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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Rip Van We Go Again on March 04, 2011, 10:29:38 AM
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From sportinglife.com
Newcastle midfielder Stephen Ireland has launched a scathing attack on Gerard Houllier.
Speaking in an interview with French football magazine So Foot, Ireland, who is on loan at St James' Park, is very critical of Aston Villa boss Houllier.
The midfielder was rarely used by Houllier after he took charge from Martin O'Neill and he insists he was forced out of Villa by the Frenchman.
"After 15 matches on the bench Houllier told me to stay at home," said Ireland, who is hoping to make his Newcastle debut against Everton this weekend.
"I trained during the week and on Fridays he told me, 'no point you 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 also took exception at being asked to move to Birmingham from his home in 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," he continued.
"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 is desperate to play this weekend, adding: "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."
Ireland retired from international football with his native Republic of Ireland four years ago, but he has no regrets and insists he feels nothing for his homeland, or even his hometown of Cork.
"I don't give a damn for Ireland. Live in Cork? I'd rather shoot myself. I prefer Los Angeles," he said.
And he admits he is not going to be playing for his country again in the future.
"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."
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What a charming young boy.
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I thought it was hilarious.
The rantings of a Grade A mentalist.
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It's true, he does sound a bit like Gaddafi. "Al-Qaeda drugged me so I played like a useless lump of shit" would have actually been more credible.
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Merge threads?
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As if we didn't know already he is a complete c**k. The Magpies are welcome to him.
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Merge threads?
I thought his latest comments were good enough for a thread on their own.
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Merge threads?
I thought his latest comments were good enough for a thread on their own.
I agree. Charlie Sheen, John Hitleriano, Col Gaddafi, and now Stephen Ireland. Until this week I'd wondered if there were a way back for him at the Villa, even hoped. Now I hope there's no way back for him in football.
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He must have serious issues. Let's hope the people of Cork don't get to read this!
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From sportinglife.com
"I wasn't going to make the effort"
We can see that.
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Even by footballers' standards, he is surprisingly thick
Reading that, Newcastle sounds ideal for him. Both the club and their fans will find they have much in common with him...
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I don't get all the bollocks about paying for his medical treatment.
I did say that he was a twat ages ago.
He's surpassed all twatishness that I expected from him though.
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Even by footballers' standards, he is surprisingly thick
Reading that, Newcastle sounds ideal for him. Both the club and their fans will find they have much in common with him...
In fairness, the only Newcastle response I've seen so far has been pretty much the same as ours.
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He certainly wouldn't make it in politics. He's entitled to his views; it doesn't look like he has any sense of diplomacy.
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Absolutely barking! What about Dale End? Has he not seen that video by Telly Savalas. FFS!
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He certainly wouldn't make it in politics. He's entitled to his views; it doesn't look like he has any sense of diplomacy.
No, a politician or diplomat he isn't.
I still blame Houllier.
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They took a picture of him during the interview.
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/3062964/2/istockphoto_3062964-strait-jacket-straps.jpg
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He really said that? I presumed it was a spoof article. Blimey.
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That's not real.
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I think he needs to go fishing with Gazza and get some advice
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That's not real.
I'm afraid it's genuine.
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/11/03/04/manual_085212.html&BID=165
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"I don't give a damn for Ireland. Live in Cork? I'd rather shoot myself. I prefer Los Angeles," he said.
Is there any chance that the Villa could loan him out to Cork City FC instead?
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story in todays daily express , it was posted couple of hours ago in stephen ireland -my aston villa horror thread and discussed a lot on there during last 2 hours - it is true.
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I'd rather shoot myself.
Don't let us stop you Baldilocks.
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He hates Ireland yet he has it for his surname!
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He hates Ireland yet he has it for his surname!
Can't knock him for that, I detest people who make arrows.
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did he really win MOM versus Chelsea - i cant remember him having any half decent games for us.
Wasnt he the best player in training at Man City too?
