Irish involvement in UK pre-season 2018/19

**backstothewall** · 24/07/2018, 1:22 PM

I reckon a Villa v Man City game in 93-94 would have to be close. Likely we had 7 full internationals on the pitch if it was before Quinner did his knee.

Staunton
Mcgrath
Townsend
Houghton
Phelan
Kernaghan
Quinn

**DeLorean** · 24/07/2018, 2:12 PM

The F.A. Cup final in 1979 included eight starters and a manager from the island of Ireland. I know that doesn't count but still! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_FA_Cup_Final

**DeLorean** · 24/07/2018, 2:18 PM

Originally Posted by backstothewall

I reckon a Villa v Man City game in 93-94 would have to be close. Likely we had 7 full internationals on the pitch if it was before Quinner did his knee.

Staunton
Mcgrath
Townsend
Houghton
Phelan
Kernaghan
Quinn

Villa Park (3) - http://www.skysports.com/football/a-...an-city/275973
Maine Road (2) - http://www.skysports.com/football/ma...a-villa/276043

**Closed Account** · 24/07/2018, 2:52 PM

https://twitter.com/irish_abroad/sta...39984278982656
Tets has it covered last year and his research may have been used for this article but hard to prove:
http://www.the42.ie/tracing-the-marg...omment-6400713

**Closed Account** · 24/07/2018, 2:59 PM

Of course that was Premier League, briefly before that game, Tets again had done the research for other divisions:

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

Best I can find in the Irish Abroad database in the Premier League is Man City VS Sunderland from 2007 with 6 players
5-Nov-2007
Manchester City 1-0 Sunderland
Manchester City's starting players: Richard Dunne Stephen Ireland
Sunderland's starting players: Ian Harte Anthony Stokes(substituted on 58 minutes) Liam Miller Daryl Murphy(substituted on 58 minutes)
Sunderland's substitutes: Graham Kavanagh David Connolly

Overall, the most players I have is nine starting players in two separate games - Sunderland - Luton in 2007 and Ipswich - Scunthorpe in 2010
13-Mar-2010
Ipswich 1-0 Scunthorpe
Ipswich's starting players: David Norris Damien Delaney Brian Murphy Jonathan Walters Owen Garvan(substituted on 74 minutes) Daryl Murphy(substituted on 50 minutes) Shane O'Connor
Scunthorpe's starting players: Joe Murphy Cliff Byrne
Scunthorpe's substitutes: Donal McDermott

9-Dec-2006
Sunderland 2-1 Luton
Sunderland's starting players: Stephen Elliott Liam Miller Graham Kavanagh David Connolly(substituted on 78 minutes) Daryl Murphy
Luton's starting players: Dean Kiely Kevin Foley Lewis Emanuel David Bell

**tetsujin1979** · 24/07/2018, 3:09 PM

Norris is a bit of a stretch, he was supposed to have been scouted by Staunton, but either he refused the call up, or he wasn't eligible

**Demesne Lad** · 24/07/2018, 9:14 PM

Richie Towell started in Brighton's 1 -1 draw away to Charlton, but was injured after 36 mins and substituted.

**samhaydenjr** · 24/07/2018, 9:33 PM

Originally Posted by Demesne Lad

Richie Towell started in Brighton's 1 -1 draw away to Charlton, but was injured after 36 mins and substituted.

Hopefully not serious - promising news that Hughton started him. Mandroiu and Connolly came on as second-half subs for the second game in a row, which is also promising - Connolly had a couple of chances saved by the Charlton keeper: https://www.brightonandhovealbion.co...lton-athletic/

Having signed for Sheffield united mere hours before, David McGoldrick scored in the 1-1 draw with Inter - CALL HIM BACK UP, MON!! John Egan and Enda Stevens also played for United, while Ryan Nolan was an unused sub for Inter: https://www.inter.it/en/news/63487/i...ld-with-a-draw

**tetsujin1979** · 24/07/2018, 10:07 PM

that's a bit odd, Towell was named on the bench for a friendly Brighton had earlier today against Portsmouth, although he didn't play in that

**tetsujin1979** · 25/07/2018, 12:35 PM

Troy Parrott played for Spurs U23 side yesterday, despite being only 16

**Demesne Lad** · 25/07/2018, 4:31 PM

Towell has back trouble, it seems; club more concerned about Locadia, who has a groin strain.

