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Thought a thread on well known Irish soccer personalities of the past would be interesting. All this talk about Cork football reminded me of Dave Bacuzzi who led Cork Hibs to success in the 1970s. Beat the Hoops in a title play off :mad:. Anyone know what happened to him?
He became a Travel Agent,I'd say retired now??
From a more recent era, anyone know the whereabouts of James (Jimmy) Mulligan, ex Cork City, Finn Harps and Sligo striker? Left Cork City around 2002/2003 and never heard a thing about him since.
I always thought he could be a stunt double for Christy MooreQuote:
Originally Posted by Onefootednopace
Former Drumcondra player Dan McCaffery was the club's top scorer in the 1960s I think when they won the title. He scored 29 league goals which is a Drumcondra record (in one season). Does anybody know if this is a League of ireland record?
Where they all league goals?
Brendan Bradley holds the league record for goals in a season with 29 in 30 games I think.
Sounds right. Couldn't find a list of top LoI goal scorers which was surprising. There's a Wikipedia page now for someone to build. I remember Mick Leech scoring a rake of goals one season for Rovers but I dobn't think he ever matched Brendan Bradley's 29. Where is Bradley now by the way?
Still lives in Derry and remains a regular at Finn Park.
I'm nearly sure Dan McCaffery has 29 in one League season.
This is for research purposes really. He was the first writers' playerof the year I think.It was in the 1060-61 season when Drumcondra won the title
Sorry that last post was a bit of a mess
Didn't know the LoI was going that long ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CCFC1924
Poor Drums. I remember them fondly as a mate of mine at school followed them. Sky blue jerseys if I recall correctly.
You can get some info here:
http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/iertops.html#all
Looks like the record is:
1935/36 Jimmy Turnbull (Cork) 37
That's a lot of goals, and in just 22 games as well! Cork only came third too.
Bradley's must have been a club record then I guess.. whoops!
So it looks likeQuote:
Originally Posted by TheBoss
1. Jimmy Turnbull (Cork) 37
2. Jimmy Gauld (Waterford) 30
3. Alec Hair (Shels), Paddy Bradshaw (St. James' Gate), Dan McCafferty (Drums) and Brendan Bradley all on 29!!
Tell me about it. They only wore sky blue for one season. As a kid I remember seeing them playing the great Waterford team and losing 4-2 after leading 2-0 at HT. Eoin Hand and Pete Mahon were playing for Drums that day. They traditional colours were yellow and blue and still as they are in the LSL.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
The reason I'm researching is Dan Mc scored against Westport United in a Connacht Cup final in Casltebar for Celtic in 1964. Just 3 years after banging 29 in in one LOI season! Currently piecing together history of the club so I'm going to cover a little segment on Dan and a few other notables :)
The 3 Englishmen of that Great Waterford team on the late 1960s/1970s: Johnny Matthews, Peter Thomas and Peter Bryant. I remember standing on the terraces as a kid in Milltown and hearing the venon being shouted in their direction from the Hoops supporters as by and large the Blues got the better of us (the Cup Final apart). DO they still live in Waterford?
Johnny Mathews is still floating around. Couldn't tell you about the other two though I'm sure someone else could.
Johnny Matthews is still very much around, always at the home games, and at many of the away matches too, sometimes filling in on the live radio commentary on WLR.
Peter Thomas is also still here, though he doesn't go to games anymore.
Peter Bryan moved to the States years back, probably in the region of 28-30 years ago, and is still there, California IIRC.
Just wondering the other day - whats Mark Rutherford and Gary Haylock upto these days, anyone know?
Garry Haylock was mentioned in the Dundalk-UCD match programme; he's manager of Hayes & Yeading at the moment. Apparently in a recent match, they were 7-0 down after 35 minutes!
Rutherford is playing for Dublin Bus in the LSL according to Wikipedia.