The best thing any coach can do after naming their World Cup side is run for cover as fast as they can. Throughout the course of history, there has never been a time when a country is in entire agreement over the players selected to achieve world domination. It probably just comes down to human nature and the fact that people are prone to having opinions and feeling hard done by. After all, how can anybody possibly know better?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an amazing phenomenon as the players now out of the side are all of a sudden world-beaters and the ones on the plane to the World Cup have become \u2018bog standard at best.\u2019 Maybe it\u2019s also a case of wanting to be heard and joining in the conversation, the latter being perfectly understandable and even good for the game.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an amazing phenomenon as the players now out of the side are all of a sudden world-beaters and the ones on the plane to the World Cup have become \u2018bog standard at best.\u2019 Maybe it\u2019s also a case of wanting to be heard and joining in the conversation, the latter being perfectly understandable and even good for the game. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
There is another scenario, however, that will attract even more of the public wrath and that is when a coach picks a player who only became eligible to play for their new home country a couple of weeks before a World Cup, over a player that was born there. That\u2019s right, we\u2019re talking about South African born Jean Kleyn being selected<\/a><\/span><\/span> over the long-serving Irish lock, Dev Toner.<\/p>\n