Here's some big names who played in the LOI [Archive]

CollegeTillIDie

19/03/2006, 9:35 AM

Gordon Banks ( St. Patrick's Athletic)
England World Cup Winning goalkeeper in 1966

Terry McDermott (Cork City)
Former Liverpool European Cup winner and England international played for Cork City in their debut season of LOI membership 1984/85.

Bobby Charlton (Waterford)
Former ManUre and England World Cup winning great from 1966.

George Best (Cork Celtic)
Probably the best player ever to emerge from either part of Ireland.

Jimmy Johnstone ( Shelbourne)
Former Celtic and Scotland great recently deceased

Uwe Seeler (Cork Celtic)
German forward who played for West Germany in the 1966 World Cup Final

John "Dixie" Deans ( Shelbourne)
Played for the last few years of the 9-in-a-row Celtic Scottish League winners.

Feel free to add some more

hoopy

19/03/2006, 9:51 AM

Pat Byrne, Liam Buckley, Alan Campbell, John Coady, Peter Eccles.......:D

Gareth

19/03/2006, 11:28 AM

Ian Rush (one game for Shels :))

Some socttish lad played for Home Farm for 45 minutes. Archibald?

pineapple stu

19/03/2006, 11:49 AM

Steve, I think.

Student Mullet

19/03/2006, 12:04 PM

Efan Ekoku

DmanDmythDledge

19/03/2006, 12:20 PM

I'm not trying to complain but is it any big deal that a few big name players were paid high amounts just to feature in the odd game or two. I know that this helped increase crowds, but did it help achieve anything in the long run. I think we would be better off focusing on the players that have made a success of their careers after using the Eircom League as a springboard to launch their career.

Dodge

19/03/2006, 12:28 PM

Friendlies don't count Gareth

pineapple stu

19/03/2006, 12:29 PM

Jimmy-Lee Billy-Bob Matthews Maher at UCD is a fairly big name.

CollegeTillIDie

19/03/2006, 12:36 PM

Mr A

19/03/2006, 12:45 PM

Paul McGrath played for Pats.....

dcfcsteve

19/03/2006, 12:45 PM

Can't believe you've missed the obvious Roy Keane and Paul McGrath !

There's 2 broad categories of 'big name' who've played in the LOI. Sadly most are in the first, which is the journey-men players at the twilight stages of their career. Brazilian legend Socrates played a few games for Garforth town in the English tiddly-winks non-league division earlier this season. That doesn't mean a thing. Garforth, and the division they play in, are both still very weak.

The second broad category is local boys who are starting out in their careers. The overseas scouting systems will always miss out on the occassional good talent, and unless they leave football all together they'll naturally end up in the EL ate some point early in their career. McGrath and Keano are 2 classic examples of this. Kevin Doyle could prove to be another one. This group bring much more credibility to our league than the ageing seniors looking for their last pieces of gold before their legs finally give-in on them. People love the whole bragging rights of 'oh I remember watching Roy Keane when he was playing for Cobh at 18yrs old. I could tell then he'd go on to be something special'. Sadly though, very few additional people would be atracted to our game in the hope of 'unearthing' tomorrow's big talents.

DmanDmythDledge

19/03/2006, 12:46 PM

Well if you want to try to attract barstoolers to the League, there's no reason why that cannot be incorporated into this thread. So get the ball rolling then... :D
First of all CTID I don't even know what you said means. The point I was trying to make was that the Eircom League has plenty of good players that can make a success of themselves in England, or other leagues. I noticed Efan Ekoku's name was mentioned. I don't see how he could be considered a better player than Jason Byrne, Kevin Doyle, even Eamon Zayed maybe. Hopefully in 15/20 years time, we will be mentioning names such as O'Callaghan, Doyle, Byrne, Hoolahan etc as been the best players to have played in the league, rather than big-time charlies who were looking for one last pay cheque.

Edit: Well they weren't all big-time charlies, but you get my point.

sligoman

19/03/2006, 12:49 PM

Gareth Farelly played/plays for Bohs:D.

dancinpants

19/03/2006, 3:56 PM

Luther Blissett ex-Watford and AC Milan (Derry City)

sniffa

19/03/2006, 4:29 PM

Bobby Tambling ...... ( Chelsea & England). He played for Cork. I seem to remember it was Cork Celtic.

sligoman

19/03/2006, 4:34 PM

Former Irish internationals, Curtis Fleming and David Kelly played for Shels and Derry respectively.

