Jamie Mulgrew

Name: James Mulgrew
Born: 5 June 1986
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Position: Midfielder

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Full Caps (2010), 10 Under-21 Caps (2006-2008), Under-23.
Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2016/17; Irish Cup Winner 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2016/17, Runner-Up; Irish League Cup Winner 2007/08; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 2013/14, 2016/17.
Awards: Ulster Footballer of the Year 2016/17; NIFWA Player of the Year 2017.

Club Career:
Teams.... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee-
3rd Bangor Boys' Brigade ... Youth
St Andrews B.C. ............ Youth
Holywood Boys .............. Youth
St Andrews B.C. ............ Youth
Glentoran .................. Youth
Linfield. 05/06- date Jun-05

Biography:
Jamie Mulgrew had been on the books at Glentoran before he joined Linfield in June 2005. He made his deut for the Blues in a 2-0 home win over Loughgal on 20 August 2005 and scored his first goal for the club in a 4-0 win at Lisburn Distillery on 4 November 2006. That season he claimed his first major honours in the shape of an Irish League and Cup "double" and the following campaign he claimed the League Cup as well as the "treble" was completed. In 2009/10 he was voted Linfield's Player of the Year and come the end of the season was included in the Northern Ireland squad that travelled across the Atlantic and he started both matches against Turkey and Chile. 2015/16 was designated as his testimonial season by Linfield, and this culminated with a gala match against Rangers on 3 September 2016. To the start of the 2016/17 season Mulgrew has made 436 appearances and scored 40 goals for Linfield including 24 games and 2 goals in Europe.

Northern Ireland Cap Details:
26-05-2010 Turkey...... N L 0-2 FR
30-05-2010 Chile ...... A L 0-1 FR

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

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
14-11-2006 Germany U-19 A L 1-2 FR
06-02-2007 Wales....... H L 0-4 FR
24-03-2007 Romania..... A L 0-2 FR. sub
24-05-2007 Scotland.... A L 0-4 FR
01-06-2007 Moldova..... A W 1-0 ECQ sub
21-08-2007 Finland..... H W 2-1 FR
12-09-2007 Luxembourg.. A W 2-1 ECQ sub
17-10-2007 Israel...... H L 1-3 ECQ sub
06-02-2008 Israel...... A L 1-2 ECQ sub
26-03-2008 Romania..... H L 1-3 FR. sub

Summary: 4(6)/0. Won 3, Drew 0, Lost 7.

Picture courtesy of Redneck Rich from the OWC forum (more here)

Eric Magee

Name: Eric Magee
Born: 24 August 1947, Lurgan
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Position: Winger

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Amateur Cap (1965); Irish League: 2 Caps (1966-1974).
Club Honours:

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Glenavon	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-	-	-
Oldham Ath.	67/68-68/69	Jun-67	-	41 (4)/  9	1(0)/0	3(0)/1	-	-
Port Vale	69/70	Jul-69	-	11 (7)/  1	1(1)/1	1(0)/0	-	-
Linfield	70/71-76/77	-	-	310 (-)/136	*	*	*	*
Bangor	-	Aug-77	-	-	-	-	-	-
Portadown	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Distillery	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£-		362(11)/146	2(1)/1	4(0)/1	-	-

* All games

Biography:
A cultured and skilful midfield player, Eric Magee had a long and distinguished career in the Irish League as well as a spell in England with Oldham Athletic and Port Vale.

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Northern Ireland Amateur Caps:
25-09-1965 England H L 0-2

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

Irish League Representative Appearances:
21-09-1966 Football League.. A L 0-12
18-03-1974 League of Ireland A L 2- 3

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

Jimmy Murdough

Name: James Murdough
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Position: Right-Half

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Amateur Cap (1920).
Club Honours: (with Distillery) Gold Cup Winner 1919/20; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1918/19, 1919/20; (with Queen's Island) Irish League Champion 1923/24; Irish Cup Winner 1923/24; City Cup Winner.

Club Career:
Teams ........ --Seasons-- Signed League
Stanley
Glenbank Corinthians ............ (Football Alliance)
Linfield Swifts
Distillery II
Brantwood
Distillery ... 17/18-20/21 ....... 70/ 1 (all games)
Queen's Island ........... Aug-21

Biography:
Jimmy Murdough was a graduate of the 24th Boys' Brigade Company where he played alongside Davy Rollo and claimed the BB Cup. He began his career in junior circles prior to the outbreak of the Great War during which time he served with the 15th Irish Rifles and was taken prisoner. He made his debut for Distillery in April 1918 but it was the 1919/20 season before he became established as the Whites' regular left-half. Twice a Co. Antrim Shield winner with consecutive replay defeats of Belfast Celtic in 1919 and 1920, he also played in a 3-1 Gold Cup final win over Glentoran in 1920. Selected for Amateur Ireland's first post-war home match, a 4-0 defeat by England in November 1920, he played at right-half - a position he also occasionally filled at club level. In August 1921 Murdough joined Queen's Island and featured in some of their brief successes, including the Double in 1924.

