{"id":24161,"date":"2011-12-30T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T10:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/mcleish-unhappy-at-ireland-photo\/"},"modified":"2011-12-30T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T10:13:18","slug":"mcleish-unhappy-at-ireland-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/30\/mcleish-unhappy-at-ireland-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"McLeish unhappy at Ireland photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"69.66910523354\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57618000\/jpg\/_57618063_stireland.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Stephen Ireland\" \/> Ireland as posted on social networking site Twitter<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish has urged Stephen Ireland to create headlines on the pitch following the appearance of a controversial photo on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The picture was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessica_lawlor\/status\/149970968134168577\">posted on the account of Ireland&#8217;s girlfriend<\/a>, Jessica Lawlor, on 22 December.<\/p>\n<p>It shows Ireland wearing silver snakeskin trousers, with a smoking pipe in one hand and a drink in the other.<\/p>\n<p>McLeish said: &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be bringing attention to yourself. It is not something I want to be discussing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2005-10:<\/strong> Man City, 176 apps<\/li>\n<li><strong>2010-Present:<\/strong> Aston Villa, 21 apps<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011:<\/strong> Newcastle (loan), 2 apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Was it a shisha pipe or something? I don&#8217;t know what is in that stuff. For all I know he could have been blowing bubbles into it or something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not my world, the way the players live nowadays, with the tweeting and posting pictures of themselves and that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any opinion I have on that will be delivered to Stephen rather than discussing it in the newspapers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ireland <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/teams\/m\/man_city\/8918222.stm\" title=\"Milner completes move to Man City\">joined Villa from Manchester City 18 months ago<\/a> but is yet to cement a first-team place at the club.<\/p>\n<p>McLeish said: &#8220;He has been training well and played really well in the first half of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/16173216.stm\">Arsenal game<\/a> [on 21 December].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got to take that kind of attitude into other games. We know what he can do when he has got the ball. We know he has a got a decent touch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he showed the other attributes in the Arsenal game with his closing down and harrying of people. He has to do more of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that he has not really done himself total justice in a Villa shirt. There is still a chance for him, there is still a chance for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be opportunities over the next two or three games for him to show us what he is really capable of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ireland as posted on social networking site Twitter Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish has urged Stephen Ireland to create headlines on the pitch following the appearance of a controversial photo on Twitter. 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