List of all Irish players abroad

**holidaysong** · 09/12/2004, 12:09 PM

Wee Correction - the man utd player is Kyle Moran not morgan..

**eirebhoy** · 14/12/2004, 1:04 PM

An update on the Irish at Arsenal. Here's what the reserve coach had to say after the Spurs match:

on Patrick Cregg's progress...
“He scored a well worked goal tonight. We had some good patches of play and we got inbetween their midfield and the back players. From there I wanted them to make runs to get in behind them and Patrick scored a goal doing just that. I think Patrick has done ever so well. He's only a teenager but he's played at Manchester United and made some great strides this season. That's all you can do for the manager.”

on Anthony Stokes' individual goal...
“Stokes scored a very good individual goal. He did ever so well, showed great persistence and skill and got his reward. He worked really hard again and finishes well."

on Stokes adapting to a new position...
“Stokes is adding to his game all the time and what we're trying to produce is an intelligent footballer. The manager talks a lot about football intelligence and the players are taking up the challenge. It's important they get a football education. You don't know where they will end up as players so when they go out there and do a job for the team they can function in different positions."

Stephen O'Donnell scored Arsenal's only goal against Palace last night too. Sean Kelly came off the bench.

Marcos Painter was sent off for Birmingham reserves against Fulham. Stephen Foley and James O'Connor started for Villa and O'Connor hit the bar.

Darren Potter ran the show for Liverpool reserves (Partridge was in the original lineup but was replaced by Warnock yesterday afternoon which most likely was down to injury). On-loan Colin Doyle started for Nottm Forest:

Forest took the lead in the match on the hour mark but Liverpool were level within three minutes through a cool penalty from Foy after Potter was brought down.

Potter was a class act throughout the match and his passing and probing was a big feature of Liverpool's performance. He combined well in the centre of midfield with captain John Welsh who played a deeper role to allow Potter to dictate the play.

Liverpool made a bright start in the match and Mark Smyth was denied a goal by a fine save from Colin Doyle after brilliant approach play from Darren Potter.

Another superb pass from Potter almost produced a goal for Liverpool but Robbie Foy in a great position was unlucky to see Doyle deny him with a superb diving save.

Within three minutes Liverpool were level courtesy of a Robbie Foy penalty. Superb skill from Potter saw him brought down in the area and a penalty was awarded. As cool as you like Foy sent Doylethe wrong way from 12 yards.

Liverpoolfc.tv Man of the Match: Darren Potter. Classy display in midfield and his passing was superb.

Full report

**tetsujin1979** · 15/12/2004, 9:06 AM

Paddy MCCarthy, Willo Flood started and Karl Bermingham came on for MAn City reserves in a 4-1 defeat to their Blackburn counterparts. Read the report here

No mention of Stephen Ireland, although the youth team are playing in the FA youth cup tonight and AFAIK he's still qualified to play for them

**SaucyJack** · 15/12/2004, 3:15 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Paddy MCCarthy, Willo Flood started and Karl Bermingham came on for MAn City reserves in a 4-1 defeat to their Blackburn counterparts. Read the report here

No mention of Stephen Ireland, although the youth team are playing in the FA youth cup tonight and AFAIK he's still qualified to play for them

James Lee-Mathews was on the subs bench for City he's also a ROI youth international.

**eirebhoy** · 16/12/2004, 1:47 PM

Spurs don't seem to have their reserve report up yet so this is taken from the West Ham site:

Unfortunately for Kevin Keen’s men it was a sign of things to come. Six minutes later Mark Yeates cut in from the left and curled a fabulous effort past Burch to put Spurs ahead.

Yeates tested Burch again five minutes later, his free-kick deflecting off the West Ham wall before finding its way through to the Hammers goalkeeper. With the home side struggling to find their rhythm, Spurs went further ahead just before half-time. Yeates’ through-ball released Jamie Slabber who scored with a cool finish to send Kevin Keen’s men in 2-0 down at the break.

Yeates made the first team bench on Saturday and Jol was at the West Ham match so it shouldn't be long before he gets his chance.

**Stuttgart88** · 17/12/2004, 8:07 AM

Saul Deeney was on the telly the other night for Notts County vs Swindon. Wayne Henderson wasn't allowed to play to avoid being cup-tied.

piratemousey · 20/12/2004, 10:14 AM

maybe theyre should be a list of irish people playing in ireland.............................

**tetsujin1979** · 22/12/2004, 9:09 PM

Willo Flood and Paddy McCarthy played for the Man City reserves in a defeat to Bolton last night, Willo Flood appeared to be running the show according to the match report, and scored in the penalty shoot out, McCarthy missed his penalty. Pity, he has a decent rep for free kicks.

City lost out to Bolton Wanderers in the Manchester Senior Cup after the game went to a penalty shoot out.
The match at SportCity ended 1-1 and so went to a penalty shoot out which was won by the visitors.

City opened brightly with Willo Flood making a mazy run towards the Bolton box, his final shot was blocked and Bradley Wright-Phillips sent the rebound wide of the post.

However it was Bolton who took the lead with possibly their only real foray of the game on the City goal mouth. Dale Whitehead coasted in at the far post to head home Reda Kribib’s left wing cross.

Wright-Phillips had a great chance to level the scores when Bolton’s Danny Livesey slipped.

The City striker and the side’s top scorer ran onto Marc Lairds pass but Andy Oakes in the Wanderers goal produced a fine save diving to his left to keep out Wright-Phillips shot.

Both Christian Negouai and Micah Richards, in his first full appearance for the reserves, both went close as City pressed forward for an equaliser.

As the side stepped up the pressure Andy Oakes kept out a rasping shot from Flood.

