Andy Townsend just said......

Hated him playing for Ireland nevermind captaining the side, should never have happened, an embarrassment for Ireland and an insult to all the Irish players fighting for theiur place and pride to play for the green shirt.

Bigoted braindead thread imo

Why wud u say that?

Do i really need to explain???, surely your not that thick.

iam extremly thick. y do u think i bet on here

i know him well - nicest guy you could ever meet

whys he think hes english

why do you support a  team from Britain?

Rangers

it doesn't matter if he is a nice guy or what country he is from, it is an embarrassment that he is not Irish and unlike some of the other foreign lads of past and present he had no real affection for ireland then or now, in fact he loves another country and supports them , that is a real shame for all the Irish players who would have worn shirt with pride. Maybe this is why Ireland has such bad karma trying to qualify.

wel said mr zip. Like roy keane

But sure as one of the only countries in Europe with no proper professional league...............beggars can't be choosers.

NO Englishman should be allowed to play for Ireland

dont think he actually said what you think he said,,listen again if you get the chance.

Sure Terry Wogan has been saying the same for years on the eurovision song contest.

I heard it he never said what you said he said, what a bigoted thread some people....

dont mind andy at all, his commentary is laughable tho, i dunno if its itv telling him and the rest what to say but theyre deluded comments during the english games in particular were a joke, like they were watching a completely different match!!

Townsend back supporting Ire;land again

Maybe it has something to do with who is paying for his services???

Mark Lawrenson is no different on the BBC, he probably has forgot that he played for Ireland at this stage, it's all about who pays them I would say.

cascarino on talksport was giving it the weeeeeee's also.

I hated these boys playing for Ireland. Just a means to play International football for them - no sense of Irishness at all.

Either you consider yourself Irish or you don't, and if you don't then you don't play - simple as that.

The whole ridiculousness of the situation is shown by the Boateng brothers though - one plays for Germany & one plays for Ghana.

WALOFS