The Saint (Vol 34 #10)

2022 Premier Division • Vol. 34 • No. 10 • €4.00 Richmond Park, Inchicore, Dublin 8 • KO:7.45PM

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Editorial

Ronan O’Flaherty

Ruairi Kavanagh

@stpatsprogramme

Good Evening Welcome back to Richmond Park for the second

at least inject some drama into the closing

time in 96 hours! A quick turnaround for the

moments. While both results were disappointing,

team and also for the programme team, shoutout

we undoubtedly have tools in our arsenal to stop

to Joe in particular for managing to get the

these situations from occurring. Our defending

designs in place for the edition you hold in your

from set pieces, which went awry late on Friday,

hands tonight, and also to all our contributors,

has generally been good and we do have decent

and of course you for buying.

impact subs on the bench. I suppose both games also illustrated the importance of taking chances,

Speaking of 96 hours, it was quite bluntly a

which we were sadly unable to do.

dispiriting 72 hours between Friday and Monday night. Being unable to make the game in

Anyway, each game brings fresh hope and we

Ballybofey, I put away the phone after seeing the

really need the three points on offer tonight. Get

clock tick into 94 minutes. A hard fought 2-1, so it

behind the lads and stay positive, there are a big

seemed. That'll teach me. Then on Monday, we

few weeks ahead.

grappled gamely with Rovers for most of the game before they took two chances in rapid

Come on the Saints,

succession, both of which were preventable. The late introduction of Tunde Owolabi injected

Ruairi Kavanagh

much needed pep in our step, almost led to an

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immediate goal and then provided a late peno to

The Saint

Contents 08 Oh my Word!

16 Irish Hat Tricks

11 Dodge’s Data!

20 Eurozone

13 Opposition Watch

22 A View from Afar

15 Pensive Points

24 Club History

Programme Production Editor Ruairi Kavanagh

Design Joe O’Rourke

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Saints v Drogheda United St Patrick’s Athletic Manager:

Fáilte Tá áthas orainn fáilte a chur roimh mbainistíocht, imreoirí agus lucht tacaíochta Chlub Pheile Droighead Átha Áontaithe go Phairc Richmond anocht.

Welcome We are pleased to welcome the management, players and supporters of Drogheda United Football Club to Richmond Park tonight.

Tim Clancy

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Asst Manager: Jon Daly

Kevin Doherty

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President’s Welcome Tom O’Mahony

@jimmyedwards41

Good Evening You’re very welcome to Richmond Park for this evening’s game – and we especially welcome the players, officials and supporters of Drogheda United.

As you know, there’s something of a geographical imbalance in the Premier Division this year. Last week’s trip to Ballybofey leaves us with just one remaining long journey in the league, and that visit to Sligo doesn’t come till the end of October. Before then, our league schedule from tonight onwards features eight games in Dublin with two short trips to County Louth. Given our home draw in the FAI Cup, our only certain trip out of Dublin for the next ten weeks is the excursion to Slovenia or Moldova for the Europa Conference League.

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HONOURS

That ten week period may be the making or breaking of our season. At the end of it we want to be strongly placed for European qualification and still in the FAI Cup. In our incredibly competitive league, results are decided by fine margins, as we saw last week in Ballybofey where a dominant performance for 88 minutes was undone by two late goals which gave Finn Harps a share of the points for which they must still be pinching themselves. We also see it in the fact that almost all of the matches we have lost this season have been by a single goal.

A mid-season stocktake would have to acknowledge that so far we have been good but not great. However, looking at the matches where points have been dropped, it’s also true that in most cases the margins that went against us were very small indeed. This gives us hope that as a largely new team beds in further, and with the additions we are making to the squad in this transfer window, we can turn the balance of those margins in our favour.

The fact that the majority of the upcoming games are at home and almost all the others are easily accessible for supporters means that the traditional “twelfth man” may have a large part to play in making the necessary difference. We’ve had brilliant levels of support so far this season and if we can maintain that in the coming months I’m very hopeful that we’ll have an enjoyable and successful second half of the season.

In the meantime, enjoy tonight’s game.

Tom O'Mahony President St Patrick's Athletic FC 2022 Season • Vol. 34 • No.10 • St Patrick’s Athletic v Drogheda United

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Ronan O’Flaherty

Tim Clancy

Games are coming thick and fast at the moment.

After Monday's defeat against Shamrock Rovers, we are happy to return to action within four days. When you lose a game, the first thing you want to do is bounce back as quickly as possible.

That was exactly how we all felt – players and staff – as we walked off the pitch towards the dressing rooms on Monday.

Shamrock Rovers are, of course, a quality team. The fact that they're chasing their third league title in succession says it all. But we know we have the measure of them on our day and the players were very disappointed not to get a positive result on this occasion.

We were again blown away by the size of the crowd. It was reminiscent of the game against Rovers earlier in the season, when there wasn’t a spare seat in the ground. To pack this place out on a Monday night shows that St Patrick’s Athletic, and the League of Ireland in general, is going in the right direction.

I felt there was very little between the teams in the first half. If anything, we were

the better team and caused them quite a few problems on the attack. In the second half, they were clinical with their opportunities and that was the key difference, although elements of our defending also left a lot to be desired.

Sometimes there are very small margins in these games and we are working hard to ensure that those margins favour us. A few nights before taking on Rovers, we came away from Ballybofey with one point when it really should have been three. To concede two goals so late in the game was an absolute sickener.

Having built a 2-0 lead courtesy of Billy King's brace, the players should have seen out the victory. They were better than Harps for the bulk of the contest and probably should have scored a few more. Both of Harps' goals came from set pieces – an area we know they are strong in. Our defending of those set-pieces was nowhere near good enough and the team paid a heavy price for that. It was a costly lesson, but one we have

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analysed and set about putting right on the training ground.

Tonight we welcome Drogheda United to Richmond Park, who are unbeaten in five and come into the game high on confidence. I would like to extend a warm welcome to Kevin Doherty, his players and everyone associated with Drogheda United who has made the journey to Inchicore.

The last time we took on Drogheda, at Head In The Game Park in May, we came away from it with a 4-0 victory. We were particularly good that evening and while I of course don’t envisage the same scoreline this evening, our aim is another victory.

After the disappointment of the last two games, it’s important that we put another three points on the board. Drogheda will have similar intentions so our players need to be at their best, which I am confident they will be.

Enjoy the match, Tim Clancy

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Oh My Word!

