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Just for clarification - Furlong was selected and is with the Irish U-21s - never on the list for the full squad Moran is also with the Irish U-21s but suggestions that he and Sinclair Armstrong may be drafted into the full squad after the U-21s game against Turkey on Friday.

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Being assessed by club doctors today in Brighton - doesn't look serious according to reports in Ireland - but he might miss next PL game.

And this is the crux - My mother-in-law was born in England, moved to Ireland in the 1950s to marry an Irish guy - never lost her strong English accent to the day she died - and spent her years in Ireland cheering for Ireland at every sport, and hating on England every time Ireland were...

Off the top of my head - Shay Brennan, John Dempsey, Chris Hughton, Tony Grealish, Mark Lawrenson, Michael Robinson, Andy Townsend, John Aldridge, Tony Galvin, Terry Phelan, Jason McAteer, John Sheridan, Lee Carsley, - Ray Houghton - although born in Scotland he moved to London at a young age -...

There is a long list - but the money stuff comes from Rice and Grealish - both switched because agents (and the English FA) pushed them to over the fact that they would double their transfer value and potentially their wages by switching to England (Grealish's father - after talking about how...

The five most expensive English footballers ever - all have Irish passports.

Ireland has a large diaspora - the product of centuries of colonialism. Scotland and, particularly, Wales have also had a large number of internationals who were born in England (for similar reasons). Unlike the foreign-born Irish (and Scottish and Welsh) players who had a family connection to...

Again - it's not about whether he can or cannot switch to England - IT WAS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN - and I told ye this when it first came up last year.

Well - the 'it's coming home' country has failed to qualify for a stack load of tournaments over the years - 1972 Euros - 1974 WC - 1976 Euros - 1978 WC - 1994 WC - indeed the only thing that has assured England qualification since is the fact that the tournaments were massively expanded. I...

Denmark won the Euros in 1992 - and they didn't even qualify for the finals. In 2002 WC Ireland could conceivably have got to the final - McCarthy f*cked up against Spain - telling the Irish players in extra time to play for penalties when Spain only had 10 men on the pitch and two of them...

England have a lot of good young players coming through - and I think they have the potential to do well over the next ten years. I do think that the English national team need to abandon the whole 'it's coming home' stuff - it reeks of entitlement and that has a tendency to blow up in your...

On the question in hand - Ferguson is back in Brighton and will be assessed by the club's medical staff today. Reports out of Ireland is that there is no indication that it is a long-term injury - but he could miss the next PL game.

Evan has six caps for Ireland - under the rules he cannot change - But the entire discussion is nonsense - there was never any chance that Evan Ferguson was going to switch to England if you knew the first thing about him you would know that.

Any 'fan' from Northern Ireland sitting in the English section that night was a loyalist thug down to cause trouble.

on BBC gossip - Man City are after Ferguson

Nah - the B international did not stop Steve Bruce playing for Ireland - that was down solely to Alex Ferguson, who threatened Bruce that he would never play for Man U again if he declared for Ireland because he would be treated as a foreign player under the 3 foreign player rule after the...

In my experience - when it comes to English fans - this is rarely, if ever a joke. Over the years many, many, English fans tend to adopt an arrogant attitude in relation to the Irish team - a throwback to centuries of colonial domination - and seem to believe that the only reason why Ireland...

Of course I have a political agenda - opposition to fascism 'Football is not a matter of life and death... its much more serious than that'.