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
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