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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce_ma gooshvili" data-source="post: 1097457" data-attributes="member: 74121"><p>For me it's a 'tenuous' granny as in: </p><p></p><p>If the union of the nation you were born, raised and trained in wanted to select you for your national side, would you say no because you were desperately holding out on playing for a nation whose only connection to you was that your granny was born there but left there when she was a child? </p><p></p><p>99% of the time that's unlikely to be a true first choice to side with your granny's nation of birth against the nation of your own birth. Instead the decision is either motivated by money or by an understanding you aren't good enough for your first choice. So it's a 'tenuous' devotion to the jersey when compared to those selected for to play for the nation of their birth. </p><p></p><p>A tenuous grandad on the other hand is something completely different, usually involving drunken liaisons and/or seductive milkmen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce_ma gooshvili, post: 1097457, member: 74121"] For me it's a 'tenuous' granny as in: If the union of the nation you were born, raised and trained in wanted to select you for your national side, would you say no because you were desperately holding out on playing for a nation whose only connection to you was that your granny was born there but left there when she was a child? 99% of the time that's unlikely to be a true first choice to side with your granny's nation of birth against the nation of your own birth. Instead the decision is either motivated by money or by an understanding you aren't good enough for your first choice. So it's a 'tenuous' devotion to the jersey when compared to those selected for to play for the nation of their birth. A tenuous grandad on the other hand is something completely different, usually involving drunken liaisons and/or seductive milkmen. [/QUOTE]
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