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Aidan Fitzmaurice: Declan Rice’s national call is a case of Ireland v England rivalry’s ebb and flow

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Aidan Fitzmaurice: Declan Rice’s national call is a case of Ireland v England rivalry’s ebb and flow

Death threats are a thing of past as new generation are not as upset about defections as fans were decades ago

John O’Shea, left, and Declan Rice during Republic of Ireland training at the FAI National Training Centre in Abbotstown in June 2018. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

The person speaking, back in the early 1980s, was an Ireland international, but English-born, with an English accent.

The location was the dressing room, in England, of an English club, and before a game, while reading the newspaper and an account of an IRA landmine which took the lives of four British soldiers, he said, to no one in particular in a room full of team-mates who were all British, “great stuff, that’s another four of you bastards that we got” which resulting in a thumping by those team-mates, deeply upset at the comment.

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