Jeez! stop trying to twist words to make it something its not. He took the soft option for some International football, because he's not good enough, big deal. And now the soft option isn't that appealing The '2nd point' as you describe it, is the reason for the '1st point.' You said, "whats wrong with Ghana" If I wanted to be as pedantic as you, I could have said "there's nothing wrong with Ghana...its a very nice country", seeing as you missed 'playing for' out of your sentence. Maybe my initial description of you was accurate.