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To be fair I think the home nations agreement which I understand states it is only parents place of birth that allows you to qualify should be the norm across the board. It's ludicrous that you could be eligible to play for 7 different countries.

I'm not sure you can use that as an excuse. If he has falsified his citizenship just to enable him to play for Ecuador then it is Fifa's concern, just as it would have been had they know about Cascarino all those years ago!!! If they do nothing then that opens the doors for other countries to...

I wonder if his parents could have considered dual citizenship! If not, he only lived here for 3 years and I think residency is 7 years! Would be nice if he were eligible though!! Perhaps if Keane hadn't exacerbated his knee problems he might have stayed longer and we could be looking at Kane...

Don't quite understand why, if he is found not to be Ecuadorian, they only award Chile two 3-0 wins and not everyone else that he played against? Unless of course they've already decided that the other games he was in would have no bearing on who finished 4th!!