Irish Players Abroad 06/07

Taken from the Indo
Elsewhere, Director of the Wolves academy Chris Evans says there is great excitement in Molineux about the prospects of Irish teenager Stephen Gleeson.

The Dubliner made his first team debut for Mick McCarthy's side as a late sub in Monday's 3-1 win over Hull.

And after making a big impression at Stockport while on loan earlier in the campaign, Evans is tipping the playmaker for big things.

"He is someone who is talked about as playing at a very high level and he does have great ability and a good attitude to match it," said Evans.

Gleeson was so popular during his time at Stockport that the club's supporters made the last day of his loan period "Stephen Gleeson Day" to mark his contribution to their charge for promotion from League Two under ex-Dundalk manager Jim Gannon.

Former Ireland underage cap Rob Kelly has been sacked as Leicester manager.

http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...09503,00.html?

Garry Breen is the Academy Player of the Month at Manchester City

David Connolly is 3rd in the voting for Sunderland's player of the season, no other Irishman is in the top 6 (a bit surprising considering how many there are). Stokes was up for young player of the season but is not in the top 3.

There's a clip to Cillian Sheridan's goal against Aberdeen reserves on the Celtic website:
http://www.celticfc.net

Just scroll down to Desktop highlights, click on his name and click play. What a goal.

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There's a clip to Cillian Sheridan's goal against Aberdeen reserves on the Celtic website:
http://www.celticfc.net

Just scroll down to Desktop highlights, click on his name and click play. What a goal.

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nice goal for a big man, or big kid I guess

Andy Jackson on the bench for St Johnstone today against Celtic in the Scottish FA Cup. McGeady starting on the left for Celtic, O'Dea on the bench

Stephen Hunt has scored for Reading
Martin Rowlands scored with a penalty for QPR
Steven O'Leary scored for Luton
Marc Wilson scored for Bournemouth
David McGoldrick scored for Bournemouth
Lee Trundle scored for Swansea
Wes Hoolahan scored with a penalty for Blackpool
Alan Dunne scored 2 for Millwall
Connolly had an assist on Whitehead's goal
Keogh had an assist on Bothroyd's 2nd Goal

Irish Abroad for 14 April 2007
English Premier
Arsenal 2-1 Bolton
No Irish players.

Man City 0-0 Liverpool
Man City's Irish Players: Richard Dunne, Stephen Ireland[introduced on 62]
Liverpool's Irish Players: Steve Finnan
Irish bookings: Steve Finnan

Middlesbro 1-3 Aston Villa
No Irish players.

Portsmouth 2-1 Newcastle
Newcastle's Irish Players: Stephen Carr, Damien Duff[substituted on 81]

Reading 1-0 Fulham
Reading's Irish Players: Stephen Hunt, Shane Long[introduced on 70], Kevin Doyle
Irish goalscorers: Stephen Hunt[15]
Irish bookings: Stephen Hunt

Sheff Utd 3-0 West Ham
Sheff Utd's Irish Players: Paddy Kenny, Derek Geary, Alan Quinn[introduced on 61]

I'm not 100% if Luton's Stephen O'Leary is Irish, can someone confirm this?
Football League Championship
Birmingham 2-1 Southampton
Birmingham's Irish Players: Colin Doyle, Stephen Kelly
Southampton's Irish Players: Leon Best

C Palace 2-2 Wolves
C Palace's Irish Players: Clinton Morrison
C Palace's unused Irish substitutes: Mark Kennedy
Wolves's Irish Players: Gary Breen, Darren Potter, Andy Keogh
Wolves's unused Irish substitutes: Stephen Ward, Stephen Gleeson

Cardiff 1-1 Stoke
Cardiff's Irish Players: David Forde, Stephen McPhail
Cardiff's unused Irish substitutes: Willo Flood
Stoke's Irish Players: Liam Lawrence