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did he really win MOM versus Chelsea - i cant remember him having any half decent games for us.
Wasnt he the best player in training at Man City too?
I remember him missing a sitter against Chelsea early on.
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"For a start, Birmingham is a c**p city"
"I don't give a damn for Ireland"
I have a Bluenose mate who also likes to have a dig at the Irish to try and get me to bite. And he's an ameture compared to how much that baldy cock sucker has now pissed me off.
I hope his genitals are nibbled off my rabid seagulls.
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I take back all the things I've been saying this week about Gadaffi being a loon, we have a new winner for total mentalist of 2011. On the plus side Mr White Taliban and the barcodes really are a match made in heaven.
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I've lived and worked in Newcastle its nothin special. We get it Ireland you muppet you don't want to come back. We don't want you back you waste of skin
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MOTM against Chelsea? I certainly don't recall that!
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This is the best bit - seems to be missing from the text posted; this is the Sunday Mercury version:
http://tinyurl.com/6dll2ba
"After 15 matches on the bench Houllier told me to stay at home," said Ireland, who is hoping to make his Newcastle debut against Everton this weekend.
"I trained during the week and on Fridays he told me, 'no point you 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?"
Interesting assertion. I thought he was poor. No-one thought he was man-of-the-match here
http://tinyurl.com/32r52e4
or here
http://tinyurl.com/6d49965
or here
http://tinyurl.com/6yqjs4w
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After reading that interview I can't believe that I actually stood up for Ireland when he was here, hoping that at some point he'd sort himself out and come good.
I've now realised that he's just an inflammatory bellend. Goodbye Stephen!
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The only newspaper he'd be Man of the Match in is The Daily Cock. And that's only when Old Blind Willie McNolegs isn't playing.
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He hates Ireland yet he has it for his surname!
Can't knock him for that, I detest people who make arrows.
Nice one.
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He's a prize knob jockey isn't he? "I don't know where I'll be playing next season..."
Well spouting shit like this in the media is not going to impress any prospective managers, is it? What's that smell? Oh it's a bridge on fire!
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what an absolute disgrace that individual is...
as someone mentioned yesterday, it is proof that there is no god when people like him end up with immense talent...
his unique brand of fuckwittery knows no bounds...
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Surely fake or atleast exaggerated quotes?
From a French paper - so English, slightly misquoted and then poorly translated into French and then back again into English...
I can't believe he'd say some of that stuff..
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Surely fake or atleast exaggerated quotes?
From a French paper - so English, slightly misquoted and then poorly translated into French and then back again into English...
I can't believe he'd say some of that stuff..
Sporting life are pretty reliable.
They wouldn't reproduce it without checking over it first.
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The Stephen Irelands of this world make me hate football.
He is everything that is wrong about the game.
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From sportinglife.com
"Yet I was the best player in training. It was my team that won in every session.
I used to say that sort of thing when I was nine years old.
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From sportinglife.com
"Yet I was the best player in training. It was my team that won in every session.
I used to say that sort of thing when I was nine years old.
He sounds like Ben in Outnumbered. "I should be cap-tain!". Sure you should, sure you should.
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I normally have sympathy for the mentally ill but not this ringpiece. I hope he burns his stupid poxy house down the next time he's cooking some chips.
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I was delighted to learn from somebody who deals with many footballers and sports people that Stephen Ireland is the biggest c**t he has ever had the misfortune to deal with.
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Surely fake or atleast exaggerated quotes?
From a French paper - so English, slightly misquoted and then poorly translated into French and then back again into English...
I can't believe he'd say some of that stuff..
It was only Stephen Ireland talking to a French sports writer. I think they can manage that level of English. It's not as if Molly Bloom herself was spilling the beans.
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He has made himself look a right twat with that interview. I mean MOM ... Is he for real.
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Can't we sack him for gross misconduct. As least fine him a year's salary.
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Listening to Ugo on radio, Villa are my club ... these are the players we love , not the c**ts like Ireland , who are just here for the money and wanking their careers away.
