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bobbymoore 2:10 Fri Aug 29
Noble considering Ireland - Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2737152/Mark-Noble-ready-play-Ireland-West-Ham-midfielder-gives-England-call-up.html




Mark Noble will give serious consideration to representing the Republic of Ireland at international level after being overlooked by England manager Roy Hodgson.

It has emerged that the West Ham United midfielder qualifies for Ireland by virtue of his paternal grandparents and has been pursued by manager Martin O’Neill since he took over last November.

Assistant Roy Keane is believed to have scouted Noble, 27, and O’Neill wants to bring him into the Irish set-up to add quality to his midfield options for the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign.

Noble was named West Ham’s player of the year last season and it had been expected he might be included in Hodgson’s latest squad for the friendly with Norway and qualifier against Switzerland.

He was on the England radar but instead Jack Colback and Fabian Delph got the nod, leaving Noble thinking about accepting O’Neill’s offer. A passport would need to be sorted but that hurdle is not envisaged to present any problems.

Noble, born in Canning Town, London, represented England at youth levels and captained the Under-21 side that made the final of the 2009 European Championships.

That 4-0 defeat five years ago to a Germany side that included six future World Cup winners was Noble’s last in an England shirt. In all he won 20 caps, scoring three goals for the Under-21s.

Since then he has established himself as one of West Ham’s most important players and is this year celebrating a decade of first-team football at Upton Park. He has scored 33 goals in 287 appearances for the club.

Noble, who attracted interest from Sunderland and Newcastle this summer, was thought to have been looked at by O’Neill’s predecessor Giovanni Trapattoni and would provide a strong partner for James McCarthy in central midfield were he pledge allegiance to Ireland.

Mate 11:13 Sat Aug 30
Re: Noble considering Ireland - Daily Mail

I'd tell Noble to fuck off if I were Irish. 27 years old and only wants to play for Ireland because his first choice of England think that he is not good enough. He should stick to fishing.

Sven Roeder 11:11 Sat Aug 30
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Agree about the lack of connection between players progressing through from U21's.
Apart from their beefing up of youth football and academies the other thing Germany did when they reached a 'low ebb' (its all relative in their case) was ditch the older players who had failed and progressed the young un's they had been developing.
England have just kept picking the same old failures from tournament to tournament.

BarryShitpeas 11:09 Sat Aug 30
Re: Noble considering Ireland - Daily Mail

I qualify for Ireland but could never pull their shirt on. It ain't right

balders 11:02 Sat Aug 30
Re: Noble considering Ireland - Daily Mail

Bet he will love the anti English songs they sing every game

Be funny to see him sign god save the queen when their national athem starts

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 9:56 Sat Aug 30
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cholo 8:14 Sat Aug 30

No.

Mex Martillo 9:52 Sat Aug 30
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It was said that a strength of the German team that won the World Cup was that they all new each other so well and had been basically the same team playing at all youth levels through to the World Cup.
Compare that to England the captain from under 21 never played again and Engliand out of World Cup with 1 point

greenie1 9:33 Sat Aug 30
Re: Noble considering Ireland - Daily Mail

Di Canio could have played for England.

Sven Roeder 8:50 Sat Aug 30
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I know there are extra places at Euro 2016 but I haven't looked at ROI's group to see if they have a realistic chance.
Could understand if he wanted the chance to play in a major tournament but if it was a matter of random qualifiers in Estonia, Andorra & Ukraine with nothing at the end of it I'm not sure it would be that much of interest.

Sydney_Iron 8:40 Sat Aug 30
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Yes Sven it would make them massive hypocrites

Just 2 of Englands current crop........

Raheem Sterling born in Jamaica to Jamaican parents, Wilfred Zaha born in the Ivory Coast to guess who? Ivorian parents neither have any link to England apart from living and playing in the UK yet both will play for England and both are considered amongst “our” best young prospects.

The list past and present could go on and on, and not just football but Athletics, Cricket etc etc.

Noble wants International football and who can blame him, hes getting older now so time is running out, cant see any problem with this what so ever.

Sven Roeder 8:34 Sat Aug 30
Re: Noble considering Ireland - Daily Mail

I expressed surprise that he would consider it but it depends how keen he is to play international football.
Some just want the opportunity to maybe play it and others wouldn't feel right playing for 'another country'.
Can't imagine England fans would have a problem
Without being massive hypocrites

cholo 8:14 Sat Aug 30
Re: Noble considering Ireland - Daily Mail

Isn't it that he qualifies to play because he qualifies for a passport?

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 8:13 Sat Aug 30
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Re the OP

Why would Noble need an Irish passport? If he qualifies to play, he qualifies to play.

Monk~koknee 7:41 Sat Aug 30
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Sydney_Iron 7:38 Sat Aug 30

Sydney_Iron 7:38 Sat Aug 30
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If I was Noble I would play for Ireland, no problem, all this bollocks about turning your back on your country, do fuck off.

And the fact Rooney has been made Captain is a kick in the balls for the national team, Rooney who publicly slagged the fans when they had every right to be pissed off in South Africa is appointed, joke National side.

Then that mong Woy picks the likes of Ginger Colbeck and Danny Rose, FFS, if I was Noble I would be on the phone to O’Neil with a big YES

Oliver Cromwell 7:29 Sat Aug 30
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He should do what i do and just accept that he will never play football for his country instead of whoring himself out show some class son

AnotherDay_SameShit 7:18 Sat Aug 30
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Oliver Cromwell 7:07 Sat Aug 30
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Be a total wrong'un
You never turn your back on your country''


So that's why you call yourself Oliver Cromwell. I can understand Noble being pissed off, but becoming a plastic Paddy is a big no no. Fucking Colback? Do me a favour.

Monk~koknee 7:12 Sat Aug 30
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Can imagine him dressed as a leprechaun and riverdancing across the midfiield.

Let's face it he is never going to get a shout for England.

Oliver Cromwell 7:07 Sat Aug 30
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Be a total wrong'un
You never turn your back on your country

Lertie Button 1:34 Sat Aug 30
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One of the few Englishmen who play in the premiership.

Must be sickened to see the latest " flavour of the month" by pass him into the England squad.

Good luck to him.

british is best 1:22 Sat Aug 30
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I don't blame him .i don't think hes international material by a long way but hes better than cleverly and colback .

Norman 9:50 Fri Aug 29
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Swindon does it Bother you that there is Two Full blooded Irishman in the England cricket team. Ireland have made good use of the eligibility rules but it's a small country with mass emigration. I find it worse teams like Spain playing Brazilians when they have no Spanish ties what so ever

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