Ronan O’Flaherty

When you can't make it along to the game, choose your update service wisely.

There was a time when no choice existed; teletext or nothing.

Sports bulletins on TV and radio could not be relied upon to even acknowledge a game was taking place.

Those of a certain vintage will have '222' imprinted upon their memory like a tattoo. Aertel's latest-scores page wasn't always reliable but when it's all you have, you keep coming back to it.

To its credit, the service did improve over the years. There was a time when scorelines still showed up as 'latest' long after the final whistle had sounded. In the blink of an eye, the page would reload and a game that had seemingly been scoreless all night suddenly ended up being a five-goal thriller with three sendings off.

At the end of the 1994/95 campaign, Bohemians went into their last game knowing that a two-goal victory against Sligo Rovers at the Showgrounds would secure their place in the following season's Intertoto Cup. If they failed to do that, St Patrick's would get the European spot. Needless to say, a night of patient teletext viewing awaited.

That it had even come to this felt wrong. The "final" day of the season had taken place two days earlier, on Sunday, April 23. It

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proved to be an afternoon of memorable drama.

Derry City went into it as pipinghot favourites to get over the line and clinch the title. Victory over lowly Athlone Town at St Mel's Park would seal the deal for the Candystripes. Hoping for an upset, or even just a draw in Athlone, was second-placed Shelbourne. They would have to keep up their end of the bargain against Brian Kerr's Saints. In the unlikely scenario that both Derry and Shels fluffed their lines, thirdplaced Dundalk were waiting to pounce. And pounce they did.

going masses. They are impressively good services that deliver updates on goals and sendings off as they happen. Not everyone is a fan of them. Sellers of transistor radios have an understandable gripe.

In a seemingly ubiquitous environment where people are shutting off from the real world in favour of a virtual alternative, these apps break the mould by supplying content for healthy, real-life terrace talk. We recall the scene on the Camac Terrace a fortnight ago.

"Rovers are one down in Oriel."

1-1 draws at St Mel's and Tolka Park ensured that Dundalk's 2-0 home victory over Galway United was a league-winning triumph. It was a thrilling way for the season to finish. Only, the season didn't end that day.

"No way. Who scored it?"

"Our old friend Benson."

"Any change in the other games?"

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"No; Bohs are still beating Shels 1-0 but they're down to ten men.

Derry are still 1-0 up at home to Drogheda. I expected them to be winning by more. Wait a second – scrap that! Drogheda have just equalised through Dean Williams from the penalty spot. It seems the worst thing that ever happened to Derry was beating Pat's 4-0. And what's this! More drama at Oriel Park as Ronan Finn has been sent off."

Livescore and Flashscore are the apps of choice for the match-

"Can't imagine they had too much sympathy for him; former

A rescheduled fixture at the Showgrounds would have to be played two days later. Sligo had nothing to play for. Bohs had European football in their sights and knew what they had to do to secure it. For Saints fans still licking their wounds following Stephen Geoghegan's injury-time equaliser, a date with teletext lay in wait.

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@ronanoflaherty club and all that. What about the First Division? Any sign of Bray's fortunes improving?"

"David Hurley has just slotted home from the penalty spot to make it 5-1 to Galway United."

"So that would be a no, then?"

"That would most certainly be a no."

"Any more changes in the Premier Division games?"

"I'm calling a halt to this. The vidiprinter is off until full-time." ***** A sense of foreboding clouded the room as I gripped the Philips TV remote control and pressed down firmly on the teletext button. I had a feeling this would work out badly on two fronts: Bohs would get the two-goal victory they needed, but I might not receive confirmation until long after the game had ended.

By 8pm, with the game 15 minutes old, my worst fears were materialising. Instead of displaying the latest score, the match was still listed as a fixture that was due to start at 7.45pm.

Undeterred, I turned on the radio in the hope of an update from an on-the-hour bulletin. That failed to even yield an acknowledgement that the game was taking place. Standard fare. It did, however, mention that Ireland had trained in Clonshaugh ahead of the next day's Euro 96 qualifier

against Portugal at Lansdowne Road.

ago, in the 63rd and 76th minutes. That was Aertel for you.

People didn't have many nice things to say about the Intertoto Cup. They were calling it a Mickey Mouse European competition. I paid little notice. European football is European football. The last time St Patrick's had qualified for Europe was five years earlier, when I was six. Now 11 turning 12, this football-team-supporting business was well on the way to becoming an obsession.

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At some stage in the first half, Sligo Rovers versus Bohemians was finally acknowledged as an in-progress fixture. The appearance of the letters 'HT' next to the scoreline provided welcome reassurance that it was definitely scoreless at half-time.

When 'HT' remained in position for the next half-hour, we became concerned. The radio was again of little use. The offending twoletter symbol eventually vanished from the screen. As the game entered stoppage time, it remained scoreless. Time added on seemed to last an age. Surely it was over.

Thoughts of the Intertoto Cup flooded the mind. "Why is it even called that?" "Is it anything to do with Toto Schillaci?"

And then the page reloaded. The information was a sucker punch.

In winning 2-0, Bohs had done what they needed to do. The goals, both of which were scored

by Tony Cousins, arrived long

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The days of relying on teletext were dropped into room 101 many moons ago. Nothing beats being there but if you can't make it along, seeking out updates is a doddle. It's not just Livescore and Flashscore, of course. It's all there on Twitter too, with added opinions thrown in for no extra charge. And even if you miss all of that, a WhatsApp message will probably flash up on your phone confirming the good or bad news.

Last Friday, the trip to Finn Park wasn't a runner. I was none the wiser when a WhatsApp message from a friend, apparently masquerading as a results service, appeared on the phone. "Nice 20 win up in Ballybofey," it stated, along with emojis of a football, a flexed bicep and a pint of beer.

Great, I thought. But then a glance at the time made it clear that all was not as it seemed. A tap on the Livescore app confirmed that not only was the game still on, but Harps had pulled a late goal back through José Carrillo. Deep into injury time they levelled through Ethan Boyle. The nice 2-0 win up in Ballybofey had morphed into a 22 draw.

It was Intertoto revisited, sort of.

Choose your update service wisely.

Any views expressed in this article are the contributor's own.

