David McGoldrick's tenth goal for Sheffield United, Anthony Pilkington's debut assist for Wigan, Seamus Coleman's 250th start for Everton, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...84914464509673
Checked this out, there was one other time when four players scored on the same day, it was 5th May 2001 - Carr, Kilbane, Quinn, and Harte all scored
There's been only one day when five Irish players scored, 29th August 1992 - Lee Power, Eddie McGoldrick, Niall Quinn, Mike Milligan, and Ronnie Whelan
If it wasn't for bad luck, Rob Elliot would have no luck at all. Last week, Derby Co. were reportedly having a look at him. Now, according to the Evening Chronicle, he has sustained a back injury and NUFC's hopes of selling him "have gone up in smoke with the player potentially requiring an operation". Elliot is on contract until June 2020, but Benitez wanted to off-load him.
Five players' debuts for their new clubs, Paddy Madden's 90th goal in League One, Shaun Williams' 200th start for Millwall and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...62347144394043
Unusually, no Irish substitutes in the FA Cup today, i.e everyone starts.
http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Live
On BBC 1 tonight it is Millwall v Everton in the FA Cup. The commentator asked the co commentator Kevin Kilbane about
Millwall's Irish international Shaun williams and his FAI cup winners medal with Sporting Fingal. needless to say Kevin had not got a clue about Sporting fingal,never heard of them nodoubt.
So what if he hasn't?
I reckon I'd know people in Dublin who have never heard of Sporting Fingal. Is this a new gut test for second generation players - unless they know all the defunct LoI teams of their lifetime they should be looked on with suspicion? Anyway, can you imagine the damage to the league's reputation if Killer's answer had included words like vanity project, wild west regulation, developers, bankrupt, crazy league, only one of many, and (the shame!) happened on John Delaney's watch...?
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Anthony Forde's 100th appearance for Rotherham United Football Club, Alan Browne's 20th Sky Bet Championship goal, Tommie Hoban returns after surgery, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...00424947884628
Andy Keogh's 50th goal in the A-League, Jeff Hendrick's 100th appearance for Burnley, Matt Doherty's 250th career start and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...00222221415344
Conor Henderson's first appearance in Romania, Aidan Keena's first goal for Hearts, Jonathan Hayes' first booking since August 2017, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...76033338378783
Keenan bagged a hat trick then today for Hearts' reserves. One to watch.
https://twitter.com/JamTarts/status/...890427400?s=19
The 60th goal of Aiden McGeady's career, Josh Cullen's 100th career appearance, Connor Ronan's first appearance in Slovakia, and more in the weekend round up: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...67965743990384
A hat-trick for Simon Cox, earning a draw for Southend, who were 0-3 down to Portsmouth.
Michael Obafemi, Adam Idah, Luca Connell and Troy Parrott named in the first twenty of FourFourTwo's 50 most exciting teenagers in English football: https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...glish-football
A brief history of formerly Irish dual nationalists: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Blog...44964256880597
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