Podolski is NOT German.

And VDH was certainly not WELSH.

There is no doubt whatsoever that James McCarthy was born in Scotland, Raised in Scotland, has Scottish parents and is without question 100% Scottish.
Sterling was born in Jamaica
Moved here at the age of 5
Has played at pretty much every level for England since a schoolboy
Are you saying that the many many families who come to this country and become citizens are not citizens ?
 
Sterling was born in Jamaica
Moved here at the age of 5
Has played at pretty much every level for England since a schoolboy
Are you saying that the many many families who come to this country and become citizens are not citizens ?

Yes.

Hes not English, he was born in another country....................

His children if born in this country will be English.
 

Using this, I think its an utter joke that Raheem Sterling plays for England, hes simply NOT English.

James McCarthy is also NOT Irish.

Lukas Podolski is NOT German.

And VDH was certainly not WELSH.

There is no doubt whatsoever that James McCarthy was born in Scotland, Raised in Scotland, has Scottish parents and is without question 100% Scottish.

He will reveal his true Scottishness upon retiring, by becoming a Tenants purple drinking, piss stained tramp.
 
Yes.

Hes not English, he was born in another country....................

His children if born in this country will be English.

I really hope you are being sarcastic. Sterling's situation is different. He qualifies due to being a British national having lived in the country most of his life and claiming British citizenship. I doubt he even has his Jamaican passport anymore.

Being born there is not the only way to become naturalized citizen of a country you know.
 


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