Graham Cummins made his debut for Preston tonight playing the full 90 minutes in a 1-0 win over Hartlepool, only their second win in eight. Rhys Murphy came off the bench in the 67th minute and was then replaced in the 89th...no apparent injury.
Andy Keogh got his first goal for Millwall tonight as well, as I recall from the Soccer Special commentary it was a tap in from close range following a corner.
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Graham Cummins got his first goal in English football today for Preston.
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Breaking news -Niall Quinn is leaving Sunderland, no immediate reason given.
Just got this from RTE.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2012/0220/quinnn.html
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First sentence.Originally Posted by gastric
to concentrate on his family and business interests outside football.
Quinn always said it was going to be a five year project. He actually stayed 6 years. Done a remarkable job and is worshipped in Sunderland. Wouldn't it be fantastic if he took over the running of the FAI. Now there's a thought.
Always look on the bright side of life
Joe,
Look at the time of the post and the time of the edit. I just updated the post when I found more info!
, Relax, just being a pedant on a Monday morning. He's off to concentrate on QSat, good luck to him.
Brentford - Carlisle just finished, very enjoyable match which Brentford won 4-0.
Jon Douglas was the only Irishman for Brentford and was playing in central midfield, perhaps a bit more defensively but got forward quite a bit. Thought he had an excellent game, broke up a fair few attacks coming through the middle and showed good composure and awareness going forward.
For Carlisle, Paddy Madden was given his first ever league start in England as he was deployed as a lone centre forward aided by two wingers (and in the second half they switched to 4-4-2). Didn't see much of him as he was effectively isolated, but showed a couple of decent sparks of activity. James Berrett was listed as being on the right side of a three man midfield at the start but was pretty much playing in the center of the pitch. Don't think he had a great match, Carlisle lacked creativity going forward and were overrun in the midfield. Finally, Peter Murphy played at centre half for Carlisle, in spite of the scoreline he didn't play particularly badly (some shocking goalkeeping from Carlisle's Adam Collin), but wasn't great either and was partially at fault for the first goal when he was beaten in the air by Harlee Dean to head in to an empty net (which shouldn't have been empty). Oh yes and Graham Kavanagh is Carlisle's assistant manager and was on TV a bit as well.
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That is true devotion to the cause.
Coincidentally, the day that Dominic Foley has a random article written about him
http://www.offthepost.info/blog/2012...dominic-foley/
he goes and signs for Limerick FC
http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/fo...t-3025982.html
Goal for Michael Cummins (Gateshead against York), Odubade takes a low hard corner to Cummins about 16 yards out, takes a touch, and blasts it past the York keeper. 1-0 Gateshead in the 2nd minute. Alan O'Brien also starting for Gateshead.
EDIT: Odubade and Cummins connect againt for Gateshead's second. Odubade whips a cross in from the right, Cummins, arriving at the backpost, gets up and puts the bullet header past Ingham in the York goal.
First senior goal for Matt Doherty for Hibs as well tonight.
Tommy Coyne's son Bradley Coyne with a goal for Forfar in a 4-1 loss to Arbroath, not even sure he'd be eligible though as Coyne may have qualified through his grandparents (though Coyne may have gotten his passport early enough that he would qualify).
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Everton have signed Sam Kelly from Norwich City. He's a brother of Danny Kelly who played for us a few years ago. Not sure where his allegiances lie.
http://evertonyouths.wordpress.com/2...omwich-albion/
Mark Connolly has gone on loan from Bolton to Maccesfield Town
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17153385
Short interview with Connolly on Macclesfield's site: http://www.mtfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetai...622626,00.html
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Starting in defence today away to Oxford
Just a couple of small notes from the weekend...
Paddy Madden with a first goal in England for Carlisle
Gary Doherty with his first goal in over two years for Wycombe
Adam Barton had his ankle pretty much destroyed in a challenge against Walsall, apparently had surgery today.