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"National teams don't interest me. I have more to do than go off for three days to play Andorra. "
Actually, you tit, you don't. And you just said so yourself!
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From sportinglife.com
'no point you coming, you are not in the team'.
"I was stuck with being paid for doing nothing at all"
I remember a few occasions where he did show up and was still being paid to nothing at all. What a shithead.
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Just wondering what the Newcastle fans would make of this. Here are a few select quotes from Toontastic.com.
"What a complete prick. I have never heard a footballer whinging cos they didn't get any grub, its not like you can't afford your own douch-bag. Seems like he needs to learn a very quick lesson in life. I can see him retiring in a few years when he has decided he has enough money and doesn't give a shit anymore. If your manager teels you to jump you say how high, not no i refuse to do what you ask because you are not playing me. That ain't gonna help your situation bonny lad"
"What and odious little c*** he is"
"jesus, what a wanker"
"Yup, the bloke is a grade A cock"
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Using a human translator (ie moi)
I expected Martin O'***** as manager, but he resigned the day after I arrived. He left because of Milner leaving (Ireland went the other way). In short, like in Manchester I found myself in a situation where the manager in place didn't choose me...
After 15 matches on the bench, Mr Houllier told me to stay at home. I trained during the week and on Friday, he said to me: There's no point you coming here, you're not in the squad. And yet I was the best player in training. Apparently that didn't matter.
I was stuck and, above all, I was paid to do fuck all. But I'm not angry at Houllier, he didn't choose me, after all...
How about a total refund of your wages, then?
@Bad Inglese: is "rien à foutre" as bad as it looks on paper?
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He certainly knows how to burn his bridges. I wonder what he'll be saying about Newcastle in a year's time?
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If he thinks we drew 0-0 at Chelsea he is obviously too stupid to even understand what ground we play at!
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He's only on loan at Newcastle.
He has put himself in a very difficult position when his loan ends.
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If Villa can sack some weird-beard website contributor who didn't really offend anyone with some daft comments he made, we should be able to get this cock-end off the payroll easily enough?
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He's only on loan at Newcastle.
He has put himself in a very difficult position when his loan ends.
It's easy. When he is back, put him on the bench and then tell him to warm up. The reaction will make him realise what a cock he is.
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He's only on loan at Newcastle.
He has put himself in a very difficult position when his loan ends.
It's easy. When he is back, put him on the bench and then tell him to warm up. The reaction will make him realise what a cock he is.
Good call.
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Of course It's all bollocks according to the man himself. (http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_6794112,00.html)
Ireland upset with reports
Midfielder unhappy with mischievous reports
Newcastle United's on-loan midfielder Stephen Ireland has moved to put the record straight on quotes attributed to him in Friday's newspapers regarding his parent club, Aston Villa, and his hometown in Ireland.
In an interview with French football magazine So Foot it was suggested that the 24-year-old had made derogatory comments regarding Villa and the cities of Birmingham and Cork.
However, having read the papers on Friday morning, Ireland was upset with the nature of the comments and felt the opinions that he aired during the interview were taken completely out of context.
"I'm upset with what has been printed this morning because I feel like I've been portrayed in the wrong way," Ireland told skysports.com in a statement issued from his agent.
"I was misquoted and things have been blown way out of proportion. That is the reason why I feel like I needed to say something because the quotes are very unfair.
"What I said during the interview has been twisted to sound particularly blunt and a lot of what was written about my hometown of Cork - which me and my family visit regularly - was just plain ridiculous.
"The comments regarding Birmingham were also taken way out of context as I had only been at Villa a few months and didn't even live there so I have no idea what Birmingham is like to live in and everyone I have met from Birmingham has been nice, my girlfriend's father is from Birmingham so why would I say that, it's just crazy.
"I can only apologise if anyone was offended, but the way the interview was written made me sound very harsh, and I am not that kind of person."
