Players eligible for Ireland

England will qualify this week and he’ll be cap tied in the next international break in November

surprised they didn’t quote TJ saying - James loves the Eire

Maddison will probably still play for England but I wonder if he is looking around and seeing the glut of No.10's that England currently have and will have in the future and think his chances may be limited. If he did declare for us i'd be delighted and have no complaints at all.

Jackie Charlton, Eoin Hand
Johnny Giles. Ireland
Mick McCarthy, Stephen Staunton
Cascarino
Tony Galvin, Niall Quinn
Packie doesn't let em in
North of Ireland
South of Ireland
Only one can go

There’s more chance of Abraham Lincoln playing for Ireland

Nialler wrote:

This is embarrassing. Hes in an England squad like and blatantly wants to play for England. I want noone near or squad in that situation. Even if its Zidane

Does zidane qualify? This could he amazing.

Like the way McClean, Duffy, Barton and many more did? 🤔

Jackie Charlton, Eoin Hand
Johnny Giles. Ireland
Mick McCarthy, Stephen Staunton
Cascarino
Tony Galvin, Niall Quinn
Packie doesn't let em in
North of Ireland
South of Ireland
Only one can go

The O'Shea wrote:

Nialler wrote:

This is embarrassing. Hes in an England squad like and blatantly wants to play for England. I want noone near or squad in that situation. Even if its Zidane

What's embarrassing? No one is seriously suggesting he'll play for Ireland. The only embarrassing thing is people like yourself attempting to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

Calm down fella deep breaths, the newspaper article is embarrassing and they are making the mountain out of a mole hill not me.

That must have been the slowest day of the year for football stories in the Daily Express offices.

If he did switch Chris Sutton would have a coronary. He absolutely loves him and thinks the England team should be built around him.

The reality is u never really know how passionate someone is for the country of their roots. You could never imagine Seamus McDonagh/Gary Breen/Killer doing what Grealish did. We all have cousins across the water and some of them are so passionate about Ireland its embarrassing while others like to visit occasionally but can take it or leave it.

What I can't understand is why anyone would pick England as a career move. From a pure quality of life perspective if you are in the running for a call up to England you are probably well secure money wise, yes u will earn more if u play for England but on the basis u are already loaded why is that such a factor. Once u play with England any chance of a private life is gone! Also there is a lot of competition so one bad game and u could be gone. I'm guessing it is agents pressure.

Maddison may or may not feel passionately about his nationality or he might be deciding the amount of abuse he got over his kit bag just proves its not worth the hassle playing for England. Would it even have been in the papers if he played for us?? ridiculous bag to be fair!!

Also inflated transfer fees do not translate to inflated wages for the player automatically.

It's not me it's you:-)