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Stephen ireland withdraws from squad

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Mr Alan wrote:
    Unfortunately Bazmo i dont have access to anything on the net in work other than Boards.ie
    Any chance we could get something done about that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    DesF wrote:
    Any chance we could get something done about that?

    Do you mean get boards.ie blocked as well as everything else?! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    DesF wrote:
    Any chance we could get something done about that?

    Desmond, thats not nice :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Now, you see, you always think people are picking on you.

    What I meant to say, and I'm sorry if it was a bit ambiguous, I swear, was that it would be nice if you could access other stuff on the net, and if there was anything, we, as a friendly community, could do to help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    DesF wrote:
    Now, you see, you always think people are picking on you.

    What I meant to say, and I'm sorry if it was a bit ambiguous, I swear, was that it would be nice if you could access other stuff on the net, and if there was anything, we, as a friendly community, could do to help.

    Liar! You meant the other


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    DesF wrote:
    Now, you see, you always think people are picking on you.

    What I meant to say, and I'm sorry if it was a bit ambiguous, I swear, was that it would be nice if you could access other stuff on the net, and if there was anything, we, as a friendly community, could do to help.

    wat can i say des, i apologise-guess all the negativity aimed at me around here is finally getting to me :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Devious


    ntlbell wrote:
    "get out of playing"

    Do you want players playing for Ireland who are only playing because they couldn't "get out of playing" ?

    bizzare!

    Wrong choice of words maybe. Im just saying that, in certain circumstances, a player might decide he doesn't want to play in a particular international (e.g. not wanting to travel, wanting to go out on the pi$$ etc which aren't valid reasons for not wanting to play) and this could give them an easy excuse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_2802067,00.html
    IRELAND `TEASED ABOUT HAIR TRANSPLANTS`

    Stephen 'Daddy Dick' Ireland is reportedly set to quit international football because his Irish team-mates teased him about apparent hair transplants.

    The Irish Mail on Sunday reports that two unnamed team-mates pinned him to the floor on the night before Ireland's game in Slovakia last month, and tried to see if the sudden appearance of a fringe was down to artificial means.

    What is in no doubt is that last season Ireland had a rapidly receding hairline, while in recent times he appears to be sporting a fringe.

    Indeed, the Daily Telegraph claims 'it was not clear to the casual observer that he was there (at Ireland training) at all until coach Kevin MacDonald praised him loudly for a good piece of footwork.'

    The FAI deny the incident took place.

    It has been strongly denied that it was Andy Reid who sat on him while the check was made :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    While I'd take anything that F365 says with a huge pinch of salt I'd be very surprised if he didn't get a sh1tload of stick when he arrived at the training camp with his new syrup.

    It must be poxy going bald at 21 but getting implants is just looking for trouble.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    While I'd take anything that F365 says with a huge pinch of salt I'd be very surprised if he didn't get a sh1tload of stick when he arrived at the training camp with his new syrup.

    It must be poxy going bald at 21 but getting implants is just looking for trouble.

    True but the UK Times has the story too....

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/euro_2008/article2659431.ece
    International prospects of Stephen Ireland get a touch hairy
    Russell Kempson Dublin

    Fears were growing last night that Stephen Ireland, the troubled Manchester City midfield player, will give up international football at the tender age of 21.

    The player is already on temporary “leave”, having withdrawn from Ireland’s squad for the European Championship qualifying matches at home to Germany and Cyprus, after missing the previous international week amid sensational developments in which he misled his club and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) about the reason behind his unavailability.

    He claimed that a grandmother had died before finally admitting that he had withdrawn from the squad because his girlfriend had suffered a miscarriage. Although still playing for City, he is receiving counselling for his problems and his club have enlisted specialist help from the United States.

    Newspaper reports in Dublin at the weekend claimed that the reason that Ireland put his international career on hold was that he had been mocked by his Ireland colleagues over an alleged hair transplant or his wearing of a hairpiece.

    This taunting, it was said, degenerated into two teammates pinning him to the floor and attempting to remove the “evidence”. It is understood that Ireland’s distress at the reports could shatter his recovery. “If this goes on, there’s now a great fear that Stephen will retire from Ireland for good,” a source said. Another source told The Times that it was “more basic ribbing but he took it really badly”. The FAI denied that any bullying took place.

    Hairpiece involved too!

    Hair-iffic treatment of a team mate though!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    It must be poxy going bald at 21.
    Yeah, it is.:(:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    DesF wrote: »
    Yeah, it is.:(:(

    it's a long time since you seen twentybleedinonecheif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    ntlbell wrote: »
    it's a long time since you seen twentybleedinonecheif
    Seven years yeah.:)

    But, I was going baldy seven years ago, I was going bad in my teens ffs.

