Worst Irish player ever!

[youngirish]

I suspect that some people's loathing of Alan Kernaghan may be a mixed bag containing overheard influences from Dunphy's pillorying of him from the very beginning of his career, leading to his assigning him near sole blame for the 3-1 home defeat to Spain in 1993, a match where none in green did themselves proud. I thought he was unlucky not to play in the USA, particularly with the hindsight of what Phil Babb went on to become - a Spice Boy and golfing magazine publisher.

Speaking of Kernaghan, here is an interesting article on him and nationality I found a link to on his wikipedia page.

He has few regrets, however. "I had no problems pulling on the Republic shirt," he reflects. "I was simply furthering my career.

Reading that article makes me all the happier he didn't represent us in the World Cup. Thank God Babb got in and it helped him to further his career instead.

And he was absolute sh*te no matter what the pc brigade on here like to believe. A couple of decent performances in 26 caps does not overturn the fact that he was absolutely dire in the majority of his other 2 dozen performances. Kevin Kilbane, Chris Morris, Paul McShane, Phil Babb, Gary Doherty and David Connolly have all put in excellent performances for Ireland on rare occasions throughout the years but all are poor players for the simple reason that football is about consistency and not one off games, something that gets overlooked quite often on these boards.

Anyway back to Kernaghan he was certainly the poorest player I can remember lining out for Ireland who got more than a handful of caps. He was garbage at club level also.