Which Spurs players tried to skip England duty?

[spursgirls]

Sorry no time to read all of the thread, so apologies if this has been posted already.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ayers-amid-the-redknappgerrard-england-furore

 

[tototoner]

What is all this chat about a witch hunt, no one gives a fuck if a player wants to play for his country or not

 

[Savage7]

Let's be honest...
Set the scene, you are a professional footballer training nearly every day of the week and playing twice weekly.
You get a call up to a meaningless freindly against Lithuania.
All your mates get a well deserved rest while 'lucky' you has to travel half way across the world to carry out extra training to sit on the bench as we all know Milner and co will be playing again.
Can't blame anyone for not wanting to play particularly after constantly being overlooked in favour of lesser players becuase of what cloud they are at!
And as previous people have said all the starters also pull out with mysterious injuries yet becuase they are at big clubs they get away with it. Remember fergie refusing to let someone play (can't remember who it was) and well known for dictating that his players can only pay so long...

Off topic slightly but it ites I with England. Makes me laugh how people expect us to ever do anything in the world cup. Yes we have some top attacking threats, Sterling, Sturridge, lallana (overlooked nonetheless) but did these players contribute to qualification and therefore have time o gel together bad become a team?! No. He could of blooded them through but kept with the shit and scraped though and then put a load of youngsters In the squad (down to pressure from within built by the public) against his own wishes.
The people say they don't have enough experience?! Well it was the old faithfully and thr old enough to know better back four who decided to watch the ball and not saurez not once but twice!
Follow the lead of smaller nations and go with youth and build it from now to the euros and world cup and get rid of players that are past ur. People like to blame the clubs for not giving youth a have but do England???

 

[tototoner]

Sorry no time to read all of the thread, so apologies if this has been posted already.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ayers-amid-the-redknappgerrard-england-furore

Very good article

 

[ultimateloner]

who cares? its not likely to be true and even if it is, it's not terrible.

 

[leonspurs]

The sensible ones.

 

[Leo]

Any one of the players who played for England whilst Redknapp was manager could sue him for Liable as there were probs about 5 players and he's saying only 1-2. His comments were bang out of order but nothing I wouldn't expect from him.

 

[jurgen]

Now saying he won't name names.. Of course..shame he can't shut up..

 

[aliyid]

It's the hypocrisy surrounding this that gets me. If they want to start a witch-hunt about players who pull out of representing England then why not target John Terry rather than say that Hodgson should have begged him to come back and play

There are way too many high profile pull outs of England internationals but it's mainly the likes of Gerrard, Rooney & Lampard who always have slight knocks a day before the game... Putting the focus on players who aren't even in the WC squad is massively missing the point.

 

[parklane1]

Now saying he won't name names.. Of course..shame he can't shut up..

As i have said before he suffers from verbal diarrhea.

 

[Flashspur]

Harry loves to pontificate on everything and I think he walked into a bit of a storm as Hodgson and Gerrard are pretty sensitive to criticism at the moment. Wouldn't you be if you got a big fat 0 points at the WC?

I dont think anything Harry said is a lie. The number of times players pull out of international games is farcical. It really is...and everyone does it.

 

[michaelden]

Harry loves to pontificate on everything and I think he walked into a bit of a storm as Hodgson and Gerrard are pretty sensitive to criticism at the moment. Wouldn't you be if you got a big fat 0 points at the WC?

I dont think anything Harry said is a lie. The number of times players pull out of international games is farcical. It really is...and everyone does it.

And I think this is where Harry went wrong, he singled out Spurs England players, not all England players. We know they all do it, but to say it happened & he let it means that...


Whao!!!! Hold on a fucking second! Harry "I want the England Job" Fucking Redknapp LET and ASSISTED in Spurs players skipping International Duty... You fucking greasy slimy no-good microphone-gobbler, if you are so against it on your moral high horse why the fuck would you help the players to skip their duty?!

 

[IanC]

We know the twitchy gobshite exaggerates everything. It was probably one player with a decent reason for not wanting to play. Harry turns that into it must be 2-3 players and the media fall for it. Now someone backs him into a corner and he says I cant name them as it would be unfair on the players. Too late for that as it's not hard to work out a shortlist of England players who was under his reign. Now they are all under scrutiny. The sooner he he is out of football the better and the better for it football will be.

 

[266in379]

If it was Paul Robinson, who could blame him?! One terribly unfortunate incident in Croatia, the press and the rest of the country blame him (and not one word against Gary Neville for passing back on goal) and poor old Robbo went down the drain. I wouldn't blame him one bit if he'd asked to be excused from P.E after that.

 

[Mattspur]

I'm not sure if it's been said already in this thread but given Redknapp's comments about the player saying his Mrs was having a baby in 4 weeks I think that it may be Crouch that he's referring to. Crouch pulled out of the England squad which faced Denmark in a friendly in Copenhagen on 9 Feb 2011, just a few weeks before the birth of his daughter Sophia on 14 March. Crouch started the Spurs match against Bolton on 5 Feb (but was subed off for Pav, who scored the winner) and was an unused sub for our match against Sunderland on 12 Feb.

 

[SlickMongoose]

I'm not sure if it's been said already in this thread but given Redknapp's comments about the player saying his Mrs was having a baby in 4 weeks I think that it may be Crouch that he's referring to. Crouch pulled out of the England squad which faced Denmark in a friendly in Copenhagen on 9 Feb 2011, just a few weeks before the birth of his daughter Sophia on 14 March. Crouch started the Spurs match against Bolton on 5 Feb (but was subed off for Pav, who scored the winner) and was an unused sub for our match against Sunderland on 12 Feb.

Spoiler

 

[fridgemagnet]

I'm not sure if it's been said already in this thread but given Redknapp's comments about the player saying his Mrs was having a baby in 4 weeks I think that it may be Crouch that he's referring to. Crouch pulled out of the England squad which faced Denmark in a friendly in Copenhagen on 9 Feb 2011, just a few weeks before the birth of his daughter Sophia on 14 March. Crouch started the Spurs match against Bolton on 5 Feb (but was subed off for Pav, who scored the winner) and was an unused sub for our match against Sunderland on 12 Feb.

4 weeks sounds right for the length of time it takes a baby giraffe to fall to the floor.

 

[BoringOldFan]

Presumably the game to be avoided was a meaningless friendly imposed by UEFA/FIFA. If a player doesn't want to play for his country, he can announce his retirement from international football. Jimmy Greaves did this following several call-ups after the 1966 World Cup without getting a game. I think Ray Clemence did something similar, after realising Shilton was the no.1 pick for GK.

 

[CheeseGromit]

Another example of Arry re writing history

Likelihood is that a player now and then does ask not to go but Arry turns it into a drama. Not a regular thing Im sure SAF was always telling his players not to make themselves available so something must go on but Arry has been on the TV well except for the stupid ads for a week or two He is suffering from lack of exposure

 

[Rupstoh]

Playing for my country and Spurs was a boyhood dream.

What example does HR's comment send to the kids of the future? A positive one!

Children need motivation and he is just stating the obvious; the youth of English football are taking the wage from the country/fans and don't want to play for it.

I agree that he should share the information and make it public, yet still become the next manager of England, make a stance and name those clubs who have stopped any player from representing England.

The Germans would never allow a player to not participate.