"At precisely 4.59pm in Dublin, an act of great treachery took place. Nobody will forget where they were on the day when Lee Carsley from Birmingham stood and decided not to sing a song moments before leading England to an easy 2-0 win over the Republic of Ireland in their 2024 Nations League opener."
"How can the nation be expected to move forward when its football team is led by a man merrily refusing to even mouth the words to the national anthem?"
"Carsley, a former Ireland international, was naive if he failed to see the backlash coming. The irony was that choosing to stick to football had left the 50-year-old open to criticism."
"This was from the same playbook as previous episodes - the row over taking the knee, the fury over the woke rainbow kit - and it was impossible not to marvel at the fury reaching such a pitch that one article even argued that the only proper course of action for the Football Association would be to fire Carsley moments before kick-off at the Aviva Stadium."
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