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Dodge’s Data!Ronan O’Flaherty John Owens

@seidodge

LEAGUE RECORD V DROGHEDA UNITED HOME GAMES

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Head in the Game Park

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MOLLOY ON THE DOUBLE TWO goals from Trevor Molloy helped St Patrick's Athletic begin their season on a high note in the Super Cup semi final at Turners Cross last night. Molloy scored after I8 minutes when he was sent clear by Martin Russell and then fired home the second from the penalty spot after 76 minutes. Referee Dick O’Hanlon awarded the penalty when he harshly adjudged Colin O'Brien as having fouled Pat's sub Des Byrne.

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Ronan O’Flaherty Safety at Richmond Park Stadium Regulations • All persons entering the stadium are admitted only subject to the following ground regulations and to the regulations of the Football Association. Entry to the ground shall be deemed to constitute unqualified acceptance of all these rules and regulations.

• There is a no smoking policy in effect in both stands.

• The climbing of walls, floodlight pylons, stands or any structure inside theg round is strictly forbidden.

• Any persons found damaging or defacing the property of St Patrick’s Athletic FC will be liable to prosecution.

• Firework, smoke canisters, bottles, glasses, cans, flags, banners, poles, flares and any other articles or containers which could or might be used as a weapon or likely to cause a nuisance to other people in the stadium are not permitted within the stadium and any person in possession of such an article or container may be refused entry or ejected from the stadium.

• Any excessive noise, such as that from the use of radio sets megaphones and/or behaviour likely to cause confusion or nuisance i.e.: Laser lights of any kind is not permitted inside the stadium.

• Foul or abusive language is not permitted inside the stadium and will result in ejection from the stadium.

• Children under 12 years of age must be accompanied by an Adult and that adult must accept respon sibility for those in his/her charge.

• No form of racist abuse will be tolerated inside the stadium and will result in ejection from the stadium and may result in a prosecution by An Garda. St Patrick's Athletic shows the red card to racism.

• Spectators are not permitted to bring alcohol or any banned substances into the stadium.

• Any person who does not comply with instructions from a steward may be ejected from the stadium.

• In general, the right of admission is reserved to the Club Management of St Patrick’s Athletic FC. • St Patrick’s Athletic FC reserves the right to refuse admission or eject any person from the stadium who refuses to be searched by a police officer.

• Any person who blocks, or obstructs a gangway in any way and refuses to move on request may be ejected from the stadium.

• St Patrick’s Athletic FC reserves the right for its servants or agents to remove from the stadium any person who does not comply with the stadium regulations or whose presence inside the stadium could reasonably be construed as a source of danger, nuisance or annoyance to any spectator.

Safety Notice • St Patrick’s Athletic Football Club are committed to ensuring the safety of all spectators at Richmond Park.

It is therefore important that the following information is read and strictly adhered to.

• Anyone requiring medical attention during the game should alert their nearest steward or club official and will be directed to the St John’s Ambulance attendant or First Aid Room.

• Parents, Guardians or any adult responsible for children inside the stadium should ensure that children are supervised at all times.

• Cigarettes should be properly extinguished as they can be a major cause of fire.

• The use of flares inside the stadium is strictly forbidden.

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In the event of an emergency at Richmond Park requiring evacuation of the ground in part or whole, spectators are requested to remain where they are and listen for announcements over the public address system. The announcements may direct spectators in a specific area of the ground, or the stadium as a whole, to evacuate the through exit gates to the outside of the stadium, or through perimeter gates onto the pitch. Club stewards and members of the Garda Siochana will assist in directing spectators. If requested to vacate a specified area of the ground, spectators should do so as calmly and quickly as possible to assist in a safe and speedy evacuation. Do not, under any circumstances, re-enter an evacuated area. Please take note of your nearest exit.

EMMET ROAD

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Ronan O’Flaherty Opposition Watch Paul Maguire Before the start of the 2022 season,. Drogheda had to cope with the departure of the likes of James Brown, David Odumosu, Hugh Douglas, Conor Kane, Joe Redmond, Daniel O’Reilly and Mark Doyle heading for pastures new in the offseason.

Of course our manager Tim Clancy also departed, joining Odumosu, Doyle and Redmond here at Richmond Park. The Louth side have been boosted by the signings of players like Adam Foley, Ryan Brennan, Dylan Grimes, Sean Roughan, Dayle Rooney and Scotland under-21 goalkeeper Sam Long. While new manager Kevin Doherty was able to resign ten players from last year

Kevin Doherty

@PaulGoS but an indication of the upheaval is that Dane Massey is the only survivor from last season's defensive unit.

Like the Saints, tonight’s visitors have found it hard to maintain a rhythm this season, but a poor start found them pulled towards the bottom end of the table, but relegation is not even a remote threat. They sit ten points ahead of secondbottom Finn Harps and 13 ahead of bottom placed UCD. Despite their sporadic form, Drogs visit Inchicore tonight in good form, unbeaten in five games, their last reverse coming in a 1-0 defeat away to Shelbourne.

Since then, they have beaten Finn Harps 3-1, which they followed up with a remarkable 1-0 win over Shamrock Rovers, with former Saints (and returning Drog) Ryan Brennan netting the winner.

They followed that up with a solid 1-1 away to Bohemians, Dean Williams scoring an 84th minute leveller. They returned from the mid-season break in solid form too, again coming from behind away from home, earning a 1-1 in the Brandywell against Derry, Dean Williams again on the

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scoresheet, with a later equaliser from the penalty spot. Their most recent result was a 0-0 at home to Sligo Rovers on June 24th.

Against the Saints this season, they have drawn one and lost one. The latter was a 0-4 reverse in Head in the Game Park on May 6th, and one of the Saints finest displays of the season. Darragh Burns opened the scoring for the visitors in the 4th minute, with Eoin Doyle doubling the lead in the 26th minute. In the second half, Billy King secured the points on 70 minutes before Kyle Robinson scored with his first touch on 86 minutes after coming on as sub just one minute earlier.

The first encounter of the season was a far tighter affair at Richmond Park. Dayle Rooney gave Drogs the lead on 18 minutes and a solid display frustrated the Saints for much of the game. Darragh Burns restored parity on 78 minutes but a draw was more than a fair result for the visitors.

It should be another tight game this evening.

Any views expressed in this article are the contributor's own.