Also a keen cricketer, Murdough's brothers George (Linfield Swifts) and Richard (Distillery) where also skilled footballers.

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
13-11-1920 England. H L 0-4

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

Details and picture from "The Whites" by Dawson Simpson. Further details from ISN profile kindly forwarded by Jim Murphy.

Gerry Mitchell

Name: Gerald Mitchell
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Position: Left-Half

Representative Honours: Ireland: 7 Amateur Caps (1931-1936); Alliance League Representative.
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Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA.Cup	Other
Loopbridge	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
Dunmurry	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
Cliftonville	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£0		-	-	-

Biography:
The regular left-half for Ireland's Amateur team for a period of five years in the early-1930s, Gerry Mitchell was noted not just for his "blockade tactics", but also for his clever play "in initiating and backing up his attack".

Mitchell began his career with Loopbridge where he played for just a few months in the forward line. He then played a few games for Dunmurry before joining Cliftonville Olympic where "his destructive and constructive qualities developed rapidly". He representated the Alliance League as centre-forward against the Stockport & District XI, his performance earning him further selections for the Alliance.

It was only after his prmotion to the Cliftonville firstteam that Mitchell began playing in the half-back line. It was in his first season of senior football, still a relative novice in the left-half role, that he earned selection for Amateur Ireland's trip to York to face England in November 1931. He retained his position for seven of Ireland's next nine Amateur international matches.

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
14-11-1931 England. A L 2-3
23-01-1932 Scotland H W 4-0
28-01-1933 Scotland A L 0-6 (or 1-5?)
18-02-1933 England. H W 4-3
17-02-1934 England. A L 0-4
17-04-1935 Scotland A W 3-2
15-02-1936 England. A L 0-5

Summary: 7/0. Won 3, Drew 0, Lost 4.

Details and picture kindly supplied by Jim Murphy.

Robert Mills

Name: Robert Mills
Born: 13 December 1887, Belfast
Died: 1963, Belfast
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Position: Right-Back

Representative Honours: Ireland: 3 Amateur Caps (1919-1921).
Club Honours: (with Dromore United) Beattie Cup Winner.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other
Chlorine	-	-	-	(Combination Second Division)
Belfast Celtic	09/10	-	-	-	-	-
Dromore United	-	-	-	(Combination First Division)
Cliftonville	-	-	Amateur	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£-		-	-	-

Biography:
A "celebrity" of Belfast football, Robert Mills was a "sturdy and redoubtable defender". He was "wooed" to Belfast Celtic from Chlorine. With Mills playing alongside a young Mickey Hamill the Celtic IIs had "no lack of power and resource in defence." While Hamill joined Manchester United, Mills made the less glamorous move to Dromore United, where he claimed a Beattie Cup winner's medal.

Mills was then enticed to sign for Cliftonville Olympic, but he went straight into the firstteam where he "appeared with unfailing regularity" for a decade and rose to become captain. His "dour and stubborn" defending earned him selection at left-back for the Irish War Team, which was "virtually an international eleven", that drew 0-0 with a Billy McCracken led English War Team in a charity match at Windsor Park in October 1918. In November 1919 Mills was selected at right-back for Ireland's first post-war amateur international and he captained the team the following year.

A cabinet maker by trade, Mills lived on Devonshire Street in the Falls area of Belfast before moving to Palestine Street in the "Holylands". He married Mary Elizabeth Allen on 16th November 1911 at Ballynafeigh Methodist Church.

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
15-11-1919 England. A L 0-5
13-11-1920 England. H L 0-4
08-02-1921 France.. A W 2-1

Summary: 3/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 2.

Other Representative Appearance Details:
12-10-1918 Irish War Team-English War Team H D 0-0

Medals:
Two medals collected by Robert Mills during his playing career. The first is from the Amateur international against France in 1921 awarded by the Fédération Française de Football Association (FFFA) (now the Fédération Française de Football (FFF)). The second is a Beattie Cup winner's medal awarded to Mills in 1911/12 while he played for Dromore United.

Picture and career details courtesy of an ISN profile forwarded by Jim Murphy. Medal pictures and personal details kindly supplied by Mills' great-grandson, Philip.

Jimmy Millar

Name: James Millar
Born: c.1910, Belfast
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Position: Centre-Forward

Representative Honours: Ireland: 6 Amateur Caps / 3 Goals (1929-1931); Amateur League Representative.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Other
Avonmore	25/26	-	-	-	-	-
53rd.Old.Boys	26/27-27/28	-	-	-	-	-
Crusaders	27/28	-	-	-	-	-
Brantwood	28/29	c/s-28	-	-	-	-
Cliftonville	28/29-??/??	Jan-29	Amateur	*/110	-	-
TOTALS	-	£0		-	-	-

* all games

Biography:
One of only six players to a hit a hattrick for Amateur Ireland, Jimmy Millar began making his mark as a fifteen year-old with Avonmore in the Ballynafeigh & District League. The following season, while with 53rd Old Boys, he was honoured by the Amateur League as an inside-forward against the North West Association at Derry. He then played centre-forward against the same opposition and against Enniskillen & District the following season.

