youngblue66
Player Valuation: £750k
Best of luck to Kevin and the boys today and hope another member of our Irish contingent has a successful end to the season. Born in Wales, Kevin is an iconic Eire and Everton star who made 357 appearances (12 as substitute) for the club, scoring 97 goals. He joined Everton's coaching staff in July 2006, to coach the Academy team.
Everton have increased their growing Irish contingent with the signing of 15 year old Irish winger Steven Kinsella to their academy with him choosing Everton over Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur after a personal visit from Everton manager Roberto Martinez.
In 1960, Belfast born Billy Bingham was signed by Carey and immediately struck up a fabulous partnership with Bobby Collins, and played 98 games before returning to manage the club in 1973. During that time he signed Northern Irish Dave Clements, who took over the Northern Ireland side in 1975 while still a First Division regular.
Around the same time another Belfast man, Brian Hamilton, signed for the club and is remembered for an infamous piece of Blues folklore when referee Clive Thomas ruled out his semi-final winning 'goal' against Liverpool to deny them a Cup Final appearance. He went on to manage the national team for 4 years.
Tommy Jackson and Norman Whiteside, were other Irish players who had shorter playing careers for the club.
The first product of Everton's short 4 year sponsorship of Irish Premier League club, Home Farm in Dublin was Richard Dunne, who joined Everton as a 15-year-old schoolboy in 1994-95.
Kevin Kilbane (born in Preston) and Lee Carsley (born in Birmingham) both represented the Republic of Ireland whilst with Everton and were firm crowd favourites in the early days of David Moyes' reign as Everton boss.
One name less familiar is Gareth Farrelly. Farrelly had an underwhelming time under Howard Kendall, yet managed to write himself into Everton folklore with a brilliant strike against Coventry in 1997 which helped save the club from relegation. Terry Phelan also represented the club during a less than impressive period in the Blues' history.
With another recent signing Aiden McGeady, Everton have again a significant Irish contingent within their ranks. Seamus Coleman, James McCarthy (born in Glasgow), Shane Duffy and Darron Gibson are the others who Martinez hopes will give his squad that little bit of luck his side may need in their bid for Champions League football this season.
An interesting footnote is that Seamus Coleman started his association football career with Sligo Rovers and the legendary Dixie Dean signed for Sligo Rovers in January 1939 at the end of his career to help the club in their FAI Cup campaign scoring ten goals in seven games for them.
He also played in four Cup matches before finishing as a losing finalist. His runner-up medal was stolen from his hotel room but on a return trip to Ireland to watch Rovers 39 years later in the 1978 FAI cup final, a package was delivered to his hotel room with the medal inside.
Everton have increased their growing Irish contingent with the signing of 15 year old Irish winger Steven Kinsella to their academy with him choosing Everton over Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur after a personal visit from Everton manager Roberto Martinez.
In 1960, Belfast born Billy Bingham was signed by Carey and immediately struck up a fabulous partnership with Bobby Collins, and played 98 games before returning to manage the club in 1973. During that time he signed Northern Irish Dave Clements, who took over the Northern Ireland side in 1975 while still a First Division regular.
Around the same time another Belfast man, Brian Hamilton, signed for the club and is remembered for an infamous piece of Blues folklore when referee Clive Thomas ruled out his semi-final winning 'goal' against Liverpool to deny them a Cup Final appearance. He went on to manage the national team for 4 years.
Tommy Jackson and Norman Whiteside, were other Irish players who had shorter playing careers for the club.
The first product of Everton's short 4 year sponsorship of Irish Premier League club, Home Farm in Dublin was Richard Dunne, who joined Everton as a 15-year-old schoolboy in 1994-95.
Kevin Kilbane (born in Preston) and Lee Carsley (born in Birmingham) both represented the Republic of Ireland whilst with Everton and were firm crowd favourites in the early days of David Moyes' reign as Everton boss.
One name less familiar is Gareth Farrelly. Farrelly had an underwhelming time under Howard Kendall, yet managed to write himself into Everton folklore with a brilliant strike against Coventry in 1997 which helped save the club from relegation. Terry Phelan also represented the club during a less than impressive period in the Blues' history.
With another recent signing Aiden McGeady, Everton have again a significant Irish contingent within their ranks. Seamus Coleman, James McCarthy (born in Glasgow), Shane Duffy and Darron Gibson are the others who Martinez hopes will give his squad that little bit of luck his side may need in their bid for Champions League football this season.
An interesting footnote is that Seamus Coleman started his association football career with Sligo Rovers and the legendary Dixie Dean signed for Sligo Rovers in January 1939 at the end of his career to help the club in their FAI Cup campaign scoring ten goals in seven games for them.
He also played in four Cup matches before finishing as a losing finalist. His runner-up medal was stolen from his hotel room but on a return trip to Ireland to watch Rovers 39 years later in the 1978 FAI cup final, a package was delivered to his hotel room with the medal inside.
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