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Pensive PointsRonan O’Flaherty Jimmy Edwards

@jimmyedwards41

Good Evening, Welcome to Kevin Doherty and all from

Finn Harps got themselves back into the game

Drogheda United to tonight's game in

in the 88th minute when Carrillo poked home

Richmond Park. Drogheda are on a good run of

and then they grabbed the equaliser in the 96th

form and are unbeaten in their last five games

minute when Eathan Boyle powered his header

with some very impressive results in that run

into the roof of the net in a crowded box that

including a home win v Shamrock Rovers and an

included the Harps keeper as they threw

away point v Derry along the way so confidence

everyone up for the last kick of the game to

will be high in the Drogheda dressing room so

snatch a point, special mention to Anto Breslin

we will have to be at our maximum best if we

who was terrific in this game.

are to get the three points tonight.

We then played Shamrock Rovers last Monday We played Finn Harps away last Friday and it

here in Richmond, the first half was an open

was a disappointing result in the end that

game but with no real clear cut chances for

definitely didn't reflect the performance on the

either side as both defences were on their

night because we could and should have won

game. The second half went the way of Rovers

the game quite easily given the amount of

as they scored 2 goals through Andy Lyon's and

chances we created on the night but we didn't

Aaron Greene.

convert some gilt edged chances that came our way.

Lyon's finishing off a good move at the back post and Aaron Greene scoring a good

Billy King scored two fine goals on the night, the

individual goal. Altogether it must be said the

first in the 6th minute when he stabbed home

defending for that goal was below par. We

from a lovely cutback from Mark Doyle and then

grabbed a late goal back through an Eoin Doyle

his second came in the 64th minute when he cut

penalty after Tunde Owalabi was taken down in

inside from the right and skipped past a couple

the box. Final score 2-1 to Rovers. Let's hope for

of players and then guided his shot into the far

an entertaining game tonight with plenty of

corner from outside the box leaving the Harps

goals.

keeper flat footed who could only watch as the ball flew into the net and Mark Doyle also with

Enjoy the Game,

the assist for that goal.

Up the Saints, Jimmy

Any views expressed in this article are the contributor's own.

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Eight players have scored 12 Irish hat-tricks Seán Creedon Callum Robinson was in the news at the end of last year when he revealed that he hadn’t been vaccinated against Covid-19. Then he put that controversy behind him when he scored twice in the 3-0 away win over Azerbaijan and the following week got a hattrick in the 4-0 win over Qatar at the Aviva.

Flood, who played for Shamrock Rovers, also scored in our next game, a 3-1 win over Belgium in Parc Astrid, Brussels. He won only five caps, but four goals in five caps was not bad going.

We were well able to compete with the Belgians back then and it was ‘Les Diables Rouges’ (Red Devils), who provided the opposition for our first-ever competitive game, a World Cup qualifier at Dalymount in February 1934.

Robinson is only the eight Irish player to score a hat trick while two players, Paddy Moore and Don Givens both scored four goals in senior internationals for their country. Robbie Keane got three hat-tricks to make it 12 hat-tricks by eight different players.

The game ended in a 4-4 draw and Paddy Moore, then with Aberdeen, made history when he became the first-ever player to score four goals in a World Cup game. Paddy, who had played with Shamrock Rovers before moving to Scotland, returned to Dublin and rejoined The Hoops. He won nine caps, scoring seven goals.

However, injury and alcoholism combined to blight his career

Our first-ever hat-trick was scored by John Joe Flood in the 4-0 win over Belgium at Dalymount Park on April 20, 1929. It was a friendly and only our fourth international under the auspices of the newly formed FAI.

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and the Ballybough native was only 41 when he died in July 1951.

It would be over 40 years before another Irish player would get a hat-trick, but it was worth waiting for.

On October 30, 1974 Don Givens scored all three goals in the 3-0 win over the mighty USSR in a European Championship qualifier at Dalymount. Three hundred and sixty four days later Givens went one better and scored all four goals in the 4-0 European Championship win over Turkey at the famous Phibsboro venue. Givens won 56 caps and scored 19 goals during his career.

He held the Irish goalscoring record from 1980 to 1990 when it was broken by Frank Stapleton against Malta in June 1990.

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David Kelly won’t forget his Irish debut when he got a hattrick in the 5-0 win over Israel at Dalymount Park in November 1987. Kelly scored in the 41st and 56th minute and completed his hat-trick with a penalty in the 71st minute.

Games against Liechtenstein don’t bring back happy memories, but David Connolly will remember the World Cup qualifier against the minnows at Lansdowne in May 1997 when he got his hat-trick in a 5-0 win. Connolly, then with Watford, was winning the 6th cap of his 41 caps that day.

Tony Cascarino, who was winning his 70th cap, scored the other two goals.

John Aldridge’s third goal also came from the penalty spot in the first of his two hat-tricks.

That was against Turkey in a European Championship qualifier at Lansdowne Road in October 1990.

Robbie Keane is our record goal scorer with 68 goals and no surprise to learn that the Tallaght native got three hattricks.

Two years later Aldo got his second hat-trick, also at Lansdowne, in a 4-0 World Cup qualifying game against Latvia.

Kevin Sheehy opened the scoring in the 30th minute, then Aldridge got his first on 59 minutes, his second was from the penalty spot after 82 minutes and he completed his hat-trick on 86 minutes.

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Robbie went home with match ball for the first time following the 5-0 win over San Marino at Lansdowne in November 2006.

Two of Robbie’s goals were headers and in between there was a penalty. Robbie was then with Spurs and was winning his 70th cap.

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Keane’s second hat-trick came when he scored all three in the 3-0 win over the Faroes Island in June 2013. Then in October 2014 Robbie had his hat-trick completed after just 18 minutes in the 7-0 win over Gibraltar at what was by then known as the Aviva. He scored in the 6th and 14th minutes and got his third in the 18th minute from the penalty spot to bring his goals total to 65 in 136 games.

Against Qatar last October Callum Robinson got his first goal after four minutes; then he converted a penalty on 13 minutes and completed his hat-trick at the Havelock Square end on 53 minutes.

All 12 hat-tricks were scored in Dublin, eight at Dalymount Park and four at Lansdowne Road/Aviva.

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Eurozone Seán Brennan

I Ragazzi Irlandesi On the Trail of Liam Brady

Brady converting the penalty that would win Juve the Scudetto With new options opening up for Irish players in Italy, we take a look at them and the one player who represents the barometer of success for the Irish in Italia.

The news last week of Liam Kerrigan’s transfer to Serie B side Como has come as less of a shock and more of a sign of a very welcome emerging trend; that young Irish players are opting more and more for continental clubs to extend their development.