Coventry 0-4 Preston
Coventry's Irish Players: Jay Tabb
Preston's Irish Players: Wayne Henderson, Sean St Ledger

Hull City 1-1 Colchester
Hull City's Irish Players: Damien Delaney

Ipswich 2-1 Derby
Ipswich's Irish Players: Shane Supple, Alex Bruce, Owen Garvan, Jonathan Walters
Ipswich's unused Irish substitutes: Alan Lee, George O'Callaghan
Irish sendings off: Alex Bruce

Leeds 1-0 Burnley
Leeds's unused Irish substitutes: Graham Stack
Burnley's Irish Players: James O'Connor
Burnley's unused Irish substitutes: Graham Coughlan, Chris McCann

Leicester 1-2 Norwich
Leicester's Irish Players: Conrad Logan
Norwich's Irish Players: Michael Spillane

Luton 1-2 Plymouth
Luton's Irish Players: Kevin Foley, Lewis Emanuel, Keith Keane, David Bell, Stephen O'Leary[introduced on 46]
Irish goalscorers: Stephen O'Leary[51]

Southend 1-3 Barnsley
Southend's Irish Players: Alan McCormack, Kevin Maher, Richie Foran
Barnsley's Irish Players: Nicky Colgan, Martin Devaney

Sunderland 2-1 QPR
Sunderland's Irish Players: David Connolly, Daryl Murphy
Sunderland's unused Irish substitutes: Anthony Stokes, Stephen Elliott
QPR's Irish Players: Martin Rowlands
Irish goalscorers: Martin Rowlands[23, p]

Football League One
Blackpool 4-1 Northampton
Blackpool's Irish Players: Wes Hoolahan
Irish goalscorers: Wes Hoolahan[55, p]

Bournemouth 2-2 Swansea
Bournemouth's Irish Players: Marc Wilson, David McGoldrick
Swansea's Irish Players: Marcos Painter, Thomas Butler, Lee Trundle
Irish goalscorers: Marc Wilson[22], David McGoldrick[60], Lee Trundle[88]

Brentford 2-4 Nottm Forest
Brentford's Irish Players: Kevin O'Connor

Brighton 0-1 Bradford
No Irish players.

Bristol C 2-0 Yeovil
Bristol C's unused Irish substitutes: Richard Keogh
Yeovil's unused Irish substitutes: Adam Rooney

Chesterfield 0-1 Gillingham
Chesterfield's unused Irish substitutes: Alan O'Hare

Leyton Orient 1-1 Doncaster
Doncaster's Irish Players: James O'Connor, Sean Thornton

Millwall 2-2 Tranmere
Millwall's Irish Players: Alan Dunne
Tranmere's Irish Players: John Thompson
Irish goalscorers: Alan Dunne[49], Alan Dunne[67]

Oldham 0-2 Cheltenham
Cheltenham's Irish Players: JJ Melligan

Port Vale 3-0 Crewe
Crewe's Irish Players: Michael O'Connor

Rotherham 0-1 Carlisle
Rotherham's Irish Players: David Worrell
Rotherham's unused Irish substitutes: Michael Keane
Carlisle's Irish Players: Peter Murphy

S****horpe 2-0 Huddersfield
S****horpe's Irish Players: Joe Murphy, Cliff Byrne, Jim Goodwin
Huddersfield's Irish Players: Michael Collins, John McAliskey

Football League Two
Accrington 4-1 Grimsby
Accrington's Irish Players: Robbie Williams
Accrington's unused Irish substitutes: Michael Welch

Barnet 1-1 Bristol R
Barnet's Irish Players: Barry Cogan

Bury 0-1 Swindon
Bury's unused Irish substitutes: John Fitzgerald
Swindon's Irish Players: Barry Corr
Swindon's unused Irish substitutes: Michael Timlin

Hereford 3-0 Boston Utd
Boston Utd's Irish Players: Colin Cryan

Lincoln 0-3 Wrexham
No Irish players.

