The Twerp That Is Tyrone

[gkmacca]

AS a defender, Tyrone Mears knows you get punished for playing a man on-side - especially if it's the WRONG side.

And that's now happened to the Burnley star after playing football for a country he has NO link to.


The balls-up came when Tyrone - who thought he was of Jamaican blood - was asked to play by their old boss John Barnes.


It was the right-back's first international cap - but the Jamaican FA MISSED the fact Tyrone's long lost father was AFRICAN.


Now the 26-year-old must pay the ultimate penalty - not being able to fulfil his boyhood dream of playing for England.


FIFA rules state that a player who has participated in an official match for one international team, can't represent another.


Tyrone, born in Stockport to a British mum, told the News of the World: "It was an honest mistake on my part. I can't believe the Jamaican FA didn't check in the registration process!"


The Premier League player, rated as England's second-best right-back by Opta stats, was recovering from an injury at the start of the year while playing for French club Marseille.


He added: "I was desperate for games at the time. When Barnes asked me about Jamaica I thought I'd see if I qualified."


That's when Mears began digging into his father's past and was told he had Jamaican roots.


He added: "I gave the Jamaican FA my name, my father's name and that was it. I didn't have to submit my passport."

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/586692/Jamaica-mistake-Tyrone-Burnley-fottballer-Mears-cant-play-for-England.html

What a buffoon. English-born players with Irish or Scottish parents or grandparents is one thing, but this is beyond a joke. Hopefully the Jamaican FA's great mate at FIFA, that ghastly old crook Jack Warner, will now take them to task for being incompetant, like he's always doing with the English FA.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Haha. The big div.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

But where's the bit about him not getting onto the fact Molly is banging Kevin?

 

[refugee]

[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=37021.msg982526#msg982526 date=1257681913]

Now the 26-year-old must pay the ultimate penalty - not being able to fulfil his boyhood dream of playing for England.

[/quote]

I'm a bit hung over so I might be reading this wrong but surely by playing for any other national team (whether you qualify for them or not) you are automatically denying yourself the chance to play for England?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I think the fact he's 26 and no-one has ever heard of him is enough to confirm that he'll never play for England.

 

[gkmacca]

[quote author=refugee link=topic=37021.msg982550#msg982550 date=1257684104]
[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=37021.msg982526#msg982526 date=1257681913]

Now the 26-year-old must pay the ultimate penalty - not being able to fulfil his boyhood dream of playing for England.

[/quote]

I'm a bit hung over so I might be reading this wrong but surely by playing for any other national team (whether you qualify for them or not) you are automatically denying yourself the chance to play for England?
[/quote]

I think you can play in a friendly, can't you? Or something.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

So its the FA to blame for not checking, but not himself? What a clown.

There's something dodgy about Jamaican sports

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Black bob-sleighers.

*Shakes head and tuts*

 

[gkmacca]

FIFA:

If a player has been included in a national or representative team of a country for which he is eligible to play, he shall not be permitted to take part in an international match for another country. Accordingly, any player who is qualified to play for more than one national association (i.e. who has dual nationality) will be deemed to have committed himself to one association only when he plays his first international match in an official competition (at any level) for that association.
The only players exempt from this provision are those whose nationality has been changed not voluntarily but as the result of an international decree either granting independence to a region or ceding part of one country to another.â€

 

[Asbo]

[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=37021.msg982562#msg982562 date=1257684700]
FIFA:

If a player has been included in a national or representative team of a country for which he is eligible to play, he shall not be permitted to take part in an international match for another country. Accordingly, any player who is qualified to play for more than one national association (i.e. who has dual nationality) will be deemed to have committed himself to one association only when he plays his first international match in an official competition (at any level) for that association.
The only players exempt from this provision are those whose nationality has been changed not voluntarily but as the result of an international decree either granting independence to a region or ceding part of one country to another.â€

[/quote]

He wasn't technically eligable was he

 

[refugee]

[quote author=gkmacca link=topic=37021.msg982562#msg982562 date=1257684700]
FIFA:

If a player has been included in a national or representative team of a country for which he is eligible to play, he shall not be permitted to take part in an international match for another country. Accordingly, any player who is qualified to play for more than one national association (i.e. who has dual nationality) will be deemed to have committed himself to one association only when he plays his first international match in an official competition (at any level) for that association.
The only players exempt from this provision are those whose nationality has been changed not voluntarily but as the result of an international decree either granting independence to a region or ceding part of one country to another.â€

[/quote]

That makes more sense, cheers Macca

 

[SaintGeorge67]

I don't think he'll need to worry about it

 

[ILD]

[quote author=Sheik Yerbouti link=topic=37021.msg982534#msg982534 date=1257682449]
But where's the bit about him not getting onto the fact Molly is banging Kevin?
[/quote]

Hahaha. Poor Tyrone.

 

[ILD]

[quote author=Sheik Yerbouti link=topic=37021.msg982557#msg982557 date=1257684422]
I think the fact he's 26 and no-one has ever heard of him is enough to confirm that he'll never play for England.
[/quote]

When he was at Derby we were linked to him. I nearly fainted when I read it.