City were handed a lifeline on fifty six minutes when the referee spotted a pushing incident in the box.

Bradley Wright-Phillips stepped up to score from the penalty spot sending the keeper the wrong way.

The hitman should have then given his side the lead but could only look on with despair as he flashed a header from a Flood cross wide of the post.

In the final piece of action in the game Oakes kept out a curling free kick from Flood to send the game to penalties.

Teams:
Manchester City: Weaver, Lee-Matthews, Collins, Negouai, McCarthy, Onuoha, Flood, Richards, Bermingham, B Wright-Phillips, Laird
Subs: Schmeichel (GK), Warrender, N D’Laryea, Bennett, Miller

Bolton Wanderers: Oakes, Powell, Hill (Fojut 78), Livesey, Comyn-Platt, Campo, Whitehead, Fadiga, Buval, Vaz Te (Luisi 57), Kribib (Gibb 62)
Subs: Howarth (GK), Knowles

Penalties:
Manchester City:Flood, Collins, Onuoha all scored……..McCarthy, B Wright-Phillips missed

**livehead1** · 29/12/2004, 5:42 PM

Originally Posted by piratemousey

maybe theyre should be a list of irish people playing in ireland.............................

pointless.....99% of the ones who will make it are playing in england now

on another point...has anyone heard anything about patrick kohlmann at dortmund recently? wats the craic wit him

**Superhoops** · 02/01/2005, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by livehead1

on another point...has anyone heard anything about patrick kohlmann at dortmund recently? wats the craic wit him

He made his senior debut in November against FC Kaiserslautern but suffered a bad knee injury just before-half time.

German football is on its winter break until mid January, so he may be back by then.

**eirebhoy** · 05/01/2005, 11:25 AM

There's a new addition to the Chelsea list on the first page and he could have asked for no better mentor(s).

**eirebhoy** · 06/01/2005, 2:11 PM

And just to confirm what I said above:

Manager, Sean McCaffrey, has included Alan Sheehan (Leicester City), James Simmonds (Chelsea), Billy Clarke (Ipswich Town), Diarmuid O’Carroll (Celtic) and David Elebert (Preston), none of the five featured in the UEFA Championships First Qualifying Phase in Cyprus in October last.

http://www.soccercentral.ie/viewstor...&viewstory=yes

Simmonds has played for England at underage level a good few times but chose Ireland in the end. Maybe Duffer persuaded him. He's only 17 and a regular in the Chelsea reserves.

Leon Best isn't in the squad so it looks like he chose England. If thats the case hopefully its a good swap deal and Simmonds runs riot.

**tetsujin1979** · 06/01/2005, 2:40 PM

I see John Paul Kelly is listed as being with Ipswich now, so that's official? Last I heard he was only interesting them, didn't know he had signed

**eirebhoy** · 06/01/2005, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

I see John Paul Kelly is listed as being with Ipswich now, so that's official? Last I heard he was only interesting them, didn't know he had signed

no, I think he's training with them atm. Still has a couple of trials to do.

**Closed Account 2** · 08/01/2005, 4:18 PM

NEWS ON IRISH PLAYERS IN FA CUP ROUND 3

Robbie Keane scored a decent goal today.

Mahon's goal was a real gem by all accounts - Kav had a great shot from very far out, just clipped over the bar apparently.

Maybury played about 30 mins for Leicester (came on as a sub), Connolly played the whole match but didnt score - as did Morrison (for B'ham v Leeds).

Think Zat Knight scored for Fulham at Watford... but I dont see him playing for us anyway.

Other players who played full 90

Kennedy (Wolves v Millwall)
Stack (above)
Garry "remember me?" Kelly (B'ham v Leeds)
Delap (N'hampton v S'hampton)
Neil Kilkenny (for Oldham v Man City) - think he's Irish, on loan from Villa or B'ham ?
Gallen (for QPR v Forest)
The Doc™ (for Norwich at West Ham - in def for 80 mins then they chucked him up front apparently)

Miller played 63 mins for Man Utd (then subbed off)
Flood came on for c.20 mins

Duffer was rested in the Chelsea v Scúnthorpe.

Zinadine Kilbane will play for Everton @ Plymouth this evening (its on TV I think). Anyone know if Plymouth have any Irish players ?

Also for those interested Levante V Valencia is on Sky tonight - could be worth watching to see how/if Harte improved as he'll face pretty good strikers (Di Viao, Corradi maybe Aimar).

**eirebhoy** · 08/01/2005, 5:21 PM

Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo

Anyone know if Plymouth have any Irish players ?

Micky Evans - FC - 1.1.1973 (31)
Graham Coughlan - DC - 18.11.1974 (30)
Dave Worrell - DR - 12.1.1978 (26)
Tony McKeever - DC - 26.7.1988 (16)

Jay Tabb scored Brentford's second goal away to Luton.

**sligoman** · 08/01/2005, 8:50 PM

There is an Irish player with Scarborough FC.He's from Sligo and his name is Keith Gilroy,here he is:

http://www.scarboroughfc.co.uk/Squad...page.asp?ID=52

Also Ian Rossiter's(Finn Harps) brother Mark, is with Sunderland,also from Sligo.Altough I think he was released recently.Here he is:

http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/s...73&method=full

**Plastic Paddy** · 09/01/2005, 8:29 AM

Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo

NEWS ON IRISH PLAYERS IN FA CUP ROUND 3

Neil Kilkenny (for Oldham v Man City) - think he's Irish, on loan from Villa or B'ham ?

Not one of ours. Despite being chosen to play for various under-age squads, he's decided to take the Queen's Shilling instead. Hopefully he'll just disappear into obscurity now...

PP