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Tony Nelson

Name:  Anthony Nelson Born: Bangor Died: February 2009 Height: Weight: Position:  Outside-Right Representative Honours:  Northern Ireland: 1 Amateur Cap (1966) Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Bangor - - Amateur - - - Glentoran 65/66 Jan-66 - *15/6 - - Bangor - - - - - - TOTALS - £- - - - * all games Biography: To follow. Bangor FC Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details: 15-01-1966 Wales... H D 0-0 Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 1, Lost 0.

Liam Nolan

Name: Liam Joseph Nolan Born: 20 September 1994, Liverpool Height: 5.09 ft / 1.75 m Weight: 10.12 st / 69 kg Position: Midfielder Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Under-21 Cap, Youth. Club Career: Teams ...... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- -League- FA Cup FL Cup Other Everton ...................... Youth Crewe Alex.  13/14-14/15  ......   Youth 14(12)/0 ...... 2(0)/0 1(0)/0 Blackburn R.  .......... Jul-15 Trial . 0 (0)/0 Southport .   15/16-16/17 Aug-15 . Free (National League) Accrington . 17/18- date May-17 . Free Biography: Liam Nolan was a member of Everton's Academy before being released at the age of 16. He followed the well-worn path to Crewe Alexandra, where he made his professional debut against Oldham in September 2013. After an impressive first season, during which he added a Northern Ireland Under-21 cap to those he had won as a youth at the 2013 Milk Cup, he was offered a contract extension. In his second season as a ...

Colin Nixon

Name: Colin Nixon Born: 8 September 1978, Newtownards Height: 5.11 ft Weight: 11.00 st Position: Right-Back Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Under-21 Cap (1999) , 5 Under-18 Schoolboy Caps (1996-1997) , 14 Under-16 Schoolboy Caps (1993-1994) ; Irish League Representative. Club Honours: (with Glentoran) Irish League Champion 1998/99, 2002/03, 2004/05, 2008/09 ; Irish Cup Winner ... 2012/13 ; Irish League Cup Winner; Co. Antrim Shield Winner. Club Career: Teams ... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- League FA Cup FL Cup Europe Other St Andrews Boys Club ....... Youth  Glentoran   95/96-12/13     1993 Youth  Bangor .. 13/14-15/16  May-13 . Free Larne ... 15/16  .....  Jan-16 Biography: Multi-honoured defender and captain of Glentoran, Colin Nixon won four Irish League titles and five Irish Cups during a near-two-decade career at the Oval. After close to 800 appearances he was released at the end of the 2012/13 seas...

Rab Newberry

Name: Robert Newberry Born: Belfast Height: 5.10½ ft Weight: 11.06 st Position: Centre-Half Representative Honours: Ireland: 2 Amateur Caps (1956) ; Irish League: 1 Cap (1956). Club Honours: Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Other Distillery - - Amateur - - - Ards - - Amateur - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: Younger brother of Alex, formerly of Belfast Celtic, Rab Newberry was a back who reveled in a hard fought game. More to follow. Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details: 21-01-1956 Wales... H W 2-1 25-02-1956 Scotland A W 3-1 Summary: 2/0. Won 2, Drew 0, Lost 0.

Billy Neill

Name: William Neill Born: 1929, Belfast Died: 28 October 1997, Belfast Height: 5.11 ft Weight: 11.06 st Position: Right-Back Representative Honours: Ireland: Junior Caps; Irish League: 14 Caps (1952-1959) ; Irish FA: Representative (1953-1958) . Club Honours: (with Glentoran) Irish League Champion 1952/53 ; Irish Cup Runner-Up 1951/52, 1953/54, 1955/56 ; Gold Cup Winner 1951/52, 1960/61 ; City Cup Winner 1952/53, 1956/57 ; Ulster Cup Winner 1952/53 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner 1951/52, 1956/57 . Awards: Ulster Footballer of the Year 1960. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Europe Other Glentoran 50/51-62/63 - - *473/14 - 1/0 - TOTALS - £- 473/14 - 1/0 - Biography: In the immediate post-war era Jimmy Geary brought a plethora of young talent to Glentoran via t...

Oliver Norwood

Name:   Oliver James Norwood Born:   12 April 1991, Burnley (England) Height:   5.11 ft Weight:   12.00 st Position:   Midfielder Representative Honours:   Northern Ireland: Full   (2010-date) , 1 B Cap   (2009) , Under-21   (2009-date) , Youth; England: Youth. Club Honours: (with Brighton) EFL Championship Runner-up 2016/17 (promoted); (with Fulham) EFL Championship Play-Off Winner (promoted) 2017/18.   Club Career: Teams ......... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- -League- FA Cup FL Cup Other Manchester U. ............. 2007 Youth . 0(0)/ 0 Carlisle U. .. 10/11 ..... Sep-10 . Loan . 4(2)/ 0 ............. 1(0)/0 Scunthorpe U. 11/12 ..... Aug-11 . Loan 14(1)/ 1 0(1)/0 1(0)/0 1(0)/0 Coventry City 11/12 ..... Jan-12 . Loan 17(1)/ 2 Huddersfield. 12/13-13/14  Jun-12 ..... 75(5)/ 8 4(2)/1 4(0)/0 Reading ..... 14/15-15/16  Aug-14 £1.2m 75(6)/ 4 8(1)/1 2(0)/0 Brighton & HA 16/17- date Aug-16 U...

Jim Nolan-Whelan

Name: James Valentine Joseph Nolan * Born: 22 October 1880, Dublin Died: April 1950, Dublin Position: Goalkeeper (* Between his second and third caps his name was changed by deed-pole to Nolan-Whelan) Representative Honours: Ireland: 5 Full Caps (1901-1902) . Club Honours: (with Freebooters) Irish Cup Runner-Up 1900/01 . Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Others Dublin . Freebooters 97/98 - 03/04 - Amateur - - - Oxford University 02/03 -1902 Amateur - - - Corinthians - - Amateur - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: One of the youngest goalkeepers ever to take the field for Ireland, Jim Nolan-Whelan was just 20 years and 138 days old when he made his international d...

Rab Nixon

Name: Robert J. Nixon Born: Died: Height: Weight: Position: Inside-Right Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Full Cap (1914) ; Irish League: 3 Caps / 2 Goals (1914) . Club Honours: (with Linfield) Irish League Champion; Irish Cup Winner 1912/13, 1914/15, 1915/16 , Runner-Up 1913/14, 1917/18 ; Co. Antrim Shield Winner; Belfast & District "War-Time" League Champion. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA Cup Other Linfield - - - - - - TOTALS - £- - - - Biography: Rab Nixon was granted his only cap due to the unavailability of Billy Gillespie for the key 1914 Home Nations tie with Scotland. Even then cicumstance favoured Nixon as the first choice replacement, Bradford Park Avenue’s Jack McCandless, failed to secure a release from his club and so in came Nixon at inside-right, with Linfield teammate Sam Young moving to centre-forward. It proved