Macclesfield 2-0 Stockport
No Irish players.

Mansfield 1-2 Rochdale
Mansfield's Irish Players: Stephen Dawson, Barry Conlon

Milton Keynes 1-0 Darlington
Milton Keynes's unused Irish substitutes: Jonathan Hayes
Darlington's Irish Players: Michael Cummins

Notts Co 1-2 Walsall
Walsall's Irish Players: Anthony Gerrard[substituted on 46]

Torquay 1-1 Peterborough
Peterborough's Irish Players: Peter Gain

Wycombe 0-1 Hartlepool
Hartlepool's Irish Players: Willie Boland

Scottish FA Cup
St Johnstone 1-2 Celtic
St Johnstone's unused Irish substitutes: Andy Jackson
Celtic's Irish Players: Aiden McGeady

At half time in the Man City - Liverpool game, Ireland U-16 player Greg Cunningham of Mervue United was introduced to the crowd. According to the commentator on RTE, he recently signed for the Academy side.

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At half time in the Man City - Liverpool game, Ireland U-16 player Greg Cunningham of Mervue United was introduced to the crowd. According to the commentator on RTE, he recently signed for the Academy side.

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Excellent! He's the new Terry Dixon, call him immediately

Keano scored 2 (one penalty) and Kilbane scored in a 3-3 draw this morning

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Keano scored 2 (one penalty) and Kilbane scored in a 3-3 draw this morning

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Excellent goal by Keane too. Typical that he's hitting one of his purple patches when Ireland's next competitive game is 5 months away. Expect him to have his usual slow start to the season when we will need him most.

Irish Abroad For 15 April 2007

English Premier
Everton 2-1 Charlton
Everton's Irish Players: Lee Carsley
Charlton's Irish Players: Matt Holland[introduced on 55]
Charlton's unused Irish substitutes: Darren Randolph

Wigan 3-3 Tottenham
Wigan's Irish Players: Kevin Kilbane, Caleb Folan[introduced on 66]
Tottenham's Irish Players: Robbie Keane
Irish goalscorers: Kevin Kilbane[60], Robbie Keane[35, p], Robbie Keane[68]

Football League Two
Chester 0-0 Shrewsbury
Chester's unused Irish substitutes: Glen Cronin

English FA Cup
Blackburn 1-2 Chelsea
No Irish players.

Scottish FA Cup
Hibernian 0-0 Dunfermline
Dunfermline's Irish Players: Jim O'Brien
Irish bookings: Jim O'Brien

leicester v norwich 1-2.

Logan was recalled for this one, with both other keepers fit and available as the new manager made some surprising changes to the 16, another one being the dropping of Maybury completely, who had actually done ok in recent games, as had Henderson, who Logan replaced. Yeates remains outside the frame.

Logan did fine on his return, was beaten by an Earnshaw penalty and an own goal from one of his CB's from a corner, he took all crosses well, and some under pressure but he handled them cleanly and at the first attempt. He also kicked well, with good distance, he did tend to overcook kicks onto the right chanel as he looked at it, putting too much on them and 3 or 4 carried right through to his opposite number, but on one occasion he took a back pass on the right hand side of his area, took a touch and kicked superbly right accross the field and onto the chest of his left winger, this was enough to draw widespread applause from a home crowd who arent in a very forgiving mood at present.

He made half a dozen or so stops in the game, including one for the cameras from a shot from distance, which he flew through the air for, as it headed for the top corner and which he palmed behind for a corner, he came twice and didnt claim in the whole game, once rushing out on Huckerby whose lob landed on the roof of the net and once when his defender panicked and kicked it blind downfield and left Logan chasing back to his unprotected net, luckily he wasnt punished on either occasion.

It will be interesting to see of he holds the spot for tuesdays visit of birmingham and for the remainder of the season.

