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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭JimiTime


    Stekelly wrote: »
    Not when they arent from England they dont.

    What? thats ludicrous. If they are playing in the English competition, surely they're considered 'from the English league' in the eyes of UEFA.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    JimiTime wrote: »
    What? thats ludicrous. If they are playing in the English competition, surely they're considered 'from the English league' in the eyes of UEFA.

    English FA can only put forward english clubs for euro football. This been done to death but cardiff knew forever they could never get into euro whilst playing in english football.


    kdjac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    English FA can only put forward english clubs for euro football. This been done to death but cardiff knew forever they could never get into euro whilst playing in english football.


    kdjac

    Yeah but they also knew they were never going to win the FA cup.:D


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,402 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    What confuses me about Cardiff's eligibility is that when the LoW was being set up I seem to remember Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham (and maybe Newport too at that time) choosing to stay playing in the English league rather than move to the Welsh one. I would have thought that that decision would have meant that they were no longer eligible for European entry through Welsh competitions but would be allowed through English ones as they had effectively become "English" clubs, in much the same way that Derry is "Irish" rather than Northern Irish.

    Either way it'll all be irrelevent when Portsmouth beat them. :D Much and all as I liked McPhail when he was at Leeds, I really don't think I could stand Ridsdale grinning smugly if Cardiff won the FA Cup.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Zaph wrote: »

    Either way it'll all be irrelevent when Portsmouth beat them. :D Much and all as I liked McPhail when he was at Leeds, I really don't think I could stand Ridsdale grinning smugly if Cardiff won the FA Cup.

    i agree with that but would like to beat them in UEFA i really dont want to go too far away and wales would be a nice short trip, i dislike both him and Jones.

    oddly i would **** myself at thoughts of playing portsmouth :o


    kdjac


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭JimiTime


    Zaph wrote: »
    What confuses me about Cardiff's eligibility is that when the LoW was being set up I seem to remember Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham (and maybe Newport too at that time) choosing to stay playing in the English league rather than move to the Welsh one. I would have thought that that decision would have meant that they were no longer eligible for European entry through Welsh competitions but would be allowed through English ones as they had effectively become "English" clubs, in much the same way that Derry is "Irish" rather than Northern Irish.

    Either way it'll all be irrelevent when Portsmouth beat them. :D Much and all as I liked McPhail when he was at Leeds, I really don't think I could stand Ridsdale grinning smugly if Cardiff won the FA Cup.

    The derry Comparison is spot on. It'd be a great injustice for Cardiff if they win the thing and don't get european football IMO. Mental:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    JimiTime wrote: »
    The derry Comparison is spot on. It'd be a great injustice for Cardiff if they win the thing and don't get european football IMO. Mental:confused:

    god sorry but this has been done to death. Derry are no comparision (feckers ****ting all over us atm) they represent the FAI not the IFA, they have nothing whatsoever to do with the IFA so can never represent Norn iron. they also made that choice but in a way it was made for them "political reasons".


    So derry and cardiff no comparision.



    kdjac


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    DSB more chance of a 2nd tier english player playing for ireland hence interest

    Personally I think thats a ridiculous and fickle attitude to have but sure how and ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Mad_Max


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    god sorry but this has been done to death. Derry are no comparision (feckers ****ting all over us atm) they represent the FAI not the IFA, they have nothing whatsoever to do with the IFA so can never represent Norn iron. they also made that choice but in a way it was made for them "political reasons".


    So derry and cardiff no comparision.

    Are cardiff not a member of the FA? I thought only members of the fa participated in the fa cup.

    I can only assume they are not members of the fa if the comparison to Derry doesn't hold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,985 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    PSI wrote: »
    No he isn't.

    He was born in London to two Irish parents who moved back to Dublin and raised him there.

    I'm pretty sure you Irish folk voted to ensure that being born in Ireland doesn't make you Irish, thus I'm pretty sure you can't go claiming McPhail is English by the same standard, especially seeing as he has always claimed he was Irish.

    I was joking. The chill pill is in the post PSI.:p


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