Kyle Lafferty: Rangers forward not available for Hamilton clash as Irish FA invoke five-day rule
denied The FIFA ruling prevents players who withdraw from international duty from playing for the next five days Rangers forward Kyle Lafferty is not available for this weekend’s Scottish Premiership clash against Hamilton after the Irish FA blocked him from playing. Lafferty was expected to be fit for Sunday’s fixture, despite his withdrawal from the Northern Ireland squad earlier this month with an alleged Achilles injury. Lafferty has won 68 caps for his country but decided to rule himself out the most recent international break The 31-year-old ‘ruled himself out’ of the matches against Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to Michael O’Neill, the Northern Ireland manager, and the Irish FA have responded b...