TonyD

19/03/2006, 6:04 PM

Former Irish internationals, Curtis Fleming and David Kelly played for Shels and Derry respectively.

Curtis Fleming fits into both categories mentioned above, as he started his career at Pats.

daniel

19/03/2006, 6:35 PM

David Kelly (Derry City)

Student Mullet

19/03/2006, 7:38 PM

Brazilian legend Socrates played a few games for Garforth town in the English tiddly-winks non-league division earlier this season.Glad we didn't sign him so.

dancinpants

19/03/2006, 8:00 PM

Alan Sunderland ex-Arsenal (Derry City)

hamish

19/03/2006, 8:27 PM

Denis Tuert - Derry City
Trevor Hockey (ex-Newcastle United) - Athlone Town
I saw Trevor's one and omly game with Town. He was near the end of his career and, during the game, made a run from the box to near the opposition's box to slide into the dirtiest tsckle I've ever seen, whacking the legs from under the opposing player on the ball - ouch. Can't remember the opposition that day, Think he went to the US or Australia after that.
Sadly, Trevor died a number of years ago.

sligoman

19/03/2006, 8:37 PM

Paul "Ski" McGee-Ex QPR, Sligo Rovers, Galway and Harps
David Kelly (Derry City)Eh? Did ya miss this:
Former Irish internationals, Curtis Fleming and David Kelly played for Shels and Derry respectively.:rolleyes:.

robbieos88

19/03/2006, 9:38 PM

Charles Mbabazi Livingstone ex Ugandan Captain (St. Pat's)

pineapple stu

19/03/2006, 10:05 PM

Leeds United's record goalscorer Peter Lorimer played for UCD, as did Kevin Moran (though before we were in the league).

In a less glamorous link, Ryan Tubridy's grandfather (CS Andrews) also played for us, as did Brian Lenihan and...Ollie Byrne...:o

sfc red

19/03/2006, 10:40 PM

Neil Trebble

hamish

19/03/2006, 11:27 PM

Leeds United's record goalscorer Peter Lorimer played for UCD,

What was he?
A mature student??:p :D

redrov2005

20/03/2006, 1:14 AM

Carlton Palmer:D

Krstic

20/03/2006, 9:53 AM

Neill McNabb-(Man City-Spurs) Derry City.
Steve Williams (Arsenal) Derry City

daniel

20/03/2006, 10:33 AM

Looks like i did miss it rite nuff sligoman

Dick Long

20/03/2006, 10:37 AM

Bobby Charlton was signed for Waterford by another Man Utd European Cup winner SHAY BRENNAN who was Player/Manager at the time (managed two of the Blues League title wins). Another of their 1968 team-mates - DAVID HERD also played with the Blues in 1970.

CON MARTIN played for Waterford in the 1950s after a successful career with Aston Villa. He played for both Ireland (30 times) and Norhtern Ireland (6) and was also part of the Ireland team which inflicted England's first defeat on home soil at Goodison Park in 1949.

Another possibility for Waterford might be EDDIE McILVENNEY who played with and captained the club for several years. Though Scottish born he captained the USA team which famously defeated England 1-0 at the 1950 World Cup which was regarded as one of the biggest upsets in the history of football at the time.

BOBBY TAMBLING who played for Cork Celtic's League winning team in 1973 is still Chelsea's all-time aggregate League goalscorer.

TREVOR BROOKING turned out for Cork City a few times in the mid-80's.

The Sheliban

20/03/2006, 10:41 AM

Tony Dunne (Shels)
Went on to play for some outfit offshore.

Patrick Dunne

20/03/2006, 10:47 AM

Frank Worthington (Galway United)

Strabane_Harp

20/03/2006, 10:50 AM

John Beresford ( Newcastle United and England Left back) spend a year at Finn Harps before making the big time

harpskid

20/03/2006, 11:32 AM

Mark Kelly who was capped a handful of times for the Republic of Ireland in the early 1990s played for Harps in 2000/01.

harpskid

20/03/2006, 11:33 AM

Paul Simpson, of Carlisle fame, was also on Harps books for a spell in the 80s.

dancinpants

20/03/2006, 6:03 PM

I could have swore that Terry Venables played for some LOI team and maybe even Jimmy Greaves. Can't find evidence any where, so I'm probably wrong.