Ireland is hoping to make his Newcastle debut against Bolton this weekend after recovering from injury.
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Of course It's all bollocks according to the man himself. (http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_6794112,00.html)
Ireland is hoping to make his Newcastle debut against Bolton this weekend after recovering from injury.
He'll have a job doing that as WE are playing Bolton this weekend. Top journalism strikes again.
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He's only on loan at Newcastle.
He has put himself in a very difficult position when his loan ends.
It's easy. When he is back, put him on the bench and then tell him to warm up. The reaction will make him realise what a cock he is.
Good call.
But then Villa end up paying him the millions in wages that are left on the fucking wastrels contract.
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Not the old 'My comments were taken out of context' chestnut.
Prick.
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Not the old 'My comments were taken out of context' chestnut.
A shining example to us all and I, Mark Fletcher, am delighted he is at aston Villa.
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Not the old 'My comments were taken out of context' chestnut.
A shining example to us all and I, Mark Fletcher, am delighted he is at aston Villa.
I hope his balls turn square and fester at the edges.
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Were gonna end up having to give this ****** away on a free and then he'll have the nerve to ask for a pay off
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Not the old 'My comments were taken out of context' chestnut.
A shining example to us all and I, Mark Fletcher, am delighted he is at aston Villa.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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Not the old 'My comments were taken out of context' chestnut.
A shining example to us all and I, Mark Fletcher, am delighted he is at aston Villa.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
The alligator jumps over the comfy sofa.
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He's just an almighty simpleton.
RE: his Man of the Match performance- does he refer to the Chelsea goalless draw at Villa Park in which he missed a sitter after 8 minutes?
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He is a very misunderstood young man and with all that money at his disposal something will always go wrong.
He went to a plastic surgeon and asked if he could change his image so he could look like one of the Beatles.
The surgeon tried his best but could only make him look like that ****** with Wings.
(http://www.bestattoos.encie.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Stephen-Ireland-tattoo2.jpg)
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Pretty strong comments to be taken out of context, Stephen. If they've printed comments he didn't make, he can always sue.
Shocked to learn he has an agent. Just assumed he didn't have one, the total balls up he's making of his career.
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I think there is something deeper here. I honestly think the fella has mental health issues.
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Jeez how fat does Vass look in that pic?
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I think there is something deeper here. I honestly think the fella has mental health issues.
I think you're right, in all honesty. There's something very wrong here.
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Can I call the next person I get into a disagreement with on here a moronic, Bluenose-loving, ****** monkey and avoid a ban by claiming it was taken out of context?
No, thought not.
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Let's hope he plays well at Newcastle so we can actually make some money from his sale, and move on.
At the moment, we could have swapped Milner for £24 mill plus a multi pack of smoky bacon crisps.
At least Dunnie could have had a half time snack out of it.
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It's a shame, because he is exactly the kind of player we need at the moment.
As a player he's not bad, but he does'nt seem right to me.He's the kind of bloke where nobody turns up at his funeral because he's fell out/offended everyone around him.
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He really is completely off his trolley, isn't he? What an utterly deluded little tosser he is.
Pretty soon there'll be nobody left on earth who doesn't absolutely hate his guts - I wouldn't recommend too many trips to the lovely city of Cork in the near future, Stephen.
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From the Fiver
"Newcastle midfielder Stephen Ireland claims he was misquoted in an article which reported him saying about his time at Aston Villa: "[Ged] Houllier asked me to come and live in Birmingham because it was taking me 75 minutes to come to training, For a start, Birmingham is a crap 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." Ireland howled: "Everyone I have met from Birmingham have been nice - my girlfriend's father is from Birmingham, so why would I say that? It's just crazy. The way the interview was written made me sound very harsh.""
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Charlie Sheen time - except he hasn't denied saying anything derogatory about his employers! Otherwise, a similar lack of grasp on reality. Sad. I hope someone at Newcastle can intervene and get the lad playing again and keep him away from the press. Sacking his agent would seem like a good move, given the situations with the press he has set up his client to mess up.
