Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: eastie on March 02, 2011, 05:31:47 PM
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Stephen Ireland has vowed to put a nightmare 18 months behind him – and prove Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini and Aston Villa chief Gerard Houllier wrong.
The 24-year-old has gone from player of the year at City to outcast at Villa, forced to train with the youth team.
He admits the frustrations of being the forgotten man could have driven him “insane” but for his family and kids... but he is now determined to relaunch his career on Tyneside.
Ireland is in line to make his Toon debut against Everton the first step in showing Mancini and Gerard Houllier they were wrong not to give him a chance.
He was snubbed by Mancini when he took over City, despite being their best performer a couple of seasons ago, and only made 12 appearances for Villa before being loaned to Newcastle in January.
“The last 18 months have been really frustrating, especially when it’s not your fault and out of your hands," said Ireland.
“It would have been different had I played 40 games in a row or something like that, and didn’t perform, because then I would hold my hands up. But when I haven’t been given chances and game-time, then I’ve just sat around, basically doing nothing.
“After the past year and a half I’ve had, you feel like a fish out of water. It is difficult because you have to keep your confidence high. and remember what you are good at. When the chance comes you have to perform.”
Ireland feels hard done to by his departure from Eastlands, where he was a crowd favourite, and by his rejection at Villa.
“I played for four or five years at City, two years ago I had a very good season winning Player of the Year," he added.
“I wanted to come back into pre-season and kick on straight away, which is what happened initially. I played the first game and scored, and played well for five or six games under Mark Hughes.
“But then he left and things went in the opposite direction. I went to Villa and it hasn’t worked out. If I was going home to a house on my own I would go insane, but at least I’m going home to my family, the kids, which makes me smile.
“At Villa, there were times when I trained with the reserves and even the youth team, which wasn’t ideal and you just have to bite the bullet. When you don’t feel you are getting an opportunity it is difficult to take.”
Alan Pardew swooped for Ireland in January and he has spent the last five weeks recovering from injury, and is finally in the first team reckoning.
The impression I’ve got from the manager is really good," he said. “As a package – the fans, the city, the club, the players, the staff – it’s perfect here. It reminds me of what City was two or three years ago and for me, that’s good for my morale.
“I feel like I’ve been a victim of bad circumstances, but I will come through it!
“Now I have to try and get back to the level I was at a couple of years ago as quickly as I can, playing every week, scoring goals and creating them for others.”
Read more: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Newcastle-loan-star-Stephen-Ireland-has-vowed-to-put-a-nightmare-18-months-behind-him-and-prove-Manchester-City-boss-Roberto-Mancini-and-Aston-Villa-chief-Gerard-Houllier-wrong-
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Hard done by?
Not my fault?
Prick.
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Poor little lamb, he tried so hard to make his time here a success, my heart bleeds for him.
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He's as mad as a box of frogs and the sooner he's of the wage bill the better.
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He might well have a point, but he's really just got to start playing, and playing well, again. Then we'll see what the future holds for him.
Considering he was injured or ill on three or four separate occasions for us, 12 appearances in half a season's not too bad.
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Piss off Ireland, he'll be playing in the MLS or Qatar this time next year, and none of it will be his fault.
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Moderators:
Can we merge this thread with the one about Gary Hart blaming `fate' for that train crash?
thanks
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You mean that Ireland just spends his nights wanking?
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He always seemed wanked-out and on the verge of sleep whenever he was in a Villa shirt
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He's hardly going to admit he's the twisted brainwrong of a oneoff manmental, is he?
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He thinks Alan Pardew is a good manager, one really doesn't need to look any further than that...
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“It would have been different had I played 40 games in a row or something like that, and didn’t perform, because then I would hold my hands up. But when I haven’t been given chances and game-time, then I’ve just sat around, basically doing nothing.
As picked up by Mediawatch - Number of games played by Ireland over last 18 months: 40.
Edit: Ah, in a row.
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“After the past year and a half I’ve had, you feel like a fish out of water. It is difficult because you have to keep your confidence high. and remember what you are good at. When the chance comes you have to perform.”
The important bit is here, he's exactly right, the problem is, when the chances came at Villa he acted like a sulky child and wandered around the pitch offering nothing positive to the team.
