James McClean is an honourable man

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You were harsh on England and Gareth Southgate, but you are probably right. Only those with no interest in cricket will be mildly interested in the summer time waste which will be the 2018 World Cup Finals. @mraadufu

Nail on head re Southgate and England.

@standardduncan

I agree Netherton are a great club. They took risks early on to provide football for all.

@Alexbro70

When England get dumped out at the group stages in Russia, the Wales fans can have their day again.

@paulcook288

Not wearing a poppy doesn’t mean James McClean hates the English. I respect him for doing what he should do, despite all the rubbish he gets.

@duncanjackson80

James McClean is not awful. He’s a decent, honourable man who has different beliefs to others and has the courage to stand by them.

@NoThemOnoyUs.

Do the Irish realise they may play some half decent team in the play-offs? Theirs was a victory for ‘total football’, that’s totally crap football.

@capper_mike

Wales are still an international footballing force as we made @PTAlanSwann’s ‘World of Sport’ page. This ensures my days of disappointment have ended @buckrodgersposh

Ireland were poor, Wales were worse. @Iluvfootball I wondered how long it would be before the Leicester City playing staff sacked their manager again. But, despite clear signs Craig Shakespeare (above) was completely out of his depth, I didn’t think he would be gone after just eight matches of a new Premier League season and four months after signing a new three-year contract. Maybe, just maybe the likes of Jamie Vardy, Danny Simpson and Kasper Schmeichel are not quite as good as they think they are. Maybe they are as much the problem as the management team that guided them to a most unlikely Premier League title. Anyway they now have exactly what they deserved. The man in charge of the next Leicester City game is one Michael Appleton. I do hope the Foxes promote permanently from within again. So the senior players in the Welsh team have begged Chris Coleman to stay on as manager. Why’s that then? Are they happy to be mediocre? Wales have just failed to progress from a World Cup qualifying group, after losing at home to the worst Republic of Ireland team in recent history, despite the presence of a world class superstar in their squad. They lost to a team managed by dinosaur Martin O’Neill whose best player is proverbial nuisance James McClean. Northern Ireland boss Michael O’Neill (above) is a far superior manager to Coleman. He could make the World Cup Finals in Russia even though his star strikers either play in League One or for QPR Reserves. Coleman might be regretting not taking a club job when his stock was high after the last Euros.