Schumi

20/03/2006, 6:11 PM

Did Venebles play for Pats? I might be mixing him up with someone else though.

robbieos88

20/03/2006, 6:37 PM

Venables played one game for pats

corkharps

20/03/2006, 10:05 PM

Glad we didn't sign him so.

Did Socrates not study medicine at UCD? Could be away off the mark,but i definately heard it before!
:eek:

pineapple stu

20/03/2006, 10:11 PM

Urban legend, apparently. The UCD programme researched this a couple of years ago - one of the lads actually got in touch with Socrates through a website - and Socrates said he'd never been in Ireland.

Wiseguy

21/03/2006, 9:25 AM

Dave Savage ( Rep. of Ireland and Millwall ) played for the Town
Moses also played a friendly for us and everyone has heard of him.

floatinghoop

22/03/2006, 8:08 AM

Peter Farrell played for Shamrock Rovers before going on to captain Everton for many years. He also played (and scored) in the famous victory over England at Goodison Park.

Also, while I understand that familiarity can breed contempt, it would be churlish for no-one to mention Johnny Giles in a thread like this.

gustavo

22/03/2006, 9:35 AM

so to be considered a big name all you have to do is have played here and then at some point played in the UK?

fbtn

22/03/2006, 9:54 AM

David Fairclough, the ginger "Super Sub" that scored a lot of important late goals for Liverpool in their European Cup wins, most famously against Saint Etienne in 1977 and Mike Channon, the ex-Southampton legend and now successul horsey man both played for the Harps in the 80s.

They were both pure and utter cack.

Brendan Bradley, the king of League of Ireland football also had a spell with us :D

Anyone remember the talk about Dundalk signing ex-Rangers keeper Andy Goram a few seasons back? What a wind-up that had to be!

seand

24/03/2006, 8:10 AM

Peter McParland (5 goals in the 1958 World Cup finals!) Dundalk.
Jackie Carey (Rovers) captained ManU in 40s/50s including 1948 FA Cup win.
Steve Staunton was with Dundalk but never played for the first team.
Mick Martin played for Bohs
Alan Kelly, Drums
Ray Treacy ,Rovers

Little known fact... Oliver St John Gogarty played for Bohs!

Royal rover

24/03/2006, 8:42 AM

[QUOTE=dmandmythdledge]First of all CTID I don't even know what you said means. The point I was trying to make was that the Eircom League has plenty of good players that can make a success of themselves in England, or other leagues. I noticed Efan Ekoku's name was mentioned. I don't see how he could be considered a better player than Jason Byrne, Kevin Doyle, even Eamon Zayed maybe. Hopefully in 15/20 years time, we will be mentioning names such as O'Callaghan, Doyle, Byrne, Hoolahan etc as been the best players to have played in the league!

Yes youare correct in saying that the EL has got some great players but
Efan Ekoku is far was a far superior player than Eamon Zayed and Jason Byrne will ever be, with the exception of Doyle the others you have mentioned will never be good enough to play in any top divisions , consider international caps plus 8-10 years of premiership experience, then consider Zayed at Bray, and Byrne at Shelbourne- need i say anymore,

Juz the Hoop

24/03/2006, 2:43 PM

Paddy Mulligan (won a ECWC cup medal with Chelsea in 1971) for Rovers,
Pat Dunne (Won a league medal with Manchester United in 1965) for Rovers,
Liam Touhy
and perhaps the greatest

FRANK O NEILL

KOH

JUZ

drummerboy

24/03/2006, 3:35 PM

Barry Bridges (ex Chelsea and Millwall) played for Pats
Dunphy played for Rovers
2 rugby internationals played for Shels in the 70s, Barry mcGann and Paul McNaughton
Mate of mine's father used to manage Shels and he signed Jimmy Johnstone, who lodged with him. Unfortunately every time Jimmy's wife rang from Scotland looking for her man, he was off down in Leeson Street and she eventually ordered him home to Glasgow.