If I saw a quote like this from someone like Bannan who has done great when he's played but then disappeared for a few weeks I'd be fine with it but 12 games is enough time to show that you've got the desire to succeed, even if it doesn't come off for you, no Villa fan (or more importantly villa coach) has seen that desire in his time at the club. If you were bothered and interested no club in the world would pay you £60k+ a week to train with the kids.
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He goes wherever destiny calls.
He's caught in a game of chance.
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Don't cry or winge, just show us and prove us wrong as we will be delighted to have a fired up, hungry player called Stephen Ireland performing for us. He got the skills but not other things.
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The circumstances of him being an utter nutcase
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He stands on the outside, looking at love.
He wants to get inside.
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Tough at the top mate. Perform or FCUK off.
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There is no God.
If there was, why would he choose to bless bum nuggets like this with talent.
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He still is a Villa player, isn't he ?
I'd like to see him back at his best, there is talent there, we just haven't seen it.
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I like the way the man warped enough to use the fictional death of his Gran as an excuse not to play says "I would go insane". Hard to feel sorry for someone in one of the most enviable situations imaginable trying to play the victim. Twat.
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Perhaps he'd have played better for us if we'd have loosened the straps on his strait jacket.
Fucking fruit loop.
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He still is a Villa player, isn't he ?
I'd like to see him back at his best, there is talent there, we just haven't seen it.
Agree, and it casts serious questions about how he has been managed. I'm sure Ireland is a handful but for a club with our reported wage/turnover ratio the fact we seem happy to write off this investment with so little effort on our part is staggering.
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There is no God.
If there was, why would he choose to bless bum nuggets like this with talent.
amen to that brother...
the worst bit about it is that as he doesnt feel its his fault, he wont actually try and resolve the situation...
pathetic little scrotum faced baldy little loon...
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I like the way the man warped enough to use the fictional death of his Gran as an excuse not to play says "I would go insane".
To be fair to him, he used his dead granny excuse because he didn't want to tell anyone his girlfriend had had a miscarriage.
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I like the way the man warped enough to use the fictional death of his Gran as an excuse not to play says "I would go insane".
To be fair to him, he used his dead granny excuse because he didn't want to tell anyone his girlfriend had had a miscarriage.
That worked well didn't it.
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I like the way the man warped enough to use the fictional death of his Gran as an excuse not to play says "I would go insane".
To be fair to him, he used his dead granny excuse because he didn't want to tell anyone his girlfriend had had a miscarriage.
I didn't know that, although I'd have thought he could have just said it was a serious personal issue which he didn't want to discuss rather than making up a farcical cock and bull story.
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I actually do feel sorry for him in football terms. He was brought in as a makeshift in the Milner deal so he was joing a club that had not appointed a permanent manager. Hardly reassuring is it? We should never have sanctioned the deal until we had a manager in place who could choose his own players.
If he is medically suffering from problems then I feel sorry for him too. We had a really intelligent thread on here last summer on mental illness / depression, with several references to Collymore, and quite a few posters agreed from personal experience that it is no laughing matter.
Finally, I really don't see the benefit of making a player train with the youth team or reserves. His performances for us have been very poor from what I saw but I don't like the mentality of creating outcasts.
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Just got round to opening my Acorns newsletter. There's a picture of Stephen Ireland on page 10 with a young lad who visited Bodymoor Heath at Christmas.
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Don't cry or winge, just show us and prove us wrong as we will be delighted to have a fired up, hungry player called Stephen Ireland performing for us. He got the skills but not other things.
If he's hungry he certainly wouldn't have the other things with Richard Dunne in the same room.
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He certainly picked the wrong week if he was looking for sympathy from the Villa fans.
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Just got round to opening my Acorns newsletter. There's a picture of Stephen Ireland on page 10 with a young lad who visited Bodymoor Heath at Christmas.
Erm.. Thanks Lizz!
It's a shame as there is a cracking player in there somewhere and it's in a position that we need to strengthen, but if he can't be arsed to put the effort in then he needs to move on.
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As for the dead granny or using your wife's biology to justify your mental torment I had no sympathy for William Hague and I have none for Stephen Ireland. I would have a great deal of sympathy for Mrs Hague and Mrs Ireland if they were the story but they are not.
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I'll concede that fate conspired against him with his move - MON didn't really want him, he certainly wasn't heaping on the praise after the acquisition was he? Then for MON to fuck off and get GH who didn't really want him either was hard cheese too.