He won’t be alone in his new environment. Fellow underage

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internationals Kevin Zefi (Internazionale), Cathal Heffernan (AC Milan) and our own James Abankwah (Udinese) have all recently made the switch to Italy, as well as Louise Quinn having had a spell with Fiorentina.

Interestingly, it is an unintended consequence of the “£350 million to the NHS” red bus that Italian scouts are researching in Ireland; European teenagers are no longer allowed move alone to the UK, thus forcing Irish prospects to look beyond the bright lights of Doncaster and Peterborough.

Italian’s perceptions of Irish footballers are likely to be quite limited; the number of Irish players in Serie A has been minimal. The outstanding example however was the tricky attacking midfielder Liam Brady.

The player whose alleged school expulsion for playing soccer over Gaelic football garnered national media attention was in the midst of a successful career at Arsenal in the late 1970s. Following The Gunners’ defeat of Juventus in the 1980 Cup Winner’s Cup semi final, the Bianconeri paid

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£500,000 to secure his services, Brady being Juve’s first foreign signing since the lifting of a player import ban that year.

His impact was immediate.

Two seasons in Turin led to two Scudetti, with Brady contributing 15 goals from midfield in that time, including scoring the winner from the spot kick away to Catanzaro to allow Juve pip Fiorentina to the title on the final day of the season. Brady at this point had already been told he was on his way out of the club, but took pride in fulfilling his duties. Reflecting on that league winning goal under bittersweet circumstances, Brady recalls: “I had two choices, two possibilities: to be a professional and take the penalty well, or to be a stupid child and refuse to kick or, worse, deliberately miss the shot. I chose to be a professional, I shot and I scored.”

The next season Juve would reach the European Cup final, but indeed without Brady.

Their signings of Zbigniew

Brady all smiles on a return to Luigi Ferrari Boniek and Michel Platini meant that Brady had to leave in order to maintain the required limits on foreign players.

Brady stayed in Italy, joining Sampdoria for two seasons where he linked up with Roberto Mancini and Trevor Francis, the side finishing 7th in both seasons. Inter Milan would be his next destination, finishing 3rd and 6th over two seasons, and losing UEFA Cup semi finals to Real Madrid in both of them. Brady left the glamour of teammates like Marco Tardelli and Karl-Heinz

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Rummenigge to the more modest surroundings of mid table provincial club Ascoli.

Following a season of securing stability for the delightfully nicknamed “I Picchi” (The Woodpeckers), Brady left La Dolce Vita behind him and returned to London to finish his career with West Ham United, but always maintains fond memories of his seven seasons in Italia.

Hopefully the next generation will be able to raise the profile of Irish football in Italy.

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A View from Afar Ian Templeman The LOI may be in full flow, but with it being the footballing close season pretty much everywhere else – and of course no World Cup or Euros as we would normally have in the summer of an even-numbered year – I have been taking time to go through some of the websites and stories that I noticed earlier in the year, made a note of, and resolved to go back to when I had some spare time.

The amount of time I spend checking different sources rather depends on what the subject matter is. I’m not always a fan of footballing history generally, I prefer to largely focus on the here and now, but having said that, there can often be certain subjects and topics that catch my eye as I browse the internet day to day, and I thought I’d share a few on here.

The website www.footballstadiums.co.uk describes itself as “a guide website to football grounds and stadiums in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world”. For every ground featured, there are stadium seating plans, photos, ticket prices, directions, details of hotels and bars near the stadium, details of stadium tours if they ae available and even local travel information to help you get there. This can be pretty comprehensive and even for stadiums I’ve been to, I found out snippets of information that I wasn’t aware of despite having been there. There’s also some interesting background on the

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clubs too, which throws up some off the wall facts and stats such as the name of the club mascot if they have one.

But by far the most interesting area of the site for me is the “articles” area, where there is a whole library of different features on a range of football stadium topics that is hugely impressive, and a treat for anyone with a passing interest in going to watch a football match.

There are features on the most remote and hardest to get to stadiums in the world, biggest football stadium follies, famous football stadium tunnels, and also articles that stray from the stadium theme, such as a feature on football team name suffixes if you have ever wondered where club names such as Tottenham Hotspur, Leyton Orient and Sheffield Wednesday came from, you will find the answer here.

It's a long time since I have spent so long on a football related website and enjoyed the range of features as much as this one – it’s very tempting to copy and paste a huge list of the snippets and facts I enjoyed on here and sharing them, but that wouldn’t be right. In the same way that repeating a comedian’s best jokes to your mates in the pub doesn’t do the performer justice, the same applies here.

Suffice to say that if you are football minded and take time out to spend time browsing on this website, I am sure you won’t be disappointed.

Moving on, it was while browsing a website that featured some interesting facts on football kits from the past, I stumbled across an interesting story that I hadn’t heard before, relating to a kit worn by the Republic of Ireland in an international match against France in 1973.

The story alleged that when the Republic team travelled to Paris in May 1973 their kit did not arrive with them, with a rumour being reported that someone at the FAI forgot to put it on the plane. Bereft of kit, and the game approaching, the French hosts came to the rescue and provided the visitors with an allgreen Adidas strip.

I have to admit that my suspicious nature wanted to check that statement out, so I made a note to look into the detail in an idle moment but sure enough, you only need to google “France v Republic of Ireland 1973” and the story seems to be verified. The top link from that search brings up a Youtube video showing the whole game from start to finish (yes, I must admit I was surprised to find it too!), right from the pre match warm-ups, and the captains exchanging pennants and handshakes in the centre circle.

It’s immediately apparent that the Irish team are indeed in an all-green Adidas kit, and most tellingly of all, there is no badge on the shirt – which was totally at odds with all the other national

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Ronan O’Flaherty @iantemplemanloi team kits that were worn before and after. Whatever the kit problems were, it didn’t seem to affect the Boys in Green too much, as they earned a creditable 1-1 draw in what was a World Cup Qualifying tie, with Mick Martin, then of Manchester United, scoring for the visitors.

My final suggestions might seem fairly obvious, but if you haven’t checked out the official UEFA and FIFA websites recently, when you get a minute it’s worth doing so, as they are both well worth a look.

The UEFA site – www.uefa.com – is obviously chock-a-block full of information about the various club and international competitions under their wing, and there is certainly no shortage of information and highlights when a tournament is either under way or about to start. Visiting last weekend, if you were looking for some details about the Women’s Euros, and the Men’s Under 19 Euros, your needs would be more than satisfied by the comprehensive picture provided on the official UEFA site. It’s worth checking out on nights and weeks when there are Champions League, Europa League, and Europa Conference League games.

