Wes Boyle

Name: Wesley Samuel Boyle
Born: 30 March 1979, Portadown
Height: 5.11 ft
Weight: 11.00 st
Position: Winger

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 7 Under-21 Caps / 1 Goal (1998-2001), 5 Under-18 Caps / 1 Goal, Under-18 Schools, 1 Under-17 Cap, 1 Under-16 Cap, 3 Under-15 Caps.
Club Honours: (with Leeds) FA Youth Cup Winner 1996/97; (with Portadown) Irish Championship Winner 2008/09; Irish Cup Winner 2004/05, Runner-Up 2009/10; Irish League Cup Winner 1995/96, 2008/09, Runner-Up 2010/11.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Portadown	95/96	-	Youth	1(1)/0	-	3(0)/0	-	2(3)/1
Leeds United	96/97-01/02	Apr-96	Youth	0(1)/0	-	-	-	-
Portadown	02/03-11/12	Jul-02	Free	-	-	-	-	-
Doncaster.Rovers	-	Dec-02	Trial	0(0)/0	-	-	-	-
Loughgall	03/04	Mar-03	Loan	/1	-	-	-	-
Loughgall	12/13-date	Aug-12	Free	-	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£-		-	-	-	-	-

Biography:
A member of Northern Ireland's 1997 Milk Cup winning squad.

Boyle put in a Man of the Match performance against Newry City as Portadown won the 2009 League Cup Final.

Boyle was released by Portadown in the summer of 2012. He then joined Loughgall as player-coach.

NIFL Stats

More to follow.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
21-04-1998 Switzerland... H W 2-1 FR. sub
20-05-1998 Scotland...... N D 1-1 PT. sub
23-03-2001 Czech Republic H L 0-2 ECQ sub
27-03-2001 Bulgaria...... A L 0-2 ECQ
01-06-2001 Bulgaria...... H D 1-1 ECQ sub
05-06-2001 Czech Republic A L 0-4 ECQ
05-10-2001 Malta......... A D 2-2 ECQ 1 goal

Summary: 3(4)/1. Won 1, Drew 3, Lost 3.

Ted Seymour

Name: Edward H.C. Seymour
Position: Outside-Right

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1914), 2 Amateur Caps (1913-1914).
Club Honours: (with Glentoran) Irish Cup Winner 1916/17, Runner-Up 1915/16; Belfast & District (War-Time) League Champion 1916/17; Belfast (War-Time) City Cup Winner 1915/16, 1916/17; Gold Cup Winner 1916/17; Co. Antrim Shield Runner-Up 1916/17; Charity Cup Runner-Up 1916/17; (with Linfield) Irish Cup Winner 1918/19.

Club Career:

Clubs	Seasons		Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup		Other
Trojans			-	-	(Leinster League)
Bohemians			-	Amateur	-		-	-
Cardiff City		-	Jan-14	-	0/0		-	-
Glentoran		15/16-17/18	Dec-15	-	*70/21		-	-
Linfield		18/19	c/s-18	-	-		-	-
Luton Town		-	Jul-19	-	(Southern League)
Bridgend.Town		-	Sep-20	-	-
TOTALS			-		70/21		-	-

* All games

Biography:
Ted Seymour was one of the best players on the field as Wales were defeated 2-1 by Ireland on their way to a first Home Nations Championship. Almost immediately he earned a move to Cardiff City, but made little impact before returning across the Irish Sea.

More to follow.

Ireland Cap Details:
19-01-1914 Wales... A W 2-1 BC

Summary: 1/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 0.

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
05-10-1912 England. H W 3-2 1 goal
08-11-1913 England. A L 0-2 

Summary: 2/1 Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Club career details kindly supplied by Martin O'Connor.

Pat "Don Patricio" O'Connell

Centre-half for Ireland's first International Championship win in 1914, Pat O'Connell was a well-travelled player and became an even better travelled manager and coach...

