Steve Heighway

[Superhoops]

The last Sunday game AFAIR was the one where Dunphy was substituted at half time against Austria, the only silver lining on that darkest of dark football days.
1970 or 1971
I'm sure Superhoops will pop up with the precise detail

Not quite that Austria game was Sunday 30th May 1971. We also played the away tie against Austria in that campaign on Sunday 10th October 1971.

Since then the following Home games have been played on Sundays:
21st October 1973 - Friendly - Poland in Dalymount
24th April 1977 - Friendly - Poland in Dalymount
26th May 1985 - Friendly - Spain in Flower Lodge, Cork
2nd June 1985 - WCQ - Switzerland in Lansdowne
22nd May 1988 - Friendly - Poland in Lansdowne
28th May 1989 - WCQ - Malta in Lansdowne
4th June 1989 - WCQ - Hungary in Lansdowne
5th June 1994 - Friendly - Czech Republic in Lansdowne
11th June 1995 - ECQ - Austria in Lansdowne
2nd June 1996 - Friendly - Croatia in Lansdowne
10th November 1996 - WCQ - Iceland in Lansdowne

There have also been several away games played on Sundays, friendlies, testimonials, invitation tournaments, EC and WC qualifers and of course in the WC and EC finals.

[geysir]

The point about the Sunday games re Steve Heighway had relevance if there was a league programme in England the day before.
I see from the date of the competitve Austria game that the league programme had finished in England, so Sunday was a good choice of day.
From that list, maybe only one or two friendlies against Poland followed a Saturday league game.

[Metrostars]

Yes, Steve Heighway plays it clean:

[tricky_colour]

Is it true that he made his Ireland debut before his Liverpool debut? - its mentioned on the youtube video link above.
Also, how come he won so few caps??

That youtube account has been closed but I expect it was this video about Heighway, and yet he did
make his Ireland début (pardon my French ) before before his Liverpool début well the video says so anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5kFPWAxZg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx5kFPWAxZg

[ArdeeBhoy]

Loads of players made their international debuts before club ones...back in the ​'olden days'.

[geysir]

Loads of players made their international debuts before club ones...back in the ​'olden days'.

Name a half load of them, then.

BTW, Heighway doesn't count. He made his Liverpool first team debut just before his first cap.

[Charlie Darwin]

There are probably a couple of recent ones. Surely Staunton capped a couple of players before their clubs did. Darren Potter, maybe?

[geysir]

Nope.
Maybe that college kid, but does he really exist?

[ArdeeBhoy]

Name a half load of them, then.

A good number of Leeds players back in the '70's...and Liverpool and numerous others. So what?

[Charlie Darwin]

If I don't see him, he doesn't exist.

Turns out from those Ecuador and Bolivia games, Joe O'Cearuill, Stephen Gleeson and Stephen O'Halloran (remember him?) had made their debuts on loan in the months previous. Still, all credit to Stan for unearthing hidden gems.

[Stuttgart88]

There are probably a couple of recent ones. Surely Staunton capped a couple of players before their clubs did. Darren Potter, maybe?

Staunton himself was a Euro 88 call up before he played for Liverpool. I think.

[geysir]

A good number of Leeds players back in the '70's...and Liverpool and numerous others. So what?

Offhand, I remember Giles being from Leeds in the 1970's. I don't recall any other Leeds player for us in the '70's.

From Liverpool, Beglin and Stan. Maybe a few others, here and there, scattered over the years, but not loads.

[Charlie Darwin]

Giles played for Manchester United before he was capped for Ireland.

[gastric]

Nope.
Maybe that college kid, but does he really exist?

Joey Lapira certainly exists! What about Terry Dixon?

[tetsujin1979]

There are probably a couple of recent ones. Surely Staunton capped a couple of players before their clubs did. Darren Potter, maybe?

Potter had appeared a few times for Liverpool before he was called up. Stephen O'Halloran was capped before he played for Villa

[geysir]

Stephen O'Halloran, the USA tour?
if a player turned up at the airport with his boots, Stan would have said 'yeah come along, you never know'.
I thought he was one of the great hopes at the time, but he picked up serious injury after serious injury before his senior career got off the ground.

Tets, any Leeds players capped in the '70s, apart from Giles of course?

[tetsujin1979]

Stephen O'Halloran, the USA tour?
if a player turned up at the airport with his boots, Stan would have said 'yeah come along, you never know'.
I thought he was one of the great hopes at the time, but he picked up serious injury after serious injury before his senior career got off the ground.

Tets, any Leeds players capped in the '70s, apart from Giles of course?

not sure, don't think there was any prominent Leeds players anyway
From the 100 greatest Leeds players on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...A.F.C._players - only Giles features from the 70's

[ArdeeBhoy]

There were, just not for Ireland.
Terry Yorath, David Harvey & Frank Gray spring to mind...
Though not Googled before the pedants get excited!

[Drumcondra 69er]

Staunton himself was a Euro 88 call up before he played for Liverpool. I think.

Stan wasn't in the Euro 88 squad.

Was always a decent question, who were the only players to make all 3 squads in 88, 90 and 94. There's 9 if memory serves.....

[peadar1987]

Bonner, McGrath, Townsend, Aldridge? Peyton? Sheedy? Sheridan? Maybe Cascarino?