Retired Players Thread

[tetsujin1979]

great interview with Niall Quinn on NewsTalk last night: https://cdn.radiocms.net/media/001/audio/000029/188662_media_player_audio_file.mp3

[tetsujin1979]

How Ronnie Whelan became the most underrated Liverpool star of all: http://thesefootballtimes.co/2017/04/26/how-ronnie-whelan-became-the-most-underrated-liverpool-star-of-all/

[DeLorean]

Interesting read, especially for somebody a bit too young to have seen Whelan was in his prime. Worthy of his own thread maybe, where that article can be revisited and future discussions accommodated.

[tetsujin1979]

Don't think there would be much discussion on Whelan - might group the players into a retired players thread?

[DeLorean]

That'd be better alright, yeah.

[tetsujin1979]

Jason McAteer on Off The Ball last night: https://cdn.radiocms.net/media/001/audio/000030/191031_media_player_audio_file326.mp3
Good listen, few of the same stories as Niall Quinn a few weeks ago

[DeLorean]

Retired Players Thread, surely? :)

Read about the Souness story while ago, seemed a bit cringey. The Niall Quinn interview was great.

[BonnieShels]

I though McAteer on OTB the other night was brilliant. Thought the Souness story was good too hgow it was resolved in the end. Jay is a great one for regaling. Maybe that could be added to the Stutts test as a way to confirm their true allegiances?

[tetsujin1979]

Richie Sadlier had an excellent interview with Niall Quinn on Friday's Second Captains

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Interesting interview with Alan Maybury.

http://www.the42.ie/alan-maybury-interview-3399602-May2017/

He confirms that he never actually supported Rangers, but was verbally abused by bigots for wearing Rangers gear supplied to him by the club after going on trial.


“After that experience, it’s a club you start to look out for, but I wouldn’t say I supported Rangers.”

Maybury says the decision to pick Leeds over a Rangers side that went on to dominate Scottish football in the 1990s was purely motivated by footballing reasons, but he acknowledges a move to Ibrox would have brought undue scrutiny and increased attention on his burgeoning career after already sampling the negative reaction on his return to Dublin.

“Going home, Rangers gave me a bag full of kit. I had no issue wearing it back in Dublin and having it on going to training.

“In my last season before going to England, I was with St Kevin’s and you used to just wear your own kit going to training. I may have been going to training in a Rangers jumper or whatever and some people didn’t like that.

“It certainly wasn’t inside the club because these schoolboy teams want their players to do well, regardless of where they go, but people on the outside would give you abuse or say you’re a disgrace.

“I’m quite thick-skinned, it didn’t really bother me. You can’t please everyone.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

BUMP.

Steven Reid rejected Sligo: https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2017/0419/868584-steven-reid-sligo-rovers/
Reveals McShane heartbreak: http://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/sport/15288488.READING_FC__Steven_Reid_reveals_Paul_McSh ane_is__utterly_devastated__to_be_missing_out_toni ght/

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Interview with Clive Clarke.

http://www.the42.ie/clive-clarke-irish-footballer-interview-agent-3409021-May2017/

[DeLorean]

The42.ie do some great articles in fairness. Here's an interesting interview with former Ireland international John Devine about his playing career and subsequent coaching and scouting roles, including his current job in the USA where he works closely with Bayern Munich. - http://www.the42.ie/john-devine-interview-arsenal-man-united-3411411-May2017/

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

How Eoin Hand got the Ireland job at the expense of Paddy Mulligan.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/may/20/seven-deadly-sins-football-gluttony-part-four

One for the GUBU file.

[geysir]

The story according to Paddy Mulligan, the "ace" manager who didn't get the plum Irish job.
What did he achieve instead?

[DeLorean]

Given, Duff & Robbie Keane all in the All-Stars squad for Michael Carrick's testimonial on Sunday (Live on ITV & MUTV @ 14:30).

https://twitter.com/carras16/status/869905197010751489

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBKGKQcXkAIz-af.jpg

[DeLorean]

Quiz: Name the ten Republic of Ireland players who have won the European Cup/Champions League. - http://www.punditarena.com/football/jmurphy/quiz-can-name-ten-irish-players-won-champions-league/

I got a measly 8/11. (Should have been ten really, totally hadn't heard of one though).