For Norwich, no Doherty but Michael Spillane played in midfield, it was my first chance to have a look at this player, i had thought he was a CB but soccerbase and norwich OS have him down as a midfielder but the OS also says he plays equally well at the back.

He is a tall, rangey and athletic looking player, he wore a cast on his left arm from halfway along his arm to his knuckles and may have gotten his chance through a big injury problem at his club at present. He played the holding position.He took 6 minutes to touch the ball and even then it was just to show for it from a throw and give it straight back to the thrower, but on 9 mins he came off the keeper at a corner and filcked on accross the face of goal brilliantly.

He was good in the air, but usually in an offensive role from corners or from half-cleared throws, when he often headed well from his position outside the area back into the box, but if time allowed i noticed he was happy to bring it down and pick nice passes from these situations also, and had the ability to do so off either foot. He is a constrictive player in posession, looking for and generally finding passes which keep his side in posession and on the front foot when high up the park.

What he didnt do nearly enough of was the basic holding play, taking basic passes from fullbacks or midfielders and finding 10/15 yard balls to keep his side on the ball, he actually only attempted this twice in the match, and on the latter of these occasions, he gave it away cheaply on the edge of his area and was immediately subbed, i dont know if this was connected or not.

He had one goalbound effort blocked and produced one lovely raking diagonal ball over the opposing fullback which put his winger in and his side had a penalty appeal turned down as a result of this.He as subbed with 20 to play, after which his side scored 2 to win the game.

I liked the look of this player, very constructive on the ball, good in the air, made a few well timed tackles,etc, but didnt do enough basic stuff to play the deep middle role yesterday. My pennies are on him ending up as a footballing CB.

here he is: http://www.canaries.premiumtv.co.uk/...~36101,00.html

Colin Doyle, David Forde, Wayne Henderson, Shane Supple, Graham Stack, Conrad Logan & Nicky Colgan.

7 Irish goalies playing first team football in The Championship on the same day.

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Leeds 1-0 Burnley
Leeds's unused Irish substitutes: Graham Stack

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Colin Doyle, David Forde, Wayne Henderson, Shane Supple, Graham Stack, Conrad Logan & Nicky Colgan.

7 Irish goalies playing first team football in The Championship on the same day.

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Stack didn't make it off the bench, but it's impressive nonetheless.

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Southampton's Irish Players: Leon Best
C Palace's Irish Players: Clinton Morrison
Wolves's Irish Players: Andy Keogh
Wolves's unused Irish substitutes: Stephen Ward
Ipswich's Irish Players: Jonathan Walters
Ipswich's unused Irish substitutes: Alan Lee
Southend's Irish Players: Richie Foran
Sunderland's Irish Players: David Connolly, Daryl Murphy
Sunderland's unused Irish substitutes: Anthony Stokes, Stephen Elliott

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That's 11 Strikers, only two uncapped at international level, all involved in the first team picture in the Championship last weekend. Unfortunately there wasn't one goal between them, although Connolly and Keogh both had assists

http://www.safc.com/news/?page_id=12201
These are all the ways Sunderland are automatically promoted this week

New leicester manager Nigel Worthington seems to think Paddy McCarthy has a shot at making his return from the shoulder injury before the seasons end, good to see the new manager picking him out so early in his time here.

http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...011812,00.html

Karl Moore started for Man City reserves, and Garry Breen was an unused sub in their 1-0 win over a Blackburn Rovers side including Irish underage internationals Keith Treacy and Alan Judge. Moore was substituted on 74 minutes.

Blackburn Rovers review: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/pa....html?ptvParm=
Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...&newsid=419884

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Karl Moore started for Man City reserves, and Garry Breen was an unused sub in their 1-0 win over a Blackburn Rovers side including Irish underage internationals Keith Treacy and Alan Judge. Moore was substituted on 74 minutes.

