The Everton veteran's display against Belgium was a reminder of the Republic of Ireland captain's great legacy
Seamus Coleman was playing his first international game in a year.
Coleman savours every minute he’s on the pitch in a green shirt. He loves the battle. You could see he relished the challenge of taking on Manchester City’s highly rated Jeremy Doku — 14 years his junior. He didn’t want that battle cut short. It’s a position where managers often go for younger players, partly because so many teams have lightning fast wide attackers now.
That just doesn’t sit right. In modern international football, there are so many games that, having been around for 13 years, Coleman should be a centurion.I have a lot of time for McClean, but the Everton man has had a better career, and is a better footballer. But there was to be no big move away from Everton. The broken leg suffered against Wales ensured that wouldn’t happen.The two had worked together during Lampard’s spell as Everton manager and Roy Keane asked him what he’d made of the Irishman.
“But there’s not a bit of him that’s not genuine, and he wore it on his face when we were struggling. It was like he really cared about it.”
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