A young English lad has chosen to play for England.
Cue: meltdown.
Jack Grealish’s dallying over his international future didn’t help. Nor did the years of playing for the Republic’s underage teams.
But the Aston Villa attacker has made his decision and, naturally, it caused a split camp.
The Twitter trends stomped a lot of people.
https://twitter.com/merleterv/status/648478990999662592
Not everyone.
Grealish what a snake 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍
— wayne forsyth (@wayneforsyth) September 28, 2015
It wasn’t so much his choice of team than it was his choice of manager.
@AVFCOfficial @JackGrealish1 what an idiot, who the fuck would want to play for Roy Hodgson?
— Joey (@Joey_CFC) September 28, 2015
Playing for England instead of Ireland can only mean one thing for Villa players.
https://twitter.com/westhamtransfer/status/648466603298947072
Someone predicted the shift.
https://twitter.com/AVMax_/status/648467344457605120
And it was a seismic shift.
https://twitter.com/Killian_Harte/status/648477733673152512
He was no Damien Duff anyway #Grealish
— ShaneM (@ShaneMurphy95) September 28, 2015
https://twitter.com/eamonmckelvey/status/648470996408791040
I always prefered Tony (Grealish) anyway. ! #FAI
— Con Murphy (@ConMurphySport) September 28, 2015
Good choice from Grealish. He would have struggled to get into the #ROI starting XI anyway…
— Sean Gallagher (@Sean_Gallagher9) September 28, 2015
Our loss.
Ireland have been crying out for a player with superstar potential for years. Could have been the poster boy for a generation #grealish
— Ben Grounds (@Ben_Islington) September 28, 2015
But a lot think that it’s his loss.
I see Jack Grealish has retired from international football.
— Niall McCoy (@McCoyNiall) September 28, 2015
@JackGrealish1 enjoy being a 1 cap wonder u scrub
— Garehh (@Garehh_) September 28, 2015
Jack Grealish for England? Brilliant, another overhyped and overrated player that's not good enough.
— Elias (@EIiasCPFC) September 28, 2015
Can't believe people reckon Jack Grealish is good enough to be on an English squad, never mind the Irish squad.
— Ciarán 🇵🇸 (@Call_Me_Ciaran) September 28, 2015
Some were happy.
https://twitter.com/LagerDashAsh/status/648470568161923072
Welcome Jack Grealish 👏🏻
— Anthonius Lucky SHP (@anthoniuslucky) September 28, 2015
Some were suspicious.
I've been reliably informed that Jack Grealish has elected to play for England because it makes more "commercial sense" to do so. Great
— Luke Edwards (@LukeEdwardsTele) September 28, 2015
Some were still confused.
https://twitter.com/_lindsaysmth/status/648473746408382466
But most were just angry.
Proper angry about Grealish the wee fucker
— Conor Keenan (@ConorJKeenan) September 28, 2015
Jesus, a sound lad…
@JackGrealish1 I'm gutted as a Irish man but it was always your decision! Hopefully you made the right one for yourself!
— robavfc (@burtmacklin316) September 28, 2015