Blackburn Rovers review: http://www.rovers.premiumtv.co.uk/pa....html?ptvParm=
Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/default.sps?pa...&newsid=419884

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I think anyone who knows or watches a few of city's reserve games can safely say that Garry Breen is not going to make it as a top level professional, and although this is about all Irish players, its almost a waste of time listing him, he's clearly never going to be up to it. As for Leon Best however....!

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I think anyone who knows or watches a few of city's reserve games can safely say that Garry Breen is not going to make it as a top level professional, and although this is about all Irish players, its almost a waste of time listing him, he's clearly never going to be up to it. As for Leon Best however....!

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Is Best Irish ? I've not seen him in a squad for ages & his allegiance has been questioned.

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Is Best Irish ? I've not seen him in a squad for ages & his allegiance has been questioned.

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His mother's a dub. They should be asking him around this time where his allegiances truly lie as he seems to be fulfilling some of his early promise, he's got the lot trust me.

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I think anyone who knows or watches a few of city's reserve games can safely say that Garry Breen is not going to make it as a top level professional, and although this is about all Irish players, its almost a waste of time listing him, he's clearly never going to be up to it. As for Leon Best however....!

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I wouldn't count him out just yet. He's still captaining the U-18 side so has time to improve.
I read this blog for regular reports of the City reserve and Academy sides: http://mcfcreserves-academy.blogspot.com/

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Is Best Irish ? I've not seen him in a squad for ages & his allegiance has been questioned.

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The last mention I can find of him in an Ireland squad is the U-21 game against Sweden more than a year ago: http://www.rte.ie/pda/sport/2006/0220/1081353.html
There was a call up to an England underage side before that, but he was in at least 2 Irish squads since then
If it makes any difference, he's still listed as Irish in Football Manager 2007

Cillian Sheridan scored again for Celtic reserves yesterday.

leicester v birmingham 1-2

I didnt go to this one, but Logan played, as did Maybury, also forgotten man Sheehan making the bench with Yeates nowhere in sight, for birmingham, Doyle was in goal with Kelly at rightback.

according to bbc leicester, Logan had a poor game, was directly at fault for the first when he came and got stranded on a cross and left and easy finish for the opponents, and was also very lucky not to be the fault of another when he came when he shouldnt have, didnt claim, and the visitors really should have killed the game in the first half. his kicks were also too long, over and over, carrying through to the other keeper, which was particularly highlighted as he did it as leicester chased an unlikely, undeserved late equaliser.the bbc commentators seem to reckon he may not hold the spot after this.

Doyle, however recieved some compliments for his performance, was safe all evening with 2 key second half saves, Kelly also seemed to be holding his own.

OS report:http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...~33675,00.html

and a pre match piece with Logan from the bluearmy site

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Roar us on to a key win - Logan
By Andy Mann
Goalkeeper Conrad Logan today called on the Blue Army to play their part in the club's relegation battle.

Logan, who was recalled to the side for Nigel Worthington's first game in charge, hailed the support against Norwich.

Now the 21-year-old is calling for a repeat for tonight's crucial Championship clash against promotion-chasing Birmingham.

"I thought that the fans were great on Saturday," said Logan.

"It's magnificent as a player if the fans get behind you. We need that until the end of the season to help get us through."

Logan is in his sixth season at City after joining as a trainee from his home town of Ramelton in Donegal.

During his time at City he has seen the club experience two relegations from the Premiership and a top-flight promotion.

Now he is determined to play his part in ensuring City do not lose their proud record of having never played outside the top two divisions.

Logan said: "I have been here since Leicester were a Premiership side, went down and went back up. It's a massive club and it's a good club.

"It has a good fan base and an ambitious chairman who wants to get us back up to the Premiership.

"Hopefully, we will stay in this division and look towards the aims the chairman has set."

Logan added: "On a personal note I was happy to get back in there on Saturday but it's a team game and we were disappointed with the result. We have to go again. We have a chance again tonight to get three points and we have to do that.