Equally interesting is www.fifa.com, especially as FIFA recently announced that through their FIFA+ channel, they would be making large swathes of archive footage available to everyone free of charge,

France v Republic of Ireland - 19 May 1973.

Mick Martin equalises late on as Ireland wear an Adidas kit provided by their host. alongside more modern documentaries.

The library to browse through is vast, but on a quick look I found all the previous official World Cup films, usually released a few months after the tournament has finished, and one of the more recent releases is every single full match replay from the 2002 FIFA World Cup that took place in South Korea and Japan. So if you fancy reliving Robbie Keane's last minute equaliser against Germany in the context of the whole game, it's there and available.

The range of films and documentaries is huge, and you really need to take a look and pick out potential viewing, but to give you a flavour, there’s one on

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Paul Pogba at 20 when playing in the Under-20 World Cup finals in Turkey in 2013, best goals and best assists from past World Cup tournaments, and feature documentaries on the likes of Dani Alves, Andres Iniesta and Diego Maradona.

If that wasn’t enough, there are plenty of written articles too, on games and teams of the past, which are supplemented with pictures and footage from the FIFA archives.

If you have a few minutes spare to fill, as long as you have access to the internet, you’ll fill it no problem with a look at some of the above.

Happy browsing!

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Club History Dermot Looney

Jimmy ‘Timber’ Cummins – An Outstanding Career Cut Tragically Short

Timber (circled) while at the Model School, Inchicore.

St Patrick’s Athletic have been blessed with some great centrehalves over the years, from Des Dempsey, the pivot for some of the earliest Pat’s teams, to teaktough defenders like Damien Byrne and John McDonnell, and modern ball-playing centre-backs like Lee Desmond. But perhaps our greatest centre-half of all time was the legendary Jimmy ‘Timber’ Cummins, who starred for the Saints from 1944 to 1953.

In our most recent article we looked at Pat’s second year in the LOI, 1952/53, a season which ended in tragedy when Cummins suffered a career-ending injury aged just 26.

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among the founder members of the club; another Jimmy, also known as Jem or ‘Growler’ Cummins, had played for the Athletic from its foundation, with his brother Tommy joining shortly after. A third brother, Bart, was heavily involved off the field up until the 1990’s. The name Timber came from a family tradition, noted the Irish Press in 1955, stating that one son in every generation of his family got that nickname.

Timber’s own father, Charlie, had been a talented footballer in his youth. Charlie had played with the GSWR team based in Inchicore Works, where he worked, and later in Lancashire,

where he was based before service in the First World War. A soldier with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he was shot in the head and left for dead at Gallipoli, buried under a pile of soldiers for three days. Despite the lifealtering wounds and trauma, he eventually recovered and moved back to The Ranch in Inchicore.

His son Jimmy, born in 1927, was raised there at 38 Phoenix Street, an address immortalised in the poetry of his friend and nextdoor neighbour Thomas Kinsella, who wrote movingly of Charlie’s struggles.

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Cup, beating LOI opposition in the shape of Shelbourne and Bohemians on the way.

Kinsella (Drumcondra) heads for goal despite opposition from St Patrick’s defenders, Coyle (left) and Cummins at Tolka Park.

age. In a 1998 interview with Tom Hanley for The Saint, he noted that he played first with a team known as St Patrick’s Inchicore, playing out of the Ranch, and later with underage club Dublin City, where he won honours at under 15 and 16 level. In 1943, Billy McCormack, who would go on to have a vital role as St Pat’s Honorary Secretary, joined the Saints and established a hugely successful minor (underage) team. Jimmy was asked to sign and played alongside future Irish international Jimmy Hartnett in a Saints team which lifted the FAI Minor Cup (now the FAI Youth Cup) and AUL Subsidiary Minor Cup in 1945.

Timber, who spent two years with the minors and also won medals in the LFA Junior Cup and Saxone Cup, was soon promoted to the senior ranks. He told Tom Hanley that it was common for him to play three games in the same weekend; on Saturday for the first team, on Sunday morning for the minors and on Sunday afternoon for the B team.

By 1946/47 he was a regular in the Saints first team, competing in the LSL Division I. League.

The following season, 1947/48, saw what some called “the best Pat’s team ever” win the treble of LSL Division I, FAI Intermediate Cup and, perhaps most remarkably, the Leinster Senior

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By then, Timber was grabbing the attention of fans, journalists, league selectors and other clubs.

WP Murphy of the Irish Independent called him one of the “men of the match” in the LSC final against Transport, comparing him to the great Belfast centre-half Jackie Vernon, and later a “tower of strength” in the Intermediate Cup Final win over Cobh Ramblers. Other reports referred him in various games as “outstanding,” “masterly as a pivot” and praised his “positional play, tackling and covering.” Older Saints fans still with us in 2022 still talk of his heading ability in particular.

Timber himself told Tom Hanley that, because goalkeeper Jimmy Kinihan was of somewhat short stature, extra responsibility fell on him to defend corners and high free-kicks in his own box.

Representative honours came quickly. Jimmy represented the LSL against the Lanarkshire League in 1948, 1949 and 1950.

He was selected for the FAI Juniors in 1948; although they lost 3-1 at Hamden Park to Scotland, Timber was “the outstanding player in the game” according to the Evening Herald.

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family. “Sometimes people ask me why I never tried my luck in big-time English football. It was like this. When I wanted the offers, I got none, and when I was unable to accept, I got several. Reminds me of the times my father was very ill. That week I got the biggest offer of my life, for immediate acceptance. I could not leave, so I had to turn it down.”

“Sometimes I dream dreams, but I’m happy with St Pat’s.” talent of Shay Gibbons, then of Whitehall Rangers. Having kept tabs on the centre-forward for the following 18 months, the Pat’s selectors were keen to sign Gibbons in the 1950/51 season but were prohibited from approaching the player directly.

Instead, Timber and his wife Marie Woods cycled to Whitehall and convinced Shay to sign for the club, which he did in January 1951.

By 1950, Timber’s talents were leading to interest from a variety of professional clubs, including Dundalk and Irish League side Glenavon. Nothing was to come of the proposed moves, however, nor of any crosschannel interest.