Lets put it this way - I have a job, I'm happy and settled and there are good prospects of career development. The management changes and the boss says we've brought in someone we think can do a better job than you so now you're going to go and do his old job at his old firm travelling further and or uprooting your home and family. You'd be a bit peeved and look for some kind of compensation too. The difference that separates footballers from the guys like you and is that in Football the club is the one you serve, not yourself. The rest is all on him though, he had his chances and he's a twat.
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He should stay sober enough for long enough to put in a shift or two. Wasted talent.
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A complete nutter and also possibly the ideal player for our three man centre midfield or the number 10 position. He looked in his games with Villa that he had possibly given up on the game. Thought he was ok in the second half against Liverpool but then he never played again. There was a great shot he put in against Bolton at home and he missed a sitter against Chelsea. But his lack of effort, heart, application was shocking. Kind of view that the lad has his money made and seems content just to draw his wages. As an Irish fan, its a real pity as in his brief international career he was excellent - 8 games and 4 goals in that farcical campaign under Staunton.
Its not going to work with him and Houllier anyway. MON would probably have managed him better but if the guy wont put in the minimum required for any footballer then Mourinho wouldnt be able to get him to play.
Ive said it before but signing a player without a permanent manager in charge was a recipe for disaster. The 'signed and sealed' only for Milner to play against West Ham makes no sense whatsoever. We will be taking a big loss on him during the summer.
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I shirked/worked from home today and happened to watch the Jeremy Kyle Show. Based on the 'guests', some posters here, me included, should be braced for a massive reality check about general UK intelligence levels.
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STEPHEN IRELAND: MY ASTON VILLA HORROR
STEPHEN IRELAND has revved up for a possible loan debut for Newcastle tomorrow with a blast at his club Aston Villa and his country.
Ireland, who is rated a 50-50 chance to face Everton at St James’ Park, claims he was unfairly booted out by Villa manager Gerard Houllier.
He even says he had to pay for medical treatment from his own pocket during his spell there and that he was the best player during training despite being told to stay at home on match days.
Ireland said: “After 15 matches on the bench Houllier told me to stay at home. I trained during the week and on Fridays he told me, ‘no point your coming, you are not in the team’.
“Yet I was the best player in training. It was my team that won in every session. One of the few times he played me, we drew 0-0 at Chelsea and I ended up man of the match.
“Apparently that didn’t matter to him. I was stuck with being paid for doing nothing at all. I
was left to myself. I had to pay out of my own pocket for medical treatment. Can you believe that?”
Ireland says he was also unhappy at being singled out over requests to move house from Manchester.
“Houllier asked me to come and live in Birmingham because it was taking me 75 minutes to come to training. But there were 15 players in the same position as me. Some came from London and took more than two hours, but he only asked me to move.
“For a start, Birmingham is a c**p city and I wasn’t going to make the effort, especially as I wasn’t playing. Might as well be in Manchester if I had to stay home on match days.
“I don’t bear Houllier any grudges, it wasn’t him who chose me after all.”
Ireland, who made his remarks to French magazine So Foot, is desperate for action. He last played for Villa against Liverpool in December.
He added: “I just want to play and have a manager who really wants me for once. I have no idea at the moment who I will be playing for next season. My future is unclear.”
He also claims he would rather shoot himself than return to his native Cork.
Ireland, who turned his back on the Republic’s team four years ago, has even suggested the country deserves the economic chaos into which it has plunged.
“Ireland is only reaping what it has sown,” he said. “They have put buildings up just for the sake of it and, in the end, no one lives inside them. That has cost a huge amount of money.
“But I don’t give a damn for Ireland. Live in Cork? Rather shoot myself. I prefer Los Angeles.” And he made crystal clear his determination to never wear his country’s shirt again. “Even at youth level, it p****d me off to go there,” he said. “Everyone came from Dublin. I was the only guy from Cork. I had to take the train on my own, pay for a taxi, there was no hotel, no grub. It was handled so amateurishly.
“National teams don’t interest me. I have more to do than go off for three days to play Andorra. And when you are Irish, you are well aware you’ll never win the World Cup.
“I feel nothing for the team. I absolutely don’t feel guilty when they lose and, when they win, at no time do I think I could have been there.