    I never got in a strop with my buddies over it though, and they used to give me a fierce slagging. Guess I must have thicker skin than others (especially on my forehead).

    Baldness is due to a high testerone level.

    It's also genetic, my two Grannies were bald, so that's where I got it from.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Oh, and, it could be worse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    DesF wrote: »
    Oh, and, it could be worse.

    That's what he gets for not bleaching it anymore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    so can i take it that this casts doubt on the miscarraige story as well? :mad:

    i'm beginning to think this guy is not worth the hassle. its been non stop since day one with him. the FAI and to be fair, Bobby Staunton, have handled this guy with sensitivity and he has thrown it back in their faces.

    time to cut our losses?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    DesF wrote: »
    Oh, and, it could be worse.

    could be a hell of a lot worse


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,111 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    The guy already has 2 kids(first at 15) and just broke up with the mother 6 months ago. This new missus is meant to be a right bitch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,296 ✭✭✭✭gimmick


    so can i take it that this casts doubt on the miscarraige story as well? :mad:

    That is the rumour going around down here since that story came out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    psi wrote: »
    IN ANY CASE, there has been alot of personal attacks on the player here, calling him whatnot. What he did may be called into question, but attack on the intelligence, morality or any other personality trait of he or his family will not be tolerated.

    Just in case you think I'm kidding, I'll be handing out 2 month bans on this thread for those who ignore this warning.

    Rasta banned - 2 months.

    I wasn't joking


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    According to a couple of the lads on the City fans forum Ireland has paid the FAI back the money they forked out for that private jet to take him home. No official as of yet though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    FFS this is the kind of thing you'd expect from group of seconary school kids. If the guy has got himself some hair then they could have left him alone about it. He'll get a slagging for losing his hair and then will get a slagging for doing something about it. He can't win! No wonder the camp is in disarray if you have stuff like this being started by the assistant-manager of all people.

    Ireland sure sounds like a mixed up kid but this kind of puerile treatment of him can only make things worse not better. In the meantime we lose one of our few match-winners, possibly permanently.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭An Citeog


    Pigman II wrote: »
    FFS this is the kind of thing you'd expect from group of seconary school kids. If the guy has got himself some hair then they could have left him alone about it. He'll get a slagging for losing his hair and then will get a slagging for doing something about it. He can't win! No wonder the camp is in disarray if you have stuff like this being started by the assistant-manager of all people.

    Ireland sure sounds like a mixed up kid but this kind of puerile treatment of him can only make things worse not better. In the meantime we lose one of our few match-winners, possibly permanently.

    That kind of stuff happens all the time. Players are constantly getting stick for whatever reason. Admittedly, this sounds like it went a step too far.

    Ireland sounds like a very troubled individual and one who seems to have the ability to hold a grudge (eg. like against Kerr). I wouldn't be surprised if he quit international football but I wouldn't go laying the blame on the other players.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    If "Daddy Dick" doesn't want to play for his country because he got a bit of slagging over his hair transplant, then I'm not sure what business he has being in the spotlight as a professional footballer.

    By the way, there's nothing wrong with his girlfriend, she's dead on.

    Just incase anyone forgot, http://www.mulley.net/2007/09/17/is-this-irish-football-international-stephen-ireland-in-a-thong-love-the-pink-dude-love-it/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Stephen Ireland has seemingly grown an extra ear out the back of his head if a picture of the team celebrating Elano's winner is to be believed.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    So the rumours about him putting his head in a grow bag are true?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    Stephen Ireland considering international retirement
    Saturday October 20 2007


    Stephen Ireland is said to be considering retiring from international football.


    The Manchester City midfielder has recently courted controversy with his decision to sit out Ireland's drawn games with Germany and Cyprus.

    And according to City boss Sven Goran Eriksson, Ireland will take a break from Irish duty for the next year with his long-term future yet to be decided.



    That would be unfortunate as he was one of our brightest emerging talent. I dont think he will play for Ireland again tbh. He has serious issues he needs to sort ASAP. However if his Irish team mates have been bullying him that would anger me big time. I dont think those clowns are in a posistion to bully anyone at the present time! If they have they should be dealt with and named. Muppets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    fcuk him, hope he never gets the privilege to play for his country again.

    He's obviously got some serious mental health issues.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    Take a break from the Irish squad for a year?

    Considering that by the end of November we only have one confirmed friendly between then and the qualifiers in September/October odd of next year, what is that meant to mean?

    Speaking of which, any more word on that tournament that was meant to be around August between us, the nordies, Scotland and Wales?

    And LOL at the ear photo :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    I doubt there'll be any tournament in August. Nothing confirmed but it looks like Italy in March and Brazil in April, both in Croker.


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