Wilson: You don’t pick your country for a career

Marc Wilson has laughed off Michael O’Neill’s suggestion that players from the North who have declared for the Republic have not had the best of it.

The Northern Ireland manager made his comments in Dublin this week but Antrim-born Wilson, one of the players O’ Neill had offered by way of evidence for his observation, has dismissed the criticism.

With a laugh, he says: “It’s a strange one, isn’t it? I don’t know how he could say we would have had a better career if we chose to play for Northern Ireland to be honest. I think that’s none of his business. You don’t pick your country for a career, definitely not.”