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He's clearly doing a good job of burning his bridges.
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Irksome shit! I like how he said he'd signed for Martin O Neill, then he left. Never mind the fact the deal hadn't gone through for a good couple of weeks after O Neill had walked out. And if reports are to be believed, we were negotiating with him till the last minute the deal went through.
But yeah. "I said those things, but didn't mean them to sounds as harsh as they did cause I'm a nice boy, not a total prat!"
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He is so arrogant he doesn't even want to play for his country, what a waster... My Irish roots come from Cork and it isn't that bad, if I were an full blooded Irishman reading this I would not be happy.
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Cork says " Fuck You Too " .
If he did try to shoot himself he'd probably miss and then blame someone else.
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All you need to know about Stephen Ireland from the ever excellent Mediawatch section in Football 365 today:-
Wish You Were Here?
"I know I'm going to feel at home at Villa Park. I'm actually shocked at how good it is" - Stephen Ireland, August 22.
"Birmingham is a c**p city" - Stephen Ireland, March 4.
Heard It All Before
"It didn't matter what I did in training, I wasn't ever going to get anywhere. Every player there knows that I was the first into training and the last to leave. I worked the hardest. I was practically always the best player in training, too" - Ireland complains about his treatment at Man City, August 2010.
"I was the best player in training. It was my team that won in every session" - Ireland complains about his treatment at Aston Villa, March 2011.
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Ashley Cole?
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Wanker.
That's all i've got to say about him.
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Before all the bad press, his poor performances for us and the hyperbole surrounding it, you know, he was just a much of a twat then.
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Ironic that he's at Newcastle: it was where he debuted for Villa - apparently after having been absolutely lashed the night before. He obviously took his debut really seriously - and then got tonked 6-0.
He's in good company: Barton.
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Ironic that he's at Newcastle: it was where he debuted for Villa - apparently after having been absolutely lashed the night before. He obviously took his debut really seriously - and then got tonked 6-0.
He's in good company: Barton.
How do you know that, thanks for sharing though... I guess it just shows how arrogant he is to go on the pop before his debut.
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I've stood up for him and really wanted him to be given more of a chance here but if these quotes are true it's clear the guy has serious psychological issues.
One thing Stephen Ireland and Chris Smith both have in common - they both think Cork is a shithole. It's not though, I enjoyed my time in college there.
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Well he is rich enough, I can't understand why he doesn't just buy a fully functioning brain. Or any brain for that matter.
Stupid boy, things can change in football. He might have come back to BH in July with a new manager on board. I'd say he's pretty much burnt his bridges now. Can't think of many UK cities that would rival Los Angeles (unless he means Compton) so I dunno what he's going to make of Newcastle.
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Stephen Ireland, you're a useless, self-absorbed, childish, petulant, idiotic, ungrateful, thick, disgusting, overpaid, cosseted, pathetic, disrespectful, mad ******.
I didn't really say that, it's been blown all out of proportion so it looks harsh, it's not really what I would say.
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Stephen Ireland, you're a useless, self-absorbed, childish, petulant, idiotic, ungrateful, thick, disgusting, overpaid, cosseted, pathetic, disrespectful, mad c***.
I didn't really say that, it's been blown all out of proportion so it looks harsh, it's not really what I would say.
Steady on, Jimbo....that's a bit strong! I wouldn't call him cosseted.
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I'd watch it Roger! Ireland might well be your new 'neighbor' in a few months time
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What a complete wanker!! Self obsessed deluded little prick! Ugly shit to boot. Sack the little jerk NOW!
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Waste of space -
My abiding memory of him will be picking up an injury during pre-match
warm up at Villa Park (Everton) ..........to this day I still reckon he faked it
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Stephen Ireland....The Musical http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2011/0307/1224291483167.html
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Liked this bit:
Just a perfect day,
Played Fifa 2011 all by myself.
In HD, I pretended I was someone else,
Someone good.