“Even if Ireland had qualified for the World Cup, I wouldn’t have gone. People call for my return, but I have only played five times for them. The national team and me are ancient history.”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/232528/Stephen-Ireland-My-Aston-Villa-horror
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How to win friends and influence people...
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What a ray of sunshine he is.
No doubt if it dose'nt work out at Newcastle, he'll be telling us all what a shithole the place was and that black and white stripes did'nt suit him.
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Living proof that psychological tests should be mandatory prior to every transfer. He's not well, which he can't help, but I also suspect he's a massive twat, which compounds matters.
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What a stupid little ******.
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poor ickle thing, fancy having to pay for his own medical treatment. I bet he had to look down the back of the sofa to find enough change to afford it. The best line of his interview read "Ireland is only reaping what it has sown" Amen. Oh, yeah Stephen, complaining that the Liverpool game was the last time you played in our shirt reminds me of the trip up to Anfield to watch you be the shitest player on the pitch. I dont give a flying fuck how great you were in practice, that doesnt translate into one point or goal in the real world. Sorry guys, Spleen. Vented.
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I feel no sympathy for him what-so-ever. He's an ungrateful little shit who doesn't deserve to be part of a fantastic club such as Aston Villa.
He's clearly an egotistical moron who thinks that because he won a footballing award he should be treated like fucking Royalty.
And as others have said, it's a shame because deep down he has some real footballing talent, and on a good day he was an outstanding player ... but let's face it, who wants him at Aston Villa now?
I sure as fuck don't.
I hope he crashes his stupid fucking car into a bus full of fatties.
PS. Birmingham's a crap city? I assume he hasn't wandered in to Newcastle after 5:00 pm then. Fucking slap headed fruit loop.
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What a despicable little ******.
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That's the end o f his chances here for sure now.
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Odious little twerp.
Just get rid. Fuck the money.
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A tosser.
Good riddance.
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There is a version of this in the Sun today that puts a new spin on the signing him without a manager theory. He is quoted as saying he thought MON was going to be his manager but he quit the day after he signed.
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Let's get Ashley Cole down here with his gun. Line Ireland up....
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Maybe he meant to say Birmingham city are crap - joking aside the guy has burnt all his bridges here now and we need to cut our losses and get whatever we can to get rid of him.
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Clearly a fruit cake and has now completely burned his bridges with Villa. The problem is he's still on our books - and if he doesn't put a shift in at Newcastle who the hell is going to take him off our hands?
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How anyone could've thought that this would end up any other way is beyond me.
All the signs were there.
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I feel no sympathy for him what-so-ever. He's an ungrateful little shit who doesn't deserve to be part of a fantastic club such as Aston Villa.
He's clearly an egotistical moron who thinks that because he won a footballing award he should be treated like fucking Royalty.
And as others have said, it's a shame because deep down he has some real footballing talent, and on a good day he was an outstanding player ... but let's face it, who wants him at Aston Villa now?
I sure as fuck don't.
I hope he crashes his stupid fucking car into a bus full of fatties.
PS. Birmingham's a crap city? I assume he hasn't wandered in to Newcastle after 5:00 pm then. Fucking slap headed fruit loop.
This.
But the "car into bus of fatties" part is mean though. They don't deserved that.
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Typical footballer - no introspection and never occurs to him to wander if he could have done anything better himself.
He'll be living off that one season at Man City, and what a living it will be, for the rest of his career.
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He has wasted his football talent by acting like a spoilt brat i hope he stays with the barcodes.
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He's a fucking little egit. Fair enough the timing of MON leaving straight after being signed wasnt good, but he put no fucking effort in. Remember the loss to Bburn? Pires come on and did more running in 20 mins than he did in 70, that tells you something. "I was the best player in practise". Houllier isnt liked at the moment, but if he really was that good, Houllier would have played him. He never even made the fucking effort in a Villa shirt and i hope his career tailspins to the lower leagues quickly. What a waste of talent. Never liked him til he signed for Villa, it was all "me me me". Fuck him
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The epitome of a modern footballer.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/04/stephen-ireland-interview-villa-newcastle
Ireland feels he was misquoted!
"taken out of context"
my arse
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Can we change the thread title to "Aston Villa- 'our horror at Ireland(s footballing skills)'
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3604021/Stephen-Ireland-in-25k-proposal.html
FOOTIE ace STEPHEN IRELAND is to marry girlfriend Jessica Lawlor - after popping the question in a £25,000 proposal on a paradise island.
