Ronnie O'Brien played for a Major League Select XI against Real Madrid last night, althought football365 referred to him as a US International for some reason??
Partridge, Coughlan and Whelan started tonight for Wednesday. Coughlan went off with a serious injury late in the match. Partridge and Whelan both played 120 minutes. Partridge scored and played well.
ARSENAL 2-0 CREWE ALEXANDRA
Under-18s
Friday, August 19, 2005
Arsenal began their assault on the FA Premier Academy League with a 2-0 win over Crewe Alexandra on Friday.
A goal either side of the break did the damage for the Gunners. 17-year-old Republic of Ireland youth international Anthony Stokes gave Arsenal the lead on the 15 minute mark.
Last season's under-18 top scorer Niklas Bendtner, then sealed the win with Arsenal's second 15 minutes from the end.
Arsenal: Howard, Rodgers, Murphy, Muamba, Kelly, Steer, Simpson, Randall, Bendtner, Stokes (Efrem).
Stokes was also in the Irish U19 side that got a draw in Bulgaria last night.
Here's something I posted last season:Originally Posted by SaucyJack
http://foot.ie/showpost.php?p=229925&postcount=92
byrnie20 has seen him a few times and has compared him to Xabi Alonso.
Not sure this is the place for this, but I don't think it's worthy of its own thread but I thought Liam Miller looked pretty good last night. Nice touches, good passing, always making himself available. Lost it a bit too easily once or twice though. Game was over by the time he came on & I got the impression Ferguson only played him because of this.
bury v leicester 0-3
leicester fielded a weakened side but it was still comfortable.Maybury played at left-back and crossed for one of the goals.Connolly was,again, ruled out with an injury but is set to return to the side for luton on saturday.McCarthy started on the bench,he is also having ankle trouble at the moment,bit was called into action after half an hour as the lad in his spot got injured.
Fitzgerald and Barry-Murphy played for bury.
Just to let people know that Ipswich play Preston Live on Sky Sports today at 12:45,Owen Garvan should be starting for Ipswich.
How did Garvan do? Couldn't have been at his best if he was subbed at 3-0 down.
Willo Flood and Micky Doyle (you'd never guess they were Irish) should both start for Coventry against Soton tonight on SS1.
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Flood did quite well from what I saw (second half only). He covers a huge amount of ground and is very tenacious. He certainly doesn't shirk his defensive responsibilities. He had one clear opportunity to create a goal but having beaten his marker for pace he put the ball across the goal but in between 2 forwards. He probably should have done better. Except for one very tired, careless pass to nobody, his passing was very accurate & he looked comfortable in possession.
The crowd got excited when he got the ball and he got good applause when he went off late in the game.
Doyle was less noticable. Did the simple things well & looks to have a very strong left foot.
I missed the game so cheers for that.
McGeady got 1 minute for a green & white hooped Scottish team at the weekend and Darren O'Dea was on the bench. I don't care what people say about Scottish football, it's really good that a teenage Irish defender is getting close to the first team at a good club.
(OK, I know this thread is "...Irish Players in England") but I thought it was worth a mention.
More from McGeady in his diary here - http://www.icons.com/mcgeady/diary.html?26.8.05 - basically he's disappointed at being dropped and working hard in the gym to build himself up so he doesn't get pushed over as easily
leicester v luton 0-2
McCarthy,Maybury and Connolly all played the 90. neither Logan or Sheehan featured.
this was a stinking game and the entire 11 under performed,Maybury played at leftback.Connolly didnt have any real oppertnities and McCarthy had done no worse than the rest till injury time when he under hit a back pass with a pacy striker on his shoulder and gave the guy a one on one with the keeper,the keeper got a glove on the ball as the player tried to round him and managed to get the striker turned away from goal but Paddy came in with a lunge,brought the guy down 4 a pen which made it 2-0.
this came in deep injury-time so didnt really matter to the result and he wasnt booked.
leicester v hull 1-1
Maybury,McCarthy and Connolly all played the 90. niether Sheehan or Logan made the 16.
Maybury played at leftback and was solid.he was captain in Tiattos abscence.
Connolly was busy and hit the post late on.
McCarthy got a right chasing in the first half as hull hit the post 3 times, but had a much improved 2nd and scored the equaliser from a back post header,his first league goal.he also hit the post with a header before that.he also managed to avoid a booking for the second game running.
interview with Paddy McCarthy about hull game and his first league goal.
Paddy McCarthy was delighted to score his first senior goal to secure Leicester City a hard-earned point at Hull. The defender stole in unmarked at the far post to meet a Richard Stearman cross and bring City level at 1-1.
It set up City for a period of late pressure that could have seen them come away from their first visit to the KC Stadium with all three points.
But McCarthy was happy to notch his first goal and save a point after City endured a difficult first half in which Hull hit the woodwork four times.
"Richard Stearman put a great ball in," said the Irishman. " It was right on the money. There was no way I was going to miss it. It's my first League goal and I am very happy with it."
He added: "I think we were happy with a point in the end. Before the game we would have wanted to win it.
"We feel we have enough quality to win games but overall I think a draw was a fair result."
The 22-year-old said the goal was almost a personal redemption after being sent off on his senior debut against Hull in November 2002.
McCarthy was dismissed while on loan at Boston from Manchester City during Hull's last win at Boothferry Park.
He was also pleased that he did not enter the referee's notebook after already picking up three bookings so far this season.
"Personally, it's nice to put things right with the goal," he said. "I got sent off in my first league game in Hull so it's nice to come back and put it right.
"I also didn't get booked. The gaffer had a word about it so that was pleasing."
McCarthy now joins the Rep-ublic of Ireland Under-21s for a game against France.
But his mind is already on City's next game against Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, September 10.
He said: "I can't wait for that game. We are looking forward to putting things right."
Here's the write-up of the Arsenal vs Leicester reserves match I didn't go to.
http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?a...-+Match+Report
Stokes didn't play so maybe just as well I didn't make it. Cregg scored for Arsenal, Matthew Connolly, recently capped Irish U19 international, partnered some guy called Sol Campbell at centre-back, Kelly & Stokes stayed on the bench. Conrad Logan came on as sub for Leicester after their fits keeper was sent off.
Stephen Ireland scored for Man City reserves in a 3-2 win over their Wigan counterparts. It was a fairly easy goal by all accounts, but I reckon this will put him back in the first team picture, Pearce mentioned him more than once as someone who had played into his thoughts in pre-season before he broke his wrist.
Man City report here
Wigan report here
Another trial for Saul Deeney.
http://skysports.planetfootball.com/...annel=league_1
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