The new season starts today, with Chris Shields and Conor Pepper lining out for Linfield this evening in their Champions League qualifier against Zalgiris of Lithuania
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A lot of credit to Linfield in terms of how they seem to have been able to create an environment for Irish people and potentially nationalist people to enjoy their time there. Pat Fenlon is general manager and there's Pepper and Shields. A man called Quinn that was named Niall is surely from a more Irish leaning background, as Daniel Kearns and Paul Smyth before him were.
I'm not sure what has driven this but I'd like to find out.
Greg Cunningham's 300th career appearance, Callum Robinson's tenth goal for West Brom, Jamie Devitt's first booking since January 2020, and more in the first round up of the season: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...03861177717662
Festy Ebosele named man of the match in his first start for Derby, Lee O'Connor scored his first goal in senior football, Kian Leavy's senior debut, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...78847445677313
Live lineup blog live blogging here: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Live
Ethon Varian scores his first goal in his first senior start, Seamus Coleman's 300th Premier League appearance, Stephen Ward's 450th appearance in English football, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...72378801307551
Zack Elbouzedi's first goal for AIK, Darragh Lenihan's first goal since February 2020, Carl McHugh's first appearance in the AFC Cup, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...73623938286295
Been working on a small update to the live tweets.
Keep an eye on the post match summaries over the weekend: https://twitter.com/irish_abroad
Seamus Coleman's first yellow card since 2019, Eoin Doyle's 50th appearance for Bolton, Alan Power's first red card for St Mirren, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...75538179030440
In the first episode of the podcast in two months, myself, Mark Kennedy from hawkeyesidekick.con and Philip Flanagan from The Bottomless Pit Of Football discuss what Irish football fans can expect in the 2021/22 season
https://shows.acast.com/irish-footba...season-preview
Or listen on Spotify here
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Lo...nk&dl_branch=1
Two Ireland players score a hat trick on the same day for the first time since 2018, two players make their senior career debut, Nathan Collins' 50th career appearance, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...41660001675428
Tyreik Wright's first senior goal, Jake Carroll's 50th appearance for Motherwell, Cillian Sheridan's 100th appearance in the SPL, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...99599670946878
Andrew Omobamidele's first appearance in the Premier League, Shane Duffy's 100th appearance in the PL, Sean McDermott's 150th appearance in Norway's Eliteserien, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...38786936721347
Callum Robinson starts for West Brom tonight, while Jayson Knight starts for visitors Derby, having recovered faster than expected from injury.
In the new podcast episode, I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of Hawkeye Sidekick, Philip Flanaganf of The Bottomless Pit of Football, and guest Jimmy Carew of Pog Mo Goal to review the Ireland qualifiers against Portugal, Azerbaijan, and Serbia - what went right, what went wrong, and what we want to see in October
Acast: https://shows.acast.com/irish-footba...s-in-september
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fY...jQ&dl_branch=1
Oisin McAtee's first appearance for Morton, Ronan Curtis' 150th appearance for Portsmouth, Aaron Doran's 300th appearance for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, and more stats that don't involve landmark appearances in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...56637023129673
Very Good podcast
Thank you, needed a few marathon editing sessions to get it finished!Quote:
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I've been collecting the various playing statistics and including them in player tweets, now the summaries are added to the day's summary: https://twitter.com/irish_abroad/sta...02227082207232
Will Ferry's first senior goal, Sean Maguire's 100th start for Preston, Jonathan Hayes' 300th appearance in the Scottish Premiership, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...18701978437955
Tom O'Connor's first goal in two years, Greg Cunningham's 200th appearance in the Championship, Seamus Conneely's 250th start for Accrington Stanley, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...38790790811592
Nathan Collins' Premier League debut, six players score their first goal of the season, eight players are booked for the first time this season, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...31094967061665
In the new episode of the podcast, I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of hawkeyesidekick.com and Reuters journalist Philip O'Connor to discuss Zach Elbouzedi's performances in Sweden, preview the two games against Azerbaijan and Qatar, and pay our respects to Jimmy Greaves
acast.com: https://shows.acast.com/irish-footba...valley-ronaldo
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pB...kQ&dl_branch=1
Two players reach 50 appearances for their respective clubs, Callum O'Dowda starts a game for the 150th time, Derrick Williams' 300th career appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...59427874392630
In the new episode of the podcast, I'm joined by Mark Kennedy Philip Flanagan to discuss the two recent wins against Azerbaijan and Qatar, and the qualifying results for the U21 and U17 sides
Acast: https://shows.acast.com/irish-footba...s-only-one-cr7
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Mq...b3a3263f004f91
Michael Obafemi and Jonathan Afolabi score their first goals for their respective clubs, Olamide Shodipo's 100th career appearance, Ryan Manning's 150th appearance in English football, and more in the (delayed, apologies) weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...78426770174535
Zak Delaney (19, West Brom) has joined Vanarama National League South side Bath City on loan until January, 2022. He has been a regular in Albion's PL2 team over the last 18 months, and was named as a substitute for the club's Carabao Cup tie against Arsenal earlier this season. (WBA website 29 Oct)
You sure? He's playing for West Brom's U23 side tonightQuote:
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Andrew Omobamidele becomes the 113th Irish player to score in the Premier League, Eoghan O'Connell's first assist in exactly a year, Anthony O'Connor's 400th career appearance, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...70226257687376
I was quoting the announcement made on the WBA website. Same announcement made on Bath City website, which explains that the short loan deal owes something to their manager (Jerry Gill) and Robert Beale, 'Senior professional development phase coach' at WBA, being friends. I assume the loan runs from the coming weekend.Quote:
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Dylan Connolly was to make only his third EFL 2 start of the season for Northampton v Carlisle Utd on 30 October, but tested positive for Covid-19. So opportunity knocked for another former Dundalk player, Jordan Flores, who took his place.
Just noticed Bath's game last weekend was postponed, that might be why he was still with West Brom's U23s last nightQuote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
Taylor Gardner Hickman played tonight for WBA. Played for us U19 and supposedly was very good tonight according to the folks on ybig!
Evan Ferguson's first senior goal, Tyreik Wright's first start in seven weeks, James McClean's 100th apperance for Wigan Athletic, and more in the midweek round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...35561008667817
Festy Ebosele's first goal in senior football, Josh Cullen's 200th career appearance, Shaun Williams' 450th appearance in English football, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...26949422348002
Ahead of the final two qualifiers, I'm joined by Mark Kennedy of hawkeyesidekick to discuss the squad picked by Stephen Kenny to face Portugal and Luxembourg, the U21 squad, Ruud Dokter's decision to leave, and the new away jersey
https://shows.acast.com/irish-footba...bial-cup-final
Dark Matters: a deep dive into claims made on Second Captains about Giovanni Trapattoni's time in charge: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...96039860266728
Given our bumper crop of decent defenders, Sean McLoughlin's progress at Hull City has perhaps been under the radar. He makes his fifth start and eighth appearance in the Championship today, in a back three against Bristol City.
According to Punditarena.com (4 Dec) T G-H "has previously been a part of Ireland U19 squads in the past, and is understood to be in the process of acquiring an Irish passport". Has he actually played for the U-19s? Anyway, he starts again for WBA today (11th).Quote:
Originally Posted by gastric