Aston Villa ace Stephen, 24, flew 25-year-old Jessica and a group of friends to California, then hired a yacht to take them to Catalina Island.
Looks like the Sun's dictionary has a very different definition of the world "ace" that the rest of us
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they meant to write a.c.e. A Crappy Entity
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3604021/Stephen-Ireland-in-25k-proposal.html
FOOTIE ace STEPHEN IRELAND is to marry girlfriend Jessica Lawlor - after popping the question in a £25,000 proposal on a paradise island.
Aston Villa ace Stephen, 24, flew 25-year-old Jessica and a group of friends to California, then hired a yacht to take them to Catalina Island.
Looks like the Sun's dictionary has a very different definition of the world "ace" that the rest of us
And to think - we paid for all that without him needing to play football for us in return.
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it makes me sick to the pit of my stomach that that ****** can swan off on a 25k holiday...
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These wankers really do know how to piss money away, don't they? Monty Brewster has absolutely nothing on them.
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The sooner we're rid of this twat the better.
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Hopefully in 10 years time Ireland will be remembered by everyone for being the true ****** he is, and not a good footballer for one season of his career.
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That makes my piss boil, that little shit doesn't know how good he has it. He's disrepected his country and his club, but it is always someone else's fault.
He is disliked in his country, disliked by the fans of the club that pays his wages. He just doesn't get it.
He gets money into his banK account too easily, his football career as a secondary to making money.
I'm really starting to dislike football, what's the point? When you start to realise that some of the players you dislike the most in the League are at the club you love. Odious little f*cks.
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It's a shame he's such a c**t as there's a cracking footballer in there somewhere
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That is just sick. He has played about half hours football since January and getting paid £65k a week ? ........
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He's not been the same since he stopped wearing the comedy wig. If we want to get the best out of Ireland i suggest the 1st thing we do this summer is make an offer to Citeh for it and re-unite the partnership - its hardly played for them since he left.
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That makes my piss boil, that little shit doesn't know how good he has it. He's disrepected his country and his club, but it is always someone else's fault.
He is disliked in his country, disliked by the fans of the club that pays his wages. He just doesn't get it.
He gets money into his banK account too easily, his football career as a secondary to making money.
I'm really starting to dislike football, what's the point? When you start to realise that some of the players you dislike the most in the League are at the club you love. Odious little f*cks.
100% agree with you there !
I'm rapidly falling out of love with the game that I love... it simply does'nt exist any more.
I wait for the day when a club will have the balls to make cnts like Ireland play for the Youth team or give them a job sweeping the concourses to at least earn a fraction of some of their disgusting salaries while the rest of us struggle to even make a meagre living.
I hate Ireland as much as all of us but he simply doesn't give a flying feck what I or anybody else thinks.
Wanker.
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He's not been the same since he stopped wearing the comedy wig. If we want to get the best out of Ireland i suggest the 1st thing we do this summer is make an offer to Citeh for it and re-unite the partnership - its hardly played for them since he left.
As ever greg speaks sense. In The Wig, on The Pitch
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Funny how the sun said he was one of the premiership flops of 2011 and the next day he is an "ace"
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That makes my piss boil, that little shit doesn't know how good he has it. He's disrepected his country and his club, but it is always someone else's fault.
He is disliked in his country, disliked by the fans of the club that pays his wages. He just doesn't get it.
He gets money into his banK account too easily, his football career as a secondary to making money.
I'm really starting to dislike football, what's the point? When you start to realise that some of the players you dislike the most in the League are at the club you love. Odious little f*cks.
Likewise. I've just had a rant about the Downing situation but this makes me want to go out on a booze-fuelled, gun-toting rampage to enjoy an indiscriminate rage on the human race, generally.
I have not yet renewed the season ticket and am increasingly disinclined to.
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Aston Villa has vowed to put a nightmare 18 months behind them – and prove Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini and Aston Villa chief Gerard Houllier right...
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He's not been the same since he stopped wearing the comedy wig. If we want to get the best out of Ireland i suggest the 1st thing we do this summer is make an offer to Citeh for it and re-unite the partnership - its hardly played for them since he left.
As ever greg speaks sense. In The Wig, on The Pitch
I'd pay good money to see him play in a "calm down calm down" type wig.