**samhaydenjr** · 25/07/2018, 10:06 PM

Jake Doyle-Hayes started for Villa alongside Conor Hourihane and Glenn Whelan as they took on a West Ham team, for whom Declan Rice played the first half and Josh Cullen was a second-half sub

https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/...ston-villa-win

**Colbert Report** · 26/07/2018, 12:18 AM

Caoimhin Kelleher - anyone know anything about him? On the bench for Liverpool tonight in their friendly against Manchester City.

**tommy_c12000** · 26/07/2018, 2:59 AM

Originally Posted by Colbert Report

Caoimhin Kelleher - anyone know anything about him? On the bench for Liverpool tonight in their friendly against Manchester City.

Young goalkeeper from cork. Highly rated by Klopp according to report last season: http://www.punditarena.com/football/...-kelleher/amp/ Nice to see him get some preseason game time at his young age.

His brother Fiacre is a center half moved to Celtic when younger, now with oxford. Did well on loan with solihull in conference last season, but unfortunately has already been farmed out in another season long loan to league 2 newcomers Macclesfield, augurs not well at age of 22. You never know though, tall uncompromising center half

**samhaydenjr** · 26/07/2018, 3:35 AM

Originally Posted by Colbert Report

Caoimhin Kelleher - anyone know anything about him? On the bench for Liverpool tonight in their friendly against Manchester City.

Thanks for the heads-up - great to see that he replaced Karius for the second-half and appears to have done well, making at least one good save as Liverpool went on to win 2-1; https://www.liverpoolfc.com/match/20...-2018-day-five

Kelleher is a young Irish keeper (age 19) who has underage caps under his belt - I saw him on a highlights package on the FAI site for an U-17s game, I think, a few years ago and he looked raw but made a couple of remarkable saves. Liverpool signed him up a little while after and he's been alternating between their U18 and U23 teams in competition with a young Polish keeper called Kamil Grabara, who played the second half against Borussia Dortmund recently. Kelleher also played the second half against Blackburn recently so this should be a cause for excitement, particularly as Liverpool are shedding goalies -Danny Ward sold to Leicester, Adam Bogdan on season-long loan to Hibs and either Mignolet or Karius likely to be sold also.

However, his position does mitigate any belief that he'll see significant action soon, as he's not going to get run-outs in the last 20 minutes of a game, like an outfielder can - if he's not first-choice, he'll have to wait for either an injury or major loss of form to the first-choice, which brings us to the other reason why we can't get as excited about his appearances as we might - Alisson

Still, it's quite an achievement to play twice in a pre-season for the Liverpool first team at the age of 19, the second game in front of 52,000 against Man City (and get two wins under your belt). So hopefully it's a sign that he'll get competitive first-team football sooner rather than later, either with a loan move or some game-time in the cups this season.

For now here's the save he made tonight:

https://youtu.be/AVnLWNZcV9o?t=201

**Bungle** · 26/07/2018, 6:44 AM

http://www.punditarena.com/football/...es-bayern-bow/

One to watch. Think Sweden are hovering though.

**Cathalsmart** · 26/07/2018, 7:10 AM

Luxembourg have him, apparently they are paying him big bucks to stay, seen as their potential gem

**tetsujin1979** · 26/07/2018, 9:08 AM

Originally Posted by samhaydenjr

Jake Doyle-Hayes started for Villa alongside Conor Hourihane and Glenn Whelan as they took on a West Ham team, for whom Declan Rice played the first half and Josh Cullen was a second-half sub

https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/...ston-villa-win

Villa have been putting their preseason games on YouTube, here's the West Ham game