Reading's Irish

[tetsujin1979]

Hunt picked up a concussion scoring yesterday, so he might miss the game on thursday: http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1412765,00.html

[Stuttgart88]

All Irish scorers today in the 3-1 for Reading over Burnley. Long, the 2 Hunts and McCann. Good stuff. Doyle also made at least one of the Reading goals.Presumably the first time there have been 4 Irish goalscorers in one match in the UK. Probably anywhere other than Ireland - even in an international?

[paul_oshea]

stutts im not fully sure what your point about internationals as to me it doesnt make sense. but what about a score game where an irish international scored an own goal, and that was the only goal scored for the international team.

[SkStu]

hows about England 1 (Staunton o.g.) - Ireland 1 (Quinn) - its in the UK too... good enough for you PoS....

[Irish_Praha]

stutts im not fully sure what your point about internationals as to me it doesnt make sense. but what about a score game where an irish international scored an own goal, and that was the only goal scored for the international team.

I presume the International point is that in an International game all the players on each team come from the same country making it more likely that 4 scorers from the same country would score. Whereas in a Chamionship game the teams are a mixture of probably 5 to 10 different nations.

[Stuttgart88]

Simple enough Paul:

4 separate Irish goalscorers in one game. My guess is this is the first time ever in the UK. In Ireland it'd be common but not in Ireland it wouldn't. Even in our 4-0 win in Cyprus Keane scored twice. The 4-0 in Liectenstein maybe? I can't recall too many high scoring away wins even against minnows. Any LOI teams get many big away wins in Europe? I recall Rovers beating Fram Reykjavik about 20 years ago but I think it was 3-0 over there.

[tetsujin1979]

Presumably the first time there have been 4 Irish goalscorers in one match in the UK. Probably anywhere other than Ireland - even in an international?
I can't definitely say if it never happened, but I had a look through the records on irish abroad.
In the last 3 seasons there's only one other game when there were technically 4 goalscorers, although two of them were OG's:
14 August 2007
MK Dons 3 - 3 Ipswich (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=531263)
Scorers: Garvan (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=40419), Lee (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=9679)(p), Bruce (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=40576)(og), Murphy (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=45523)(og)

there were 4 goals or more scored in these games, all scored by Irish players:
26 December 2007
Barnsley 3 - 3 Stoke (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=538681)
Scorers: Macken (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=10775) (2), Lawrence (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=19046) (3)

16 September 2008
Reading 6 - 0 Sheffield Wednesday (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=560314)
Scorers: Doyle (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=41354)(3), N.Hunt (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=34469) (2)

6 May 2007
Luton 0 - 5 Sunderland (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=515510)
Scorers: Stokes (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=42483), Murphy (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=41274)(2), Connolly (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=1602)

9 April 2007
Preston 2 - 3 Southend United (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=514017)
Scorers: St. Ledger (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=34723), Maher (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=13772)(2), McCormack (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=34328)

26 January 2008
Watford 1 - 4 Wolverhampton Wanderers (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=541801)
Scorers: O'Toole (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=47180), Keogh (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=39039) (2), Elliott (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=37913)

30 August 2008
Macclesfield 0 - 6 Darlington (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=560723)
Scorers: Clarke (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=41447) (4)

27 September 2008
Reading 4 - 0 Swansea (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/resultDetails.xquery?resultID=562885)
Scorers: N.Hunt (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=34469), Doyle (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=41354) (2), S.Hunt (http://www.chatsoccer.net/irishabroad/playerDetails.xquery?playerID=17143)

There's never been more than 5 goals scored by Irish players in one game in that time

[irishultra]

^^^^^^^^^^

God.

[tetsujin1979]

^^^^^^^^^^

God.

Cheers irishultra!
This is actually the kind of thing I had in mind when I started the Irish Abroad posts 2 years (!!) ago

[richieos]

all these irish players scoring weekly for reading and dave mooney has yet to make his league debut :D

[co. down green]

Doyle named Championship player of the month (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/r/reading/7658638.stm)

[Longfordian]

all these irish players scoring weekly for reading and dave mooney has yet to make his league debut :D

He's knocked in a few for the Reserves in his few games, scored again today in a 3-3 draw according to the Reading site. It'll be hard to get in with all his fellow Irish strikers amongst the goals recently.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Rare goal for Stephen Quinn and Josh Barrett on at half-time for his second appearance of the season.

[tricky_colour]

Wrong end of the championship though but safe.

[SkStu]

What about the opposition Irish?

[DeLorean]

How did you even know about this thread TOWK? Impressive use of the search facility.

[Closed Account]

Liam Kelly V Ryan Manning this evening. Some other players involved.

[Yard of Pace]

Not a bad night as O Toole scores and so does Noel Hunt twice and Jay Tabb and Andy Keogh.

Always liked Jay Tabb. Seemed a nice lad and a tidy player. If he was playing now I daresay he'd be a squad regular.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jun/21/jay-tabb-footballer-horses-racing-cheltenham-festival