[tetsujin1979]

10/11 Probably missed the same one you'd never heard of

[DeLorean]

For the life of me I couldn't think of one of their names and for another I had the wrong first name (possibly getting mixed up with a Tipperary hurler!).

[Closed Account]

For the life of me I couldn't think of one of their names and for another I had the wrong first name (possibly getting mixed up with a Tipperary hurler!).
Sure ya only needed surnames ya gowl, 11/11.

[DeLorean]

In that case I'm upgrading my score to 9/11. :o

[geysir]

I got 10 and never would have remembered the one I missed.
But I hadn't opened up the page on pundit area which revealed that 3 players (unnamed) won a medal at the same final.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Interview with Alan Kelly.

http://www.the42.ie/alan-kelly-interview-3418560-Jun2017/

[tetsujin1979]

Interview with Gareth Farrelly on moving from footballer to solicitor: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/profiles/blue-collar-gareth-farrelly/5062981.article

[tetsujin1979]

Alan Kelly appointed goalkeeping coach at Everton while Unsworth is in charge: https://twitter.com/Everton/status/922805684374208512

DU confirms Ebbrell, Royle & Ferguson will join him in the dugout. He adds he's brought in GK coach Alan Kelly. Jeffers takes U21s tonight.

[Fergie's Son]

Nothing substantive to add other than to say that this is an enjoyable thread.

[tetsujin1979]

Houghton's goal against England nominated for Ireland's greatest sporting moment: https://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/irelands-greatest-sporting-moment-extras-30004941/10800930/

[DeLorean]

Of course, Stutts was born.

[backstothewall]

Quiz: Name the ten Republic of Ireland players who have won the European Cup/Champions League. - http://www.punditarena.com/football/jmurphy/quiz-can-name-ten-irish-players-won-champions-league/

I got a measly 8/11. (Should have been ten really, totally hadn't heard of one though).

8/11 here as well. Probably the same 8.

[Fixer82]

11/11 with 3.30 left on the clock. Boom!

[Fixer82]

Although one was a bit braindead. It wouldn’t accept my answer until I wrote it without the apostrophe. A sad indictment of the current text era and its plummeting literacy levels

[DeLorean]

8/11 here as well.

Excuse me, I was upgraded to 9/11 on appeal. :o

[Lionel Ritchie]

Excrutiating interview with Paul McGrath on Marian Finucane right now. She's scarcely even asking him questions. More like making nonsensical statements and expecting him to comment upon them.

[tetsujin1979]

Chris Hughton won the Premier League Manager of the Month for February: https://www.premierleague.com/news/637610

[tetsujin1979]

Vote for Chris Hughton as Premier League manager of the season here https://barclaysfootball.fbapp.io/barclaysmotmnov-dup-dup-dup-2278073-2282036

[tetsujin1979]

The curious case of James O'Connor: http://www.thepridecincy.com/blog/2018/5/21/the-curious-case-of-james-oconnor
Might be a managerial career to watch

[OwlsFan]

The curious case of James O'Connor: http://www.thepridecincy.com/blog/2018/5/21/the-curious-case-of-james-oconnor
Might be a managerial career to watch

I liked James O'Connor - heart on sleeve type of player. If he was playing now he'd probably get a few caps. Interesting that he currently holds the highest coaching license you can have from UEFA and even more interesting that the writer thinks that US football fans have heard of Sheffield Wednesday! It would be great to see him climb the ladder in the coaching world but for the moment I am now a Louisville fan - that's the kiss of death for them.

[DeLorean]

even more interesting that the writer thinks that US football fans have heard of Sheffield Wednesday!

John Harkes put ye on the map :)

[OwlsFan]

Best of luck to Tony Cascarino who has a brain tumour https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6452793/chelsea-ireland-tony-cascarino-brain-tumour/

[geysir]

That's dreadful news, at the very best he'll recover to some extent after a long ordeal. But there are good reasons to be positive that he can recover. A benign tumour in a footballer whose main attribute was getting his head to the ball, sounds like there could be a connection?

[tetsujin1979]

Possibly, but correlation does not imply causation. People get tumours without ever having played football.

