O’Mahony signed a pro deal a few days ago with Cork. Good player, seems like a decent lad. Natural goal scorer.Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
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O’Mahony signed a pro deal a few days ago with Cork. Good player, seems like a decent lad. Natural goal scorer.Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
Abankwah made his Udinese debut today coming on in the 86th minute in a 3-0 loss to Bologna.
Question asked on YBIG have two Irish players ever appeared in the same top flight game before?
The last top flight continental game(ie Spain, Italy, or Germany) with two Irish players I could find was a la liga game between Osasuna and Sporting Gijon in December 1988 that featured Michael Robinson and Kevin Moran
But that's the only site with the lineups I could find, so open to correction on it
https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/p/p.php?id=17156
Did Harte and Finnan timelines cross at Levante & Espanyol?
No, Harte returned to England in 2007 to play for Sunderland, Finnan went to Espanyol in 2008
Moran and Aldridge were in La Liga at the same time; did they meet?
Ditto John Byrne and Mick McCarthy in Ligue 1.
Did Cascarino cross paths with any Irish men in France?
according to Wikipedia, le Havre were not in ligue 1 in the 1989-90 season when Mick was at LyonQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989...nch_Division_1
Aldridge and Moran were in la Liga at the same time for only one season, 1989-90, but only Aldridge played in the two games between Real Sociedad and Sporting Gijon that season
It's the same site with the lineups again, so it's tough to verify
https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/p/p.php?id=17545
https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/p/p.php?id=17735
Going by Wikipedia, he was the only Irish player in Ligue 1 at that timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
https://tr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligu...istesi#Irlanda
That page is in Turkish, and is out of date - Messi isn't on it!. Unfortunately, the English language version is completely empty
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...igue_1_players
Did Alan Mahon and Phil Babb not play any matches together at Sporting?
Frank Stapleton and John Byrne at Le Havre in the late 80s? Or were they in the second division by that stage?
They did, but I did specify that this was in the top continental leagues, ie Spanish, German or ItalianQuote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
Stapleton was only there for the 88-89 season, when they were in Ligue 2Quote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E...nch_Division_2
Where Alan Campbell and Liam Buckley at Racing Santander at the same time. Campbell was there between 84 and 86
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_C...yed%20for%20Sh
Whilst Buckley was there between 86 and 87
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Buckley
Not clear whether their spells there crossed over but Santander were in La Liga in 1986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_de_Santander
looks like Campbell move to Logrones when Buckley moved to Santander: https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-42322612.html
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Liam Buckley
Racing Santander (1986-1987)
One Dubliner (Buckley) replaced another (Campbell) at Santander for the 1986/87 season and ex-Rovers man Buckley, who moved to Spain after a happy two-year spell with Belgian side Waragem also adapted well to life in Spain, making his debut away to Barcelona, up against Gary Lineker and Mark Hughes who were also debutants. After one year in Spain, Buckley moved on again, to Switzerland but five goals in 35 games that season in Spain was a decent return.
Great to see the progression of our young players.
Abankwah, Guessand, Cocetta reflect on debut joy
https://www.udinese.it/news/squad/ab...t-on-debut-joy
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Abankwah: “I'm very happy to have made my full Serie A debut. I want to thank the gaffer and all my team-mates. It was a difficult game against a good team. I was very tired and Ielt cramp but I just tried to do my best."
Has he played any football all season? I think he's been on the bench pretty much every game but not come on. Is there a reserve league or anything that he's been playing?
I was watching this last night, and he was RCB in a five at the back & he did fine up to the injury on the hour, glad he's saying its cramp today as he was injured blocking a shot and he immediately sat down and signalled to the bench, he was holding his quadriceps and it didn't look great at the time. In play he had one nice reading of a deep cross which he came back out to nod away, a player has drifted in late behind the defence but he copped it & most likely stopped a goal there. He was beaten in the box once when he might have been stronger in the challenge but there was cover and it didn't come to anything. He was available for ball but not really demanding it, and he looked to play the safe ball most times, back across the defensive line rather than into midfield. He did fine, looked calm and was getting on with it. The winning goal minutes after he had to come off was a shot from the RCB area FWIW and Juve hadn't had any shots away from there while he was out there.