JUST
>despite declaring for England
explain?
hahahahahaha
He could have played for both NT because one of his gramps is irish
born in england, was eligible to play for ireland or england. he initially seemed to want to play for ireland, played in their youth teams and even appeared made friendly appearances for their senior team, so they considered him irish. now he says "actually I was english all along" and is committing himself to the english NT instead
>The midfielder will not be in Dublin on Sunday to collect his award.
SNUBBED
fucking hell, how common is this, where Ireland gets cucked by their young lads declaring for England? seems to happen a lot
Colony Mindset
Pretty rare, 99% of the time it's English lads declaring for Ireland or Wales because they have no chance of making it into the English NT.
It's happened like twice, ever, and the other one never got called up to England's first team so he really just cucked himself out of an international career. Anyway, it serves Ireland right when their whole recruitment policy is to scour the English leagues for English lads with an Irish grandparent and to get in there before the England national team does.
born and raised in england, learned to play football in england. it's hardly a cucking, although doing it so soon after having appeared in their youth teams is a little unfortunate
Oh I figured it was common because I know Graelish did the same thing and was reminded of that dumb cunt this weekend
Grealish and Rice are pretty much the only two examples of it
Grealish is English though, whereas the Irish and Welsh national teams are historically full of players born and raised in England. We have players like Wilfried Zaha too, who declared for the Ivory Coast despite the fact he has lived in England since he was about 3 years old.
>Grealish is English though
So is Rice. He was born in London, it's only his grandparents who were from Ireland. He probably just didn't think he'd be an England regular but now his career is really starting to show potential.
Also Zaha declared for Ivory Coast after flopping at Man United and Cardiff and having to go back to Palace. He was considered quite the flop back then, probably didn't expect his England career to happen at that point. Beforehand he represented England at youth level and I definitely remember him making a senior appearance or 2 for England before switching allegiances back when he was in the Championship.
at least it's not some huehue pretending to be portuguese
I was honestly worried at the time that it was some butthurt Irish guy who attacked Grealish. Turns out it was just some midul mong.
>zaha instead of sterlel at the last wc
fuck we might have got to the final
Carl Jenkinson will be an eternal right back for Finland but decided to be a one cap wonder for England
Shut up, Wilf.
He's still eligible to play for Finland (he appeared in 1 friendly for England), but presumably doesn't give a shit about Finland. Not all players do. Mark Noble turned down Ireland knowing full well he'll never play for England for example
>Spiting Ireland just because
What a fucking legend.
If I were Jenkinson I'd say fuck it and just play for finland. It's not as if he's getting much game time at arsenal, surely he wants to actually strap his boots on every once in a while
>Guerreiro
>Adrien Silva
>Anthony Lopes
>Probably others I don't remember
Actually thinking about it I'm sure one/both parents for those listed are Portuguese so at least there's a connection.
Its obviously a little tongue in cheek jab at him.
>One career ending injury please.
Carl Jenkinson has a really weird thing going for him in that he's a pretty shit player yet he's a fan favourite at a big club.
Arsenal fans love him because he's supported us all his life and is clearly living his dream. He always puts a load of effort in when he plays and he hasn't had a bad game in ages now (although that's probably because he usually plays against the shitters although he does have a prem appearance this season and he was great in that match).
It's a weird situation but I feel like he knows he's not that great and probably just wants to stay at Arsenal, make a bit of money, and very occasionally play a match and get cheered massively by the fans. Once he leaves Arsenal that's it for him, he'll never play at a high level again.
Doubt he gives a shit about Finland.