Redo91
Full Member
Doesn't change the fact he's English. I can understand that Ireland have given the kid a chance to impress but at the end of the day if he does choose to switch to England, you'd have to say fair enough. Not sure why you'd be 'very upset' with him choosing to play for his country. He's English at the end of the day, and perhaps thought he had a better chance of making it internationally with Ireland.
His dad and both grandparents on that side of his family are Irish. He isn't one of those cases of a player with one Irish grandparent who has never been in the country before in his life. He has even played GAA in Birmingham so he has clearly very strong Irish ties. I don't like when an English born player decides in their mid-twenties that they want to play for Ireland when it dawns on them that they aren't good enough for England. For example I want Mark Noble nowhere near the Irish jersey. This isn't the case with Grealish or even players like McGeady or McCarthy who were more than good enough to play for Scotland but played for Ireland because they wanted to.
England have approached him a number of times to join up with their youth teams so I'm sure he knows he is good enough to play for them but so far has chosen not to.