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Name: Daniel Ballard  Born: 22 September 1999, Stevenage Height: 6.02 ft / 1.87 m Weight: Position: Central Defender Representative Honours:  Northern Ireland: Full, Under-21, Youth. Club Honours: (with Sunderland) EFL Championship Play-Off Winner 2024/25 . Club Career:  Teams .... -Seasons- Signed -Fee- League  Arsenal ...................   Youth  . 0(0)/0 Swindon T.  19/20 ...   Jul-19  . Loan . 0(1)/0  Blackpool.  20/21  ...  Oct-20  . Loan 24(1)/2 Millwall.. 21/22  ...  Jul-21  . Loan 30(1)/1 Sunderland 22/23  ...  Jul-22  . Free Biography:  English-born defender with Arsenal, first called-up to the senior squad by Michael O'Neill in 2019. He then suffered a major injury while on loan at Swindon but was thrown into Ian Baraclough's first starting eleven that drew 1-1 in Romania , despite playing nearly an hour with ten men.  Ballard's mother is from Northern Ireland, and he...

Name: Craig George Cathcart Born: 6 February 1989, Belfast Height: 6.02 ft Weight: 11.08 st Position: Centre-Back / Full-Back Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 73 Full Caps (2010-2023) , 15 Under-21 Caps (2006-2009) , 3 Under-20 Caps, 11 Under-17 Caps / 1 Goal, 6 Under-16 Caps; UEFA Under-18 Select (2007) . Club Honours: (with Watford) Football League Championship Runner-Up 2014/15 . Awards: Belfast Telegraph George Best Breakthrough Award 2011. Club Career: Teams .......... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- -League-- -FACup- FL Cup Carnmoney Colts .................. Youth St Andrew's BC ................... Youth Manchester Utd . 05/06-09/10 Feb-06 Youth Royal Antwerp .. 07/08 ..... Aug-07 . Loan .13 (0)/2 Plymouth Argyle . 08/09 ..... Aug-08 . Loan .30 (1)/1 .1(0)/0 1(0)/0 Watford ....... 09/10 ..... Sep-09  . Loan .12 (0)/0 Blackpool ..... 10/11-13/14  Aug-10 £300k 106 (6)/3 .3(1)/0 1(0)/0 Watford ....... 14/15-22/23  Jun-14 .Free 216(...

Name: John McShane Born: 6 October 1876, Belfast Died: 5 October 1958, Belfast (age 81) Position: Half-Back Representative Honours: Ireland: 4 Caps (1899-1900) . Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Irish Cup Winner 1899/00 . Club Career: Cliftonville Biography: Born to John J. (a builder/surveyor) and Selina (nee Broadbent) of 67 Eagleson Place/Duncairn Street. A four-time capped Cliftonville half-back, John McShane was given the honour of captaining Ireland against Scotland in 1900. That match, like the other three he played in an Irish shirt, finished in defeat. At club level McShane was part of of the Cliftonville side that defeated Bohemians in the 1900 Irish Cup Final. McShane worked Assistant Traffic Superintendent on the railways and was a foundation member of the Belfast Cotton & Rayon Agents Association. He lived for many years in Ballygrainey, Holywood, but at the time of his death he and his wife Susan were living in a flat at 32 Windsor Park, with his daughte...

Name: George Faber Sheehan Born: Dublin Died: Height: Weight: Position: Forward . . Representative Honours: Ireland: 3 Full Caps (1899-1900) . Club Honours: (with Bohs) Irish Cup Runner-Up 1899/00 ; Leinster Senior Cup Winner; Leinster League Champion. .. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Bohemians - - Amateur - - - TOTALS - £- - - - .. Biography: In the late 1890s Bohemians bowed out of the Irish Cup at the semi-final stage in 1898 and 1899 before making the Final in 1900. Desperate to wipe out the memory of their 10-1 defeat by Linfield in the 1895 Final at Solitude, the Dubliners once again travelled to Belfast. With George Sheehan as captain The Bohs put up a great resistence before losing out 2-1 to Cliftonville at Grosvenor Park - the captain scoring a consolation goal fiftee...

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 ...

Name: Samuel Spencer Born: Died: 16 March 1935 Height: Weight: Position: Centre-Half Representative Honours: Ireland: 6 Full Caps (1890-1893) ; Irish League: 1 Full Cap (1894) . Club Honours: (with Distillery) Irish Cup Winner 1888/89 , Runner-Up 1887/88 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1888/89, 1892/93. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Others Genoa - - - - - - Distillery 87/88 - 94/95 -1887 Amateur *110/10 - #108/8 TOTALS - £0 110/10 - 108/8 * all competitive games; # friendly games. Biography: A graduate of Distillery's junior team, Genoa, Sammy Spencer proved a steady and consistent performer at centre-half. Indeed he was claimed to be "the best Irish centre-half" a fact borne out by his election for Ireland six times. He captained Ireland on one occasion, in a 1-1 draw with Wales in February 1892 -...