The highly-rated teenager has been ruled out of next week's crucial Euro 2020 qualifiers with Denmark and Gibraltar due to a thigh problem. The Liverpool-born starlet had played his way into McCarthy's final squad after impressing on a training camp in Portugal. Connell (18) is expected to leave Bolton this summer with a host of Premier League clubs on his trail and reports of English FA interest in the midfielder had raised fears around his intentions after the loss of Jack Grealish and Declan Rice. However, Ireland boss McCarthy said yesterday that he had a positive chat with Connell about his position. "I asked him, 'If I put you on for three minutes, in one of the games, somewhere down the line, would you be p***** off with me or do you want to play for Ireland?" said the Ireland boss. "And he said, 'I want to play for Ireland, that's what I want to do'. "It's a kind of duty of care as well, he has just turned 18. At the moment he is full of hype and all that and (he would say) 'I … [Read more...] about ‘I want to play for Ireland, that’s what I want to do’
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Sergei Polunin: ‘I dug a hole for myself’
Entertainment & Arts By Vincent Dowd Arts reporter, BBC News 30 May 2019 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share this with Facebook Share this with WhatsApp Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share Share this with These are external links and will open in a new window Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this with Facebook Messenger Share this with Messenger Messenger Share this with Messenger Twitter Share this with Twitter Pinterest Share this with Pinterest WhatsApp Share this with WhatsApp LinkedIn Share this with LinkedIn Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48433923 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel The last time he made headlines was with what some claimed were homophobic … [Read more...] about Sergei Polunin: ‘I dug a hole for myself’
‘If I wanted a fairytale ending I would have finished off last year when I scored that point’
In July he will turn 56. Linden had already passed the half-century when he returned to football by coming on for the Mayobridge third team in a reserves championship match in 2013. Not just coming on to stand in at corner forward either, but to pick up where he had left off, scoring four points in fleet-footed defiance of all the constraints normally placed on a man of that age. After that run ended he seemed to declare he'd had enough. Only he never quite stopped and last year, like a ghost from Down's past, he re-emerged to hit an astonishing score in the final of the reserves championship against neighbours Burren. The quality of the score, at 55, was staggering and a recording of the moment quickly spread across social media. Someone lifted a point of his out of the archives from the 1991 All-Ireland final against Meath which had a similar look and juxtaposed the two. Though from two entirely different environments, and separated by over a quarter of a century, the similarities … [Read more...] about ‘If I wanted a fairytale ending I would have finished off last year when I scored that point’
I want to play for Northern Ireland despite fatigue: Oxford’s hat-trick hero Gavin Whyte lifts the lid on ‘amazing’ first season
I want to play for Northern Ireland despite fatigue: Oxford's hat-trick hero Gavin Whyte lifts the lid on 'amazing' first season BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Oxford United's newest hat-trick hero Gavin Whyte says he is ready and raring to go for Northern Ireland this summer. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/i-want-to-play-for-northern-ireland-despite-fatigue-oxfords-hattrick-hero-gavin-whyte-lifts-the-lid-on-amazing-first-season-38041890.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article38042722.ece/670fd/AUTOCROP/h342/pe_00767677.jpg Email Oxford United's newest hat-trick hero Gavin Whyte says he is ready and raring to go for Northern Ireland this summer. The 23-year-old became the first player to score a treble for the U's in more than two years when he found the net three times against Shrewsbury on Monday. It was just days after boss Karl Robinson had revealed that Whyte is suffering from 'chronic fatigue' during his first season in full-time … [Read more...] about I want to play for Northern Ireland despite fatigue: Oxford’s hat-trick hero Gavin Whyte lifts the lid on ‘amazing’ first season
“I wanted a response from them
Gary Edgley gave his Boston Town side the thumbs up after ending their four-game winless run. Defeats to highflying Rugby and Daventry were sandwiched between draws with Cogenhoe United and Rothwell Corinthians.But after securing their UCL Premier status last week, the Poachers returned to winningh ways with a 3-2 victory at Oadby, courtesy of a Tiago Nassunculo brace and Fraser Bayliss’s finish.“I spoke with the players before the game that I was disappointed with our performance and result from the week before,” Edgley told bostontownfc.co.uk.“I believe this team is a lot better than what they showed last week and I wanted a response from them - and I got it.“Our first half was brilliant, we were solid in defence, dominated the midfield and we were electric going forward, causing the Oadby defence so many problems. “The only down side about the first half was the two clear chances we missed before Tiago Nassunculo scored a brace to give us a 2-0 … [Read more...] about “I wanted a response from them