Morrison - son of eireann's isle?

Sucka

Is it just me or does Clinton Morrison seem to have chosen ireland as his adopted homeland for purely personal reasons? He just seems to be a footballing mercenary. Maybe it's his demeanour in interviews and the like but he doesn't come across as a very genuine person. Nobody could ever question the loyalty of houghton, aldridge, charlton, mccarthy etc but i for one could never have complete faith in morrison if, say, ireland came across england in the latter stages of the world cup which is a (albeit slim) possibility:rolleyes:

KdjaCL

Personal reasons ???
By that you mean an good world cup = massive transfer fee.
A good goalscorer in 1st division is worth 5million
a good one with a Uk and Ireland international cap is worth 7.5 million
One with a good world cup, well you know how much clubs spend on players who have good world cups.
I hate that english B player coming over here ,but we not blessed with a decent goal scorer.
So what do we do .
Weather we like it or not we will cheer for him in world cup .
Kdja

king of fifa

will you give a crap if he is from peckham or portloise if he puts the ball in the net for us.it's not as if the rest of the 11 know all the word to the national anthem is it? and no one gave out about houghton's scottish accent after the italy game , did they???/

manonthemoon

n fairness to Clinton, his mother is Irish, so he is not using the 'Granny' rule as Aldridge, townsend & Cascarino did, so he is arguably more Irish than those. Also, when he grew up he spent a few holidays in Ireland unlike Aldridge, townsend and houghton, whose first visit to Ireland was when they began playing for us.



In your pipe. Wanna light?

frankly

It might be just you Sucka as i'm sure the hell the rest of the country will be cheering him on com'eth the World Cup.

Ciaran

If he scores in the World Cup, I'll be delighted but the fact that he took so long to decide to play for Ireland pisses me off.

Sucka

Dont get me wrong, i'll be cheering on clint just as much as the next fan. Just thought his motives needed a little questioning:rolleyes:

Ciaran

Can't argue with that.

mike65

I feel a bit quesy even reading this thread, arn'nt half the players who ever pulled on a green jersey Brits?!

How many of them would have played for England or Scotland
had they been deemed good enough at the time?

Mike.

francie brady

I live near the Morrisons of Garristown, clints granny and they hadn't a clue about him till he wanted to declare for lreland.

cournioni

What would you have said if Paul Scholes had been allowed to play for Ireland? (he has Irish grand parents or so I hear). Cept the aul English bastards blocked him. :mad:

mike65

Presumbly he had already played international fooball at underage levels.

Mike.

Blitzkrieger

I don't think he should be allowed to play for Ireland - because he's crap! He scored a tap-in on his debut and everyone thinks he's great. He's just awful. He's not in the same league as Keane and Keane is hardly world-class.

phil_h

he is a co<ky little fu<ker but what ya going to do. we dont have the players, hes never going to play for england, its a kind of win-win situation for both sides.

king of fifa

i suppose we'll find out all about him when the world cup happens.he may have only scored a tap in but his positioning and work rate couldn't really be faulted after the danish game .he is a poacher, hopefully some day to look like ian wright who has a involvement in coaching him

yee all need to grow up and get off your high-horses. He'l make up for any so called hesitations to play for Ireland in Japan/Korea this summer..A cocky ****er ???? so was mcateer but he's grown out of that and matured into the complete international player.

A$$A$$IN

Morrison is a striker and pardon my languange but we have piss all in front of goal!

Alright Duff is class but he is prone to hamsteing injuries ans porbaably wont finsh a full match.

Where as Morrison can finsh and also incorparates some skill like that fantastic shimmy past 2 Dutch players.
We need Morrison because Keane lacks match practise!

RasTa

my god some of yous are little moany owlones in here
do u know him personally or sumthin
i myself thinks hes a bit overwhelmed by all of the attention hes gettin
dont think he'd be playin infront of 45,000 crowds for crystal palace
and hes only 21/22

Brautigan

Jesus Rasta, judging from your signature and picture you're obviously not the spliff smoking Bob Marley type of Rasta then. Anyway, if "Big" "Clint" puts the ball in the English net every fu cker in Ireland will be praising him to the hilt. Every racist Dublin taxi driver (and half the male population of Dublin for that matter) will be hugging Nigerian kitchen porters shouting that Clinton is "one of you lads, you're all right you are.. etc.."

So what if he isn't 100% Irish, he's a damn sight better than pockets Connolly. And he has a touch of the Tony Cascarino's about him, which is either good or bad depending on how you feel about "Big" "Cas", although at the last game I had this terrible vision of Peter Davenport during the first half...

Flemmish Flame

Sorry with alldo respect for Robbie Keane and David Conolly Clinton Morrison whether we like it or not is one of these players who will always score goals and if hehappends to do that for Ireland grant! OK he is not the most smartest man on the planet but I regards most strikers being not the most intelligent on the planet, specially those who play first division football:eek:

Maybe van Nistelrooij has Irish parents