Name: Patrick Joseph O’Connell
Born: 8 March 1887, Drumcondra, Dublin
Died: 27 February 1959, St. Pancras, London (England)
Height: 5.11 ft
Weight: 11.06 st
Position: Centre-Half

Representative Honours: Ireland: 5 Full Caps (1912-1914), 1 Victory Cap (1919).

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other
Frankfort	(Dublin)	-	-	-	-	-
Stranville Rovers	(Dublin)	-	-	-	-	-
Belfast Celtic	08/09	Aug-08	-	/5	-	/4
Sheffield Wednesday	08/09-11/12	Mar-09	-	18/0	3/0	-
Hull City	12/13-13/14	May-12	-	58/1	5/0	-
Manchester United	14/15	Apr-14	£1,000	34/2	1/0	-
Rochdale	16/17	Dec-16	Guest	-	-	-
Clapton Orient	17/18	-	Guest	-	-	-
Chesterfield	18/19	-	Guest	-	-	-
Dumbarton	19/20	Aug-19	-	32/0	2/0	-
Ashington	20/21-21/22	c/s-20	-	19/1	-	-
TOTALS	-	£1,000		161/9	11/0	/4

Coaching Career:
Ashington player/manager 1921-1922
Racing Santander manager 1922-1929
Real Oviedo manager 1929-1931
Real Betis manager 1931-1935
Barcelona manager 1935-1938
Real Betis manager 1938-39
Sevilla manager 1942-1945
Racing Santander manager 1948-1949
Recreativo de Huelva scout 1949-1958

Biography:
An intelligent and stylish centre-half, Paddy O'Connell was a powerful opponent. While playing for Stranville Rovers and working at Boland’s Mills in Dublin he was signed by Belfast Celtic in August 1908, and played the full season with them, scoring 5 goals in the league and 4 in the City Cup. The highlight of his career at Belfast Celtic was scoring a hattrick in the 4-1 defeat of Linfield at Windsor Park in a City Cup match on the 31st October 1908.

In April 1909 O'Connell signed for Sheffield Wednesday and spent three seasons at the club without ever securing a regular place. He became a regular at Hull for two seasons and played in all three matches for Ireland when they won the International Championship for the first time in 1914. His displays in these matches was described as “steady as a rock”. In the final match, against Scotland, Paddy was injured in the first half but resumed after eight minutes with a bandaged left forearm. His re-emergence was key as Ireland also lost goalkeeper Fred McKee to injury and they battled from behind to claim a crucial 1-1 darw.

Manchester United signed O'Connell for £1,000 in May 1914 and appointed him captain. On Good Friday 1915 he missed a penalty in a match against Liverpool that was later revealed to be fixed, though he was not among the players banned. He played for Rochdale, Clapton Orient and Chesterfield during the war years, moving to Dumbarton in Scotland in August 1919 and subsequently to Ashington until he suddenly disappeared in June 1922, leaving a wife and young family behind him. He subsequently turned up in Spain, where he embarked on a coaching career that saw him in charge of several Spanish Clubs. He also coached the Spanish national side on a number of occasions.

O'Connell was an enigmatic figure, possessed of great personal charm and charisma. In 1915 he was implicated in a betting scandal while playing for Manchester United, when he missed a penalty in a Good Friday match that was arranged to finish 2-0 to United. He reputedly escaped a suspension because he charmed the adjudication panel. When he left his wife and family in 1922, the first they knew of his whereabouts was when he sent money home from Spain. While in Spain he was associated with the republican movement, as was the Barcelona club, and O'Connell reputedly escaped execution only because General Franco was a soccer fanatic.

In his later years O'Connell moved between Spain and a brother’s home in London. He was living in London when he died on 27 February 1959. On 6th June 2015 a plaque in his honour was unveiled at his former home in the Drumcondra area of Dublin.