[geysir]

Possibly, but correlation does not imply causation. People get tumours without ever having played football.
There is no single causation factor for a benign tumour which fits everybody. There are no absolute causation factors and I'm not looking for an absolute proof of a single causation here.

Just because non sporting people get benign tumours without having played sports, does not lessen the value of considered opinion and supporting evidence that people who have played sports where repeated blows to the head and/or concussion are experienced, have an increased susceptibility factor for brain degeneration to develop later on in life, whatever form that degeneration eventually takes. As Cas states, he feels he left it too long to get his brain examined. I guess here, that he had experienced some symptoms but ignored them. Whether the blows to the head was his main causation factor or not, is not of great relevance to Cas right now but his sports career put him in a risk category which by default should be actively encouraged (by footballers' union?) to undergo regular check ups.

[tetsujin1979]

Long interview with Maurice O'Driscoll on the42.ie today: http://www.the42.ie/maurice-odriscoll-interview-league-of-ireland-legends-4054933-Jun2018/
I didn't know he's Aaron O'Driscoll's dad, there's a mention of his progress he's made at Southampton at the end

[OwlsFan]

Only discovered over the weekend this retro football magazine called backpass http://www.backpassmagazine.co.uk/ Primarily deals with the UK but in the latest issue there is an interview with Alan McLoughlin.

2691

[DeLorean]

I still haven't finished Alan McLoughlin's book. Three chapters left I think for the past God knows how long. I've even read other books in that time frame which probably isn't a great sign of it.

I do remember finding some parts interesting enough, particular some Swindon stuff that happened just before I developed an interest in football, when they were promoted but not promoted, after he scored the winner in a playoff at Wembley.

The only other bits I remember was that he was Man Utd fan despite growing up across the street from Maine Road and that he seemed a bit whooped by his wife.

And obviously Windsor Park & his cancer scare/battle featured heavily.

His Wembley goal is here at 4:30-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gobMS5_6OGE

[OwlsFan]

There were all kinds of payment irregularities going on in Swindon at the time I think.

[irishfan86]

The curious case of James O'Connor: http://www.thepridecincy.com/blog/2018/5/21/the-curious-case-of-james-oconnor
Might be a managerial career to watch

O’Connor set to make his MLS coaching/managerial debut on Saturday at the helm of Orlando City SC. The Dubliner was a bit of a journeyman who played plenty of matches in England’s 2nd and 3rd tiers before wrapping up his career in the U.S. — most recently managing Louisville City to a USL (U.S. 2nd tier) playoff championship win last season.

Good luck to him. Orlando has the resources to spend big by MLS standards (they had Kaka for a couple of seasons), so he will be given the tools to succeed although he likely won’t be given a lot of time to deliver results so will need to start strong.

[samhaydenjr]

O’Connor set to make his MLS coaching/managerial debut on Saturday at the helm of Orlando City SC. The Dubliner was a bit of a journeyman who played plenty of matches in England’s 2nd and 3rd tiers before wrapping up his career in the U.S. — most recently managing Louisville City to a USL (U.S. 2nd tier) playoff championship win last season.

Good luck to him. Orlando has the resources to spend big by MLS standards (they had Kaka for a couple of seasons), so he will be given the tools to succeed although he likely won’t be given a lot of time to deliver results so will need to start strong.

That's an interesting development - a good run with Orlando might make him a potential option for us in the Post-Monkeano world. The FC Cincy blog praises his ability to squeeze the most out of limited talent, which would certainly be helpful. On a related note, still-Irish-qualified Shane O'Neill, whose career seemed to stall in Europe, has just signed for Orlando

[RiffRaff]

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/international-soccer/former-republic-of-ireland-international-ronald-healey-dies-while-out-cycling-37037775.html

Just saw this sad news about Ron Healey, a regular squad member back in the 70's when you only had to be on the books of an English club to get one of the goalkeeping spots. Only played a couple of times for us and I don't think he was ever a regular with Cardiff in the old second division

[Stuttgart88]

I remember his game at Wembley as I'm sure OwlsFan and Geysir and a few others will too. That's sad alright. I actually buy stuff from Just4keepers for my son. RIP.