Ireland hits out at Houllier and the City of Birmingham!

[Bad English]

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.

[JUAN PABLO]

He has made himself look a right twat with that interview.   I mean MOM ...  Is he for real. 

 

[London Villan]

Can't we sack him for gross misconduct. As least fine him a year's salary.

[JUAN PABLO]

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.     

[Chris Harte]

"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!

[tim]

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.

[LeeS]

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"
 

[Michel Sibble]

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?

[not3bad]

He certainly knows how to burn his bridges.  I wonder what he'll be saying about Newcastle in a year's time?

[Richard E]

If he thinks we drew 0-0 at Chelsea he is obviously too stupid to even understand what ground we play at!

[andyh]

He's only on loan at Newcastle.
He has put himself in a very difficult position when his loan ends.

[Chico Hamilton III]

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?

[Dave P]

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.

[bob]

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.

[Dave P]

Of course It's all bollocks according to the man himself.

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.