As England gear up for their quarter-final game against France at the weekend, it’s been revealed that one of their players of the tournament thus far Jude Bellingham could have played for Ireland through a grandmother.

Mark tweeted as the pandemic raged in September 2020: “This half Irish kid [Mark] is going to go online and watch his mixed race England U21 international son [Jude] make his competitive debut in the German Cup.”

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There’s a good few of the English team that could have played for Ireland including the captain Harry Kane and of course we all know about Declan Rice and Jack Grealish who already played for Ireland at senior and underage level..