QuoteEqually though, time was the Liverpool / Man U match would have been the one with the larger number of Irish players. Funny how times changes.
If you're looking at a team before this Villa iteration then it was probably Villa in the early to mid-90's - McGrath, Houghton, Staunton, Townsend and Gareth Farrelly may have played in a team together.
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Equally though, time was the Liverpool / Man U match would have been the one with the larger number of Irish players. Funny how times changes.
Houghton left the year before Farrelly made his debut unfortunately.Originally Posted by SwanVsDalton
The good ol' days.
In 1986 there were 3 regulars for the champions Liverpool, Beglin, Whelan and Lawro
3 regulars for FA cup winners Man U, Moran, McGrath and Stapleton
1987
Champions again, Liverpool had Lawrenson, Aldridge, Houghton, Whelan and young Stan cleaning the boots. Man U had Moran and McGrath
Villa v Everton a couple of weeks ago.
Edit: Danny beat me to it!
When Mick McCarthy ran on to complain about a penalty!
it was a different game then though innit. All those fackin forriners innit? Takin Irish jobs.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Which got me thinking about Sunderland who not so long ago had an embarrassingly large collection of Irish journeymen.
Which got me thinking about another great green-white-gold hope Roy O'Donovan who has now settled at the bottom of the Coventry squad who themselves are sitting not bery pretty at the bottom of the Championship.
I think most of the rest have retired.
Leeds had a strong Irish presence when they were at the top of their game around the new millenium Keane, Harte, Kelly, McPhail, Maybury and O'Leary at the side. They usually have a few in the squad the current squad being no exception.
Nasty fall there for Dunne, looks to have been his shoulder. Hope he's not out too long.
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Dunne walks off with a shoulder injury in stoppage time against Manchester City. Took a bad fall after challenging for a header with Joe Hart. Hopefully not too bad.
Just saw that, well not the incident itself but just after, looks to me like he might have done his collar bone.
I'm not an expect but I was holding my shoulder in a similar fashion when I did mine.
Yeah, that's how you can tell if a cyclist has done his collar bone.
Dislocation or collar bone - you'd think he should still be fit for the Euros. A 5 week break right now could actually do him good.
Anyway, if he's injured we can draft in McClean
Suspected dislocated shoulder. He'll be out for 8 to 10 weeks if in need of an operation: https://twitter.com/#!/YouBoysInGree...79575118143489
Bad news. That's the kind of injury that can reoccur easily and plague players long-term. Hope he gets back and stays off it before June.
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Some more info from Villa: http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...608682,00.html
Richard Dunne faces an anxious wait to discover the extent of the shoulder injury he sustained against Manchester City.
Dunne is being assessed by a specialist after landing awkwardly in an aerial challenge at the end of the Sky Sports Sunday game.
Manager McLeish was waiting for a definite prognosis on the problem but confirmed it looked like being at least a month on the sidelines for the defensive giant.
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McLeish said: "Dunnie's not going to be back for the next game, that's for sure.
"I don't know at this moment exactly what's happened. He's definitely damaged his shoulder which is part of the bad luck we've been having recently.
"We have a specialist right now looking at him. We always have specialists in the crowd for different parts of the body.
"One of the guys was looking at him as I came up for the press conference.
"I don't know what's going to happen with the Big Un.
"Whether he is going to go tonight to hospital? I don't know what they do if it's dislocated.
"I can't give you an answer just now. I do believe he will be out for at least a month. That's serious enough.
The guy we can least afford to do without imo. Just as well it happened now and not on the last day of the season or something horrendous like that.
I agree. He is the only indispensable player in the Irish squad. Losing any other regular starter would not be ideal, but we do have cover.
Definately Dunne his shoulder in.
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