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He's not been the same since he stopped wearing the comedy wig. If we want to get the best out of Ireland i suggest the 1st thing we do this summer is make an offer to Citeh for it and re-unite the partnership - its hardly played for them since he left.
As ever greg speaks sense. In The Wig, on The Pitch
I'd pay good money to see him play in a "calm down calm down" type wig.
...against Liverpool.
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Diddums. The only 'horror' is the fact it cheapened the amount we sold Milner for.
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If he got his wig back and we sold him to Wet Spam and if they engaged the services of Allardyce and if he scored on his debut the tabloid headline would read Wig Man Slam For Fat WHam Sam
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I actually felt sorry for the arrogant little s**t previously but to slag off a city he clearly never bothered to live in or even associate with on the basis that he didn't get played tells you the type of person he is. You earn a right to play it isn't given - clearly newcastle have better hair transplant/ re-gain salons or slap head polishing facilities and Pardew can handle unstable people! Otherwise 12 months on it will be my hell at Newcastle and Tranmere (or if he's really unlucky Small Heath)...
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Another reason why football is shite.
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Another reason why football is shite.
Cant we just tell him to fuck off?
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I'm sure he had the money to get married and fly his freinds out to California before he joined us. We're not entirely to blame.
In a footbaling sense, he sounds a bit of a Collymore. He dose'nt seem to realise what a good footballer he could be and he dose'nt seem to care either.
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Why the fuck did we buy him? We didn't have a manager at the time?
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I think his purchase shows how they got well and truly caught out by MON's departure sadly.
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Why the fuck did we buy him? We didn't have a manager at the time?
Apparently MON was manager when the deal was agreed upon, and the board thought it was honourable to finanlise the deal even if we were managerless.
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Waste of fucking space.
Lets just get rid of him , write the money off and just admit we made a huge mistake.
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Do not think i ever hated a player before Ireland "arrived" ..........
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He or rather his girlfriend was just on some shit on BBC Three that I caught the last five minutes of.
When they said she and Stephen no longer had to keep a property in Birmingham since he left Villa it took me a while to place who he was.
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He or rather his girlfriend was just on some shit on BBC Three that I caught the last five minutes of.
When they said she and Stephen no longer had to keep a property in Birmingham since he left Villa it took me a while to place who he was.
Young, Loaded and Looking for a House - or some other such tripe. She had £2m to spend on a house and couldnt find anywhere!
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Don't write off his contract, then he would just have our money and a new contract somewhere else. Make him earn a move or hang him out to dry.
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What an odious little shit-eater he is.
As Caiphus says, put the guy out to dry.
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The next time we're in danger of losing one of our best players, if anyone, anywhere suggests we do a PX with the other club, the name STEPHEN IRELAND should be shouted loud and clear.
This whole sorry situation should be a salutary lesson to everyone concerned.
Despite the fact that hurling cash at the pillock makes me sick to the pit of my stomach, I'd rather we paid up his contract and sent him on his way. Let him spend the summer finding a contract at another club, rather than poisoning the atmosphere around Bodymoor Heath.
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i would rather make him train with turtles and left to rot...
if we are going to pay him off, then lets not allow him to then go and revitalise his career elsewhere...
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Give him away to Small Heath.....
That will serve him right.
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I would send him to a hard non league club with poor facilities and make him work there for 6 months. Maybe he will realize how lucky he is and do something about it. I know send him to someone like Moor Green or Tamworth or whatever.
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I would send him to a hard non league club with poor facilities and make him work there for 6 months. Maybe he will realize how lucky he is and do something about it. I know send him to someone like Moor Green or Tamworth or whatever.
Why should they have to suffer him!
Personally I would try and work out a compromise with him about his contract and just get rid of him, if he didn't agree then he could train with the youths (or lower)!
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Aston Villa - 'our horror at Stephen Ireland'
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I would send him to a hard non league club with poor facilities and make him work there for 6 months. Maybe he will realize how lucky he is and do something about it. I know send him to someone like Moor Green or Tamworth or whatever.
No ta!
Moor Green would be fine, they don't exist any more.
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It would be interesting to see how Alex Ferguson would handle him LOL.
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How long do we have to keep him before he can buy out his own contract?
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It would be interesting to see how Alex Ferguson would handle him LOL.
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