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In May 1951, just before Pat’s began their League of Ireland membership, Timber guested for Cork Athletic in matches in the Festival of Britain. It has been speculated that this was because the Cork centre-half had gone AWOL from the British Army during the war, and did not fancy a trip across the Irish Sea lest he be arrested by the military police. Cork played South Liverpool, Oldham Athletic, New Brighton and Accrington Stanley in the tournament.

was job enough for any man,” reported the Evening Herald, with Johnny Coyle replacing him. Reminiscing on that time almost 50 years later in The Saint, Timber picked out teammates such as Coyle, goalkeeper Jimmy Kinihan, and forwards Longo White and Shay Gibbons for mention. He also noted the versatile Danno Donnelly and the bustling forward John ‘Barreller’ Cassidy, who played alongside Timber from 1947 right through to 1953.

Newspapers were effusive in their praise for Timber throughout the League-winning season. “Cummins was masterly at centre half, taking everything that came by the overhead route” noted the Sunday Independent. “Cummins subdued every centre-forward that came against him” wrote the Evening Herald.

Having helped the Saints to four LSL titles in a row, Timber played a starring role in the Pat’s team which won the League of Ireland title at their first attempt in 1951/52. He had been club captain at the start of the season but resigned from the position “on the grounds that policing the penalty area

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Timber continued to win praise from reporters the following season, despite Pat’s drop to a fourthplace League finish, and he won his first ever League of Ireland representative call-up in March 1953. Inter-League matches were a huge deal at the time, garnering significant media attention and, often, massive crowds, both on a par with full international games. Timber’s debut for the LOI was against the might of the English League on St Patrick’s Day, 1953 at Dalymount Park. He joined fellow Saints Jimmy Nelson and Shay Gibbons in taking on a side which included Billy Wright and Tom Finney among other talents. Although the English League side won 2-0, Cummins won huge admiration for his marking of Fulham’s Bedford Jezzard, and was selected again for the next interLeague game, against the Irish League, at Dalymount on April 22nd.

Timber was at “the peak of his powers,” as noted by Tom Hanley, aged 26 and acknowledged as the best centre-half in the League, when tragedy struck.

Cummins was marking the great Jimmy Jones, then with Glenavon. In a wretchedly ironic twist, Jones himself had recovered from a bad leg break, suffered when he was attacked by Linfield fans in a game which saw Belfast Celtic’s withdrawal from the Irish League. Timber attempted to tackle Jones but instead injured himself, hearing his leg snap immediately. He was told he suffered a “double treble fracture” which would end his playing career.

The horror didn’t end there, however. The League of Ireland, it emerged, did not have any insurance to cover their players. Timber spent 14 months out of work with next to no support for himself, his wife Marie, or their first child. “It is no joke for a young wife to have her husband on crutches, an old crock, with no job,” he later wrote, although his company did keep a vacancy for him until his return. One of the well-wishers who wrote to Timber in hospital was the great Stanley Matthews, then of Blackpool, who was staying in the Gresham Hotel at the time.

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Matthews was reportedly a big fan of Timber, having seen him play against Waterford for the Saints as well as in the inter-League game versus the English League.

Although he was later to manage at Chapelizod, Timber was never to play again, although he remained a committed Saints fan for the rest of his life. “Only for his injury he would certainly have sampled English First Division football,” wrote the Irish Press two years after his retirement. A belated benefit match was held for Timber on September 28th 1955, more than two years after the injury, between Pat’s and Distillery of Belfast, a 1-1 draw held under the lights at Tolka Park. Timber was one of the first players inducted into the club’s Harry Boland Hall of Fame in 2009, and sadly passed away in 2016 aged 88.

Many thanks to Jimmy’s grandson James and his great-grandson Zach for loaning their family archive on Timber’s career, which was of great assistance in compiling this article.

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FAI Cup Weekend ending Sun 31 July

Sean Curtis, 8, from 1-1Perrystown made his first 1-1visit to Richmond Park, 1-1which unfortuantely 1-1 ended in a 1-2 defeat for 1-1 the Saints to Shels, but 1-1 1-1Sean still really enjoyed his evening.

R1

Weekend ending Sun 28 Aug

R2

Weekend ending Sun 18 Sept

QF

Weekend ending Sun 16 Oct

SF

Weekend ending Sun 13 Nov

FINAL

UEFA Europa Conference League Thu 21 July - 1st Leg

QR2

Thu 28 July - 2nd Leg

QR2

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SAINTS SNAPS!

His favourite player is Sam Curtis (same surname, but no relation!).

Sean plays for Greenhills Boys Under 8s.