"I thought we were good in the first half against Norwich. We faded a bit in the second half but, if we can keep going with that tempo, it will give us a chance

Irish Abroad for 17 April 2007

English Premier
Arsenal 3-1 Man City
Man City's Irish Players: Richard Dunne, Stephen Ireland(introduced on 90)

Man Utd 2-0 Sheff Utd
Man Utd's unused Irish substitutes: John O'Shea
Sheff Utd's Irish Players: Paddy Kenny, Derek Geary
Sheff Utd's unused Irish substitutes: Alan Quinn
Irish bookings: Derek Geary

Football League Championship
Burnley 3-0 Norwich
Burnley's Irish Players: James O'Connor, Chris McCann(introduced on 85)
Burnley's unused Irish substitutes: Graham Coughlan
Norwich's Irish Players: Michael Spillane

Leicester 1-2 Birmingham
Leicester's Irish Players: Conrad Logan, Alan Maybury(substituted on 75)
Leicester's unused Irish substitutes: Alan Sheehan
Birmingham's Irish Players: Colin Doyle, Stephen Kelly

Scottish Division 1
Clyde 0-1 St Johnstone
St Johnstone's Irish Players: Andy Jackson(introduced on 85)

Alan O'Brien had 2 assists as Newcastle reserves beat Middlesbrough reserves 5-1.
With Duff out injured, and N'Zogbia out of favor, he could come into the reckoning for the final few games of the season.

Middlesbrough review:http://www.mfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/....html?ptvParm=
Newcastle review: http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page...012531,00.html

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I've been looking at google base lately - http://base.google.com/base - I had heard it hosted information free of charge. But I'm not sure if it's what we're looking for.
Maybe if the format was correct then it would be handy. Has anyone any experience with it?

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Just to bring this topic back up but a Celtic forum I use regularly set up a wetpaint site back in August. This is it:
http://kerrydalestreet.com/

I think that's exactly the type of thing we're looking for? If so we can open a new thread and see who'd be interested in helping to set it up.

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Just to bring this topic back up but a Celtic forum I use regularly set up a wetpaint site back in August. This is it:
http://kerrydalestreet.com/

I think that's exactly the type of thing we're looking for? If so we can open a new thread and see who'd be interested in helping to set it up.

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Sounds ambitious, how long has the kerrydale site been running?
I was thinking of something slightly different, a database of player records (similar to soccerbase) but allowing for searching by users, for example if you wanted to know what Irish midfielder has scored the most in the last 5 games, or what goalkeeper has played the most minutes, outside of the premiership?
I was looking for an online database hosting site, but nothing suits. It might end up being a pipedream :(

Yeah, I wouldn't know a lot about that at all tbh. :) It's a nice idea though.

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Yeah, I wouldn't know a lot about that at all tbh. :) It's a nice idea though.

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It's pretty much what i do in work every day, so it wouldn't be too hard to set up a database and web site to do it, it's getting server space that's tough.

Arsenal are considering a summer move for Birmingham keeper Colin Doyle. (Daily Mirror) :eek: :eek:

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Arsenal are considering a summer move for Birmingham keeper Colin Doyle. (Daily Mirror) :eek: :eek:

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He'd be better staying where he is for the moment. Brimingham are likely to be in the Premiership next season and I'd only see him as second choice at Arsenal (even if Lehmann goes they'll get another higher profile keeper than Doyle).

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Arsenal are considering a summer move for Birmingham keeper Colin Doyle. (Daily Mirror) :eek: :eek:

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He'd be better staying where he is for the moment. Brimingham are likely to be in the Premiership next season and I'd only see him as second choice at Arsenal (even if Lehmann goes they'll get another higher profile keeper than Doyle).

On a side note is he any good? I seen him a few years ago and he looked a bit flakey. It's nice to see we have some strength in depth now with goalkeepers. I like the look of Supple at Ipswich. Looks a talent for a kid who's only 19.