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Belfast Celtic
BBC Story
Bronze Bust

Ireland Cap Details:

10-02-1912 England. H L 1-6 BC
16-03-1912 Scotland H L 1-4 BC
19-01-1914 Wales... A W 2-1 BC
14-02-1914 England. A W 3-0 BC
14-03-1914 Scotland H D 1-1 BC

Summary: 5/0. Won 2, Drew 1, Lost 2.

Victory Cap Details:
22-03-1919 Scotland A L 1-2 VI

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

By George Glass with help from O'Connell's daughter and Colin Jose. Further information supplied by Robin Peake.

Fred McKee

Name: Frederick William McKee
Born: 31 August 1883, Belfast
Died: 19 October 1956
Height:
Weight:
Position: Goalkeeper

Representative Honours: Ireland: 5 Full Caps (1906-1914); Irish League: 5 Caps (1906-1914); 5 Amateur Caps (1910-1921).
Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Irish League Champion 1905/06, 1909/10; Cup Winner 1906/07, 1908/09, Runner-Up 1909/10; Belfast Charity Cup Winner; (with Linfield) Irish Cup Winner 1914/15, 1915/16, 1918/19, Runner-Up 1917/18; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1916/17, 1922/23; Belfast & District (War-Time) League Champion 1915/16, 1917/18.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Others
Cliftonville	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
Sunderland	07/08	-	Amateur	0/0	-	-
Cliftonville	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
Bradford City	11/12	-	Amateur	1/0	-	-
Liverpool	-	Aug-12	Amateur	0/0	-	-
Belfast Celtic	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
Linfield	14/15-22/23	-	Amateur	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£0		-	-	-

Biography:
A rather eccentric tea-merchant by day, Fred McKee was famed for his Saville Row suit and the cigarette holder that invariably projected from the side of his mouth. He also took these flamboyant characteristics onto the football field, where he earned the nickname “Lizzie”, his tall, pencil-thin frame clad in long black stockings and topped with a red-white-and-blue hooped jersey!

Throughout his long career, McKee remained an amateur, an ethos he no doubt took from his successful days as Cliftonville’s custodian. While at Solitude he won the Irish Cup and Irish League twice each and also claimed his first two Ireland caps, following in the footsteps of his elder brother, Hymie who had won three caps a decade earlier. In his time at Solitude McKee was also honoured at amateur and inter-league representative levels.

Largely due to the presence of one Billy Scott, McKee suffered an absence from the Ireland eleven of almost eight years before he was recalled for the 1914 Home Nation Championships. In the intervening years he had signed for Belfast Celtic and remained a regular choice for Ireland Amateur.
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McKee’s re-emergence at senior international level proved a great success as he conceded just once against Wales, England and in a little-under a half against Scotland. It was in that match against Scotland that his glorious return so nearly turned sour as he was injured late in the first-half and forced to retire. In his absence it was stand-in goalie McConnell’s naivety that lost Ireland the goal that could have cost the Home Nations title. Thankfully the ten-men rallied to score an equaliser and so claim their first outright Championship.

McKee transferred to Linfield during the 1914 close-season and went on to claim three Irish Cups during the years of the Great War. Although he was never called on for another full international appearance he did win further amateur recognition after hostilities had ended.

McKee’s Linfield career began to wane during their great 1921/22 seven-trophy campaign during which, having started as first choice, he lost his place to Alfie Harland. Consequently McKee claimed just one winner’s medal that season, in a 1-0 victory over Cliftonville in the Alhambra Cup. One of McKee’s final appearances for the Blues was in their 4-1 1923 Co. Antrim Shield Final win against Glentoran.

Ireland Cap Details:
17-03-1906 Scotland H L 0-1 BC
02-04-1906 Wales... A D 4-4 BC
19-01-1914 Wales... A W 2-1 BC
14-02-1914 England. A W 3-0 BC
14-03-1914 Scotland H D 1-1 BC

Summary: 5/0. Won 2, Drew 2, Lost 1.

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
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