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2

Pres Cup

League

FAI Cup

Europe

1st Sub

2nd Sub 3rd Sub

4th Sub

5th Sub 1 Goals Scored OG Own Goal For

* Own Goal

Yellow Card

Red Card

SUBSTITUTES

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

1 M DOYLE

KING

OWOLABI

MCCLELLAND BERMINGHAM CORBALLY

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

M DOYLE

1 KING

MCCLELLAND 1 GRIVOSTI

O’REILLY

GRIVOSTI

O’REILLY

OWOLABI

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

M DOYLE

KING

OWOLABI 1 MURPHY

S CURTIS

BERMINGHAM GRIVOSTI

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

M DOYLE

OWOLABI

BURNS

KING

ABANKWAH

O’REILLY

FORRESTER 1 E DOYLE

M DOYLE

KING

OWOLABI

BERMINGHAM ABANKWAH

BURNS

OWOLABI

ABANKWAH

MCCLELLAND COUGHLAN

BRESLIN

OWOLABI

MCCLELLAND COUGHLAN COUGHLAN

MURPHY

MCCORMACK KEELEY

MCCORMACK S CURTIS

MCCLELLAND MCCORMACK O’REILLY

BERMINGHAM MCCORMACK B CURTIS

KEELEY

MCCORMACK S CURTIS

MURPHY

KEELEY

KING

MCCORMACK S CURTIS

MURPHY

KEELEY

ABANKWAH

MCCORMACK S CURTIS

MURPHY

KEELEY

MCCLELLAND LIPSIUC

CORBALLY

MURPHY

ODUMOSU

BERMINGHAM S CURTIS

MCCLELLAND COUGHLAN

E DOYLE

1 M DOYLE

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

1 M DOYLE

1 KING

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

M DOYLE

KING

OWOLABI

ABANKWAH

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

M DOYLE

KING

ABANKWAH

MCCORMACK MURPHY

OWOLABI

COUGHLAN

MURPHY

E DOYLE

COUGHLAN

KING

MCCLELLAND

M DOYLE

OWOLABI

CORBALLY

MCCORMACK BERMINGHAM S CURTIS

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

MCCLELLAND

KING

M DOYLE

COUGHLAN

OWOLABI

MCCORMACK SCOTT

MCCLELLAND

COUGHLAN

M DOYLE

OWOLABI

KING

E DOYLE

MCCORMACK 1 O’REILLY

ABANKWAH

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

KING

SCOTT

M DOYLE

MCCLELLAND COUGHLAN

BERMINGHAM OWOLABI

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

BURNS

COUGHLAN

OWOLABI

MCCORMACK MCCLELLAND ROBINSON

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

KING

M DOYLE

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

KING

BURNS

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

KING

BURNS

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

MCCLELLAND

OWOLABI

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

KING

OWOLABI

M DOYLE

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

2 BURNS

M DOYLE

MCCORMACK BERMINGHAM OWOLABI

ABANKWAH

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

BURNS

M DOYLE

ABANKWAH

FORRESTER

E DOYLE

M DOYLE

MCCORMACK OWOLABI

KING 1 MCCORMACK

1 KING

KING

1 BERMINGHAM M DOYLE BURNS

1 M DOYLE SCOTT

3 ROBINSON

KEELEY

MURPHY

FORRESTER

2 MCCORMACK

LOST 5-4 ON PENS

BERMINGHAM ODUMOSU

S CURTIS

MCCLELLAND ODUMOSU ROBINSON

ODUMOSU

BERMINGHAM S CURTIS

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

BRESLIN

S CURTIS

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

S CURTIS

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

S CURTIS

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

FAY

MCCLELLAND OWOLABI

ROBINSON 1 FAY

SCOTT

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

ROBINSON

BERMINGHAM OWOLABI

MCCORMACK FAY

SCOTT

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

ROBINSON

BERMINGHAM OWOLABI

MCCLELLAND B CURTIS

SCOTT

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

BERMINGHAM MCCLELLAND OWOLABI

ROBINSON

B CURTIS

M DOYLE

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

M DOYLE

MCCORMACK BURNS

KING

B CURTIS

SCOTT

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

BURNS

MCCORMACK GRIVOSTI

ABANKWAH

ROBINSON

SCOTT

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

SCOTT

KING

ROBINSON

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

MCCORMACK SCOTT

OWOLABI

BERMINGHAM CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

MCCLELLAND ABANKWAH

BERMINGHAM B CURTIS

MCCLELLAND ROBINSON ROBINSON

CORBALLY

ODUMOSU

Quiz Time Kieran Coughlan 1

Name the five countries beginning with the letter A that have played in a World Cup tournament?

2

Who are the only English club not to lose a competitive match against Real Madrid?

3

Which player lost in the 2008 Champions League and European Championship final?

4

When did Celtic first play in the Champions League group stages?

5

Name the two German born players that have played for Northern Ireland?

6

Which manager signed Ian Bermingham for the Saints?

7

In what decade did Dundalk last fail to win the FAI Cup?

8

Which Irish club did Adam O'Reilly play on loan for last season?

9

Which current Saint was Drogheda player of the year in 2020?

10 Which goalkeeper has kept the most clean sheets playing with Scotland?

Answers 1 Argentina, Algeria, Angola, Austria and Australia. 2 Arsenal. 3 Michael Ballack.

4 2001-02. 5 Steve Lomas, Maik Taylor. 6 Pete Mahon. 7 90s. 8 Waterford.

9 Mark Doyle. 10 Jim Leighton.

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Apps & Goals 2022 League of Ireland

1

Joseph Anang

President’s Cup

UP TO AND INCLUDING GAMES PLAYED ON MON 27 JUNE 2022

FAI Cup

Europa Conference

TOTAL

Pld

Goals

Pld

Goals

Pld

Goals

Pld

Goals

Pld

Goals

22

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

23

0

23 David Odumosu

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

25 Josh Keeley

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

Jack Scott

11+4s

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

12+4s

1

3

Ian Bermingham

5+5s

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5+5s

0

4

Joe Redmond

22

2

1

0

0

0

0

0

23

2

5

Tom Grivosti

19+1s

1

1s

0

0

0

0

0

19+2s

1

6

Jamie Lennon

3

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

8

Chris Forrester

21

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

22

1

9

Eoin Doyle

21+1s

8

1

1

0

0

0

0

22+1s

9

10 Ronan Coughlan

2+6s

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2+6s

0

11 Jason McClelland

7+8s

1

1s

0

0

0

0

0

7+9s

1

14 Mark Doyle

13+7s

2

1

0

0

0

0

0

14+7s

2

15 Billy King

18+2s

3

1

0

0

0

0

0

18+2s

3

16 Adam O’Reilly

18+3s

0

1s

0

0

0

0

0

19+4s

0

17 Darragh Burns

18+4s

4

1

0

0

0

0

0

19+4s

4

18 Ben McCormack

4+8s

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

4+8s

1

19 Anto Breslin

20+1s

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

21+1s

0

20 James Abankwah

5+5s

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

6+5s

0

22 Sam Curtis

7

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

7

0

24 Ben Curtis

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

28 Cian Kelly

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

29 Paddy Barrett

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

31 Kian Corbally

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

33 Kyle Robinson

6s

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

6s

1

34 Adam Murphy

1+2s

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1+2s

0

45 Tunde Owolabi

4+13s

4

1s

0

0

0

0

0

4+14s

4

PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

Pld

W

D

L

F

A

GD

Pts

1

SHAMROCK ROVERS

22

15

3

4

36

14

22

48

L

2

DUNDALK

20

10

8

2

28

14

14

38

W W W W D

3

DERRY CITY

21

10

7

4

35

19

16

37

L

L

D

4

ST PATRICK'S ATHLETIC

22

9

5

8

29

21

8

32

W

L

W D

5

SLIGO ROVERS

21

7

8

6

28

23

5

29

L

W D W D

6

BOHEMIANS

20

6

8

6

25

25

0

26

W

L

7

SHELBOURNE

20

7

4

9

17

24

-7

25

W W

8

DROGHEDA UNITED

20

5

7

8

22

32

-10

9

FINN HARPS

20

2

6

12

17

36

-19

10

UCD

20

1

6

13

12

41

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LAST 5 MATCHES W

L

W W

D W L

D W

L

L

L

D

22

W W D

D

D

12

L

L

D

L

D

9

L

L

D

L

L

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