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Rhys Murphy scored a penalty, conceded by former u17 player Sean Tse, for Preston reserves in a behind closed doors game against Man City in a game that will probably be remembered as Carlos Tevez's first appearance in a Man City jersey since refusing to get warmed up against Bayern
Preston review: http://www.pnefc.net/page/Reserves/0...627306,00.html
Man City review: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Match-rep...entral-Lge-Cup
former poster Tuff Paddy posted on the ybig forum that he'd bet that James McCarthy has more Premier League minutes under his belt in the last 2 years than pretty much every other player on the field on Wednesday night, so I decided to take that bet
I examined the Irish Abroad database, run the numbers and used the following restrictions:
Only games from 1st March 2010 until 29th February 2012 were counted - i.e. a timespan of 2 years, as stated in the original post from Tuff Paddy
Only players from the Ireland - Czech Republic game were included - no injured, suspended or omitted players were involved
Only minutes played in Premier League games count - no European, FA Cup, or League Cup appearances
Games are assumed to finish at 90 minutes, injury time is not counted, so if a player is not substituted, then they played 90 minutes, and if they are substituted then the gametime for that player for that game was the time they were substituted on
Similarly, if a player is introduced from the bench, the time from that minute to the 90th minute is the game time for that player in that game, e.g. introduced on 70 minutes = 20 minutes gametime
with that in mind, here are the final results:
I would have thought Whelan would have been ahead of FoleyCode:Player Minutes Stephen Ward 5090 James McCarthy 4672 Jonathan Walters 4395 Kevin Foley 4241 Glenn Whelan 3673 John O'Shea 3654 Damien Duff 3438 Seamus Coleman 3156 Stephen Hunt 2563 Shay Given 2454 Shane Long 1480 Robbie Keane 1075 Keith Andrews 851 James McClean 763 Simon Cox 559 Shane Duffy 181 Darren O'Dea 0 Sean St. Ledger 0 Aiden McGeady 0 Paul Green 0 David Forde 0 Stephen Henderson 0
For the record, Richard Dunne would be far and away the most minutes had he played, with 5941 minutes since 1st March 2010.
As always, this is open to correction
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Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Decent match between two promotion chasing sides in League Two, Southend vs Crawley, ended 0-0.
Michael Timlin the only Irish starter for Southend, started in central midfield. Was relatively solid in midfield, not the most impetus to go forward but kept things tidy in midfield.
Kane Ferdinand came on around 75 minutes for Southend after they were already down to 10 men (this after having been in trouble with boss Paul Sturrock for breaching the team's discipline rules). Southend quickly went down to 9 men after Liam Dickinson went down injured and they had made all of their subs, so he wasn't able to do much.
For Crawley, Rene Gilmartin started in goal, not sure he had a save to make all match.
Scott Davies started in midfield for them, his first appearance in Crawley for quite some time (I thought they had actually let him go when he went to Aldershot...was just a loan). I thought he did very well, as expected his right foot caused Southend some problems both from set plays and he provided a fair bit of creativity in midfield for them. Had a good low effort from maybe 25-30 yards out saved I think it was late in the first half. I remember he was banging in the goals for Aldershot a few years ago when he was on loan from Reading and thinking he'd go much farther, but so far that hasn't happened.
Billy Clarke the final Irish player in the match, started up front for Crawley. Watched him last week against Shrewsbury and he was very lively and causing the Shrewsbury defence problems throughout, though Crawley lost 2-1 that night. He was similarly active tonight but his finishing really let him down tonight. The ball fell to him alone in the box around midway through the second half. With only the keeper and defender Chris Barker on the line to beat (from about 8 yards, unchallenged), he hit it just to the side of him, though Barker stuck out a hand to stop it from going in...red card. Clarke stepped up and took the penalty, pretty poorly relatively hard and basically down the middle, which Cameron Belford kept out. Clarke would have two more good chances, a looping header that just went wide of the post and a shot late on that he skewed wide.
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