Towards the end of the 1927/28 season Millar played a few games with Crusaders, but from the start of the following season through to Christmas he was with Brantwood. He was then convinced to step up to the Irish League proper with Cliftonville. He scored “quite freely” in his opening months at the “highest level” with the Amateurs, his displays showing “him in a good light [demonstrating] plenty of dash and pluck [...] a splendid conception of a centre-forward’s duty and above all an eye for the main chance – goals.”

It was Amateur England’s visit to Belfast in November 1930 that brought the highlight of Millar’s representative career as he claimed all three of Ireland’s goals in a 3-1 win. Those were the only goals of his six cap amateur international career. His return of 110 goals for Cliftonville remains the fifth highest by a player for the club.

Millar’s father, also James, was also involved in football as a “well known referee”.

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
16-11-1929 England. A L 2-7
20-09-1930 Scotland A L 0-2
15-11-1930 England. H W 3-1 3 goals
28-01-1933 Scotland A L 1-5 (or 0-5?)
25-04-1934 Scotland H W 4-1
14-11-1931 England. A L 2-3

Summary: 6/3. Won 2, Drew 0, Lost 4.

Based on information kindly supplied by Jim Murphy.

Sam Morrow

Name: Sam Morrow
Born: 3 March 1985, Londonderry
Height: 6.00 ft
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Position: Forward

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 4 Under-21 Caps / 4 Goals (2005-2006), 8 Under-15 Schoolboy Caps (2000-2001).
Club Honours: (with Derry) FAI Cup Runner-Up 2008; League of Ireland Cup Winner 2008; (with Ross Co.) Scottish First Division Champion 2011/12.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Institute	-	-	Youth	-	-	-	-	-
Ipswich Town	03/04	Jul-03	Youth	0 (0)/ 0	-	0(1)/0	-	-
Boston United	03/04	Dec-03	Loan	0 (2)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Hibernian	04/05-06/07	Jul-04	Free	5(25)/ 1	2(2)/2	3(1)/0	1(2)/0	-
Livingston	05/06	Jan-06	Loan	11 (0)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Partick Thistke	06/07	Mar-07	Loan	4 (4)/ 1	-	-	-	-
Derry City	2007 - 2009	Aug-07	Free	41 (-)/ 7	-	-	4(-)/0	-
Dunfermline Ath.	-	Jan-10	Trial	0 (0)/ 0	-	-	-	-
Coleraine	09/10-10/11	Feb-10	Free	4 (-)/ 0	-	-	-	*2(-)/0
Tranmere Rovers	10/11	Aug-10	Undisc.	2 (3)/ 0	0(1)/0	-	-	1(2)/0
Ross County	11/12-12/13	Jul-11	Free	21(13)/ 6	2(1)/1	1(0)/0	-	-
Linfield	14/15	May-14	Free	17 (6)/ 5	0(2)/0	-	0(1)/0	1(0)/1
Coleraine	15/16-16/17	May-15	Free	8(10)/ 2	-	-	-	5(1)/0
Institute	16/17- date	Dec-16	Free	-	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£0		-	-	-	-	-

* all domestic cup games

Biography:
Sammy Morrow first came to prominence as a schoolboy when, as captain, he scored the equaliser in a 2-1 win over Wales that gave Northern Ireland their first ever Victory Shield title.

One of the many players left in limbo following the financial meltdown of Derry City in the autumn of 2009, Morrow was left without a club and five months wages. He joined Dunfermline on a trial basis in late-December, and reportedly signed a contract towards the end of January. However, on the 5th February it was then revealed that he had been signed by Coleraine on an 18-month deal.

Previously Morrow played in Scotland with Hibernian, but his career was hampered by a cruciate ligament injury. After being released by Hibs in 2007 he joined hometown club, Derry City. He scored a hattrick in the 6-1 2008 League of Ireland Cup Final win over Wexford Youths and the following season collected an FAI Cup runner-up medal despite scoring twice in the final as Bohemians won on penalties.

In March 2010 Morrow was given a three month suspension by FIFA after admitting betting on a number of games in which he was involved. In the summer of 2010 he joined Tranmere Rovers on trial with a deal completed for an undisclosed fee a few days before the close of the transfer window. Having failed to make an impact at Prenton Park he was allowed to leave the following summer, joining Ross County of the Scottish First Division early in the 2011/12 season and he helped them to promotion to the top-flight for the first time. He scored three times, notably in a 3-2 win over Celtic, as County secured a top-half finish.

Morrow was released in the summer of 2013. He later emerged at Linfield as one of Warren Feeney's first signings. He was released after a disappointing single season, returning for another spell at Coleraine shortly thereafter where once again he failed to live up to expectations. Morrow was released mid-way through the 2016/17 season to allow him to join Institute.

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Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
08-02-2005 Scotland....... H W 2-1 FR. sub 1 goal
16-08-2005 Rep. of Ireland H D 2-2 FR
28-02-2006 Wales.......... A W 1-0 FR..... 1 goal
12-04-2006 Leichtenstein.. A W 4-1 ECQ ... 2 goals

Summary: 3(1)/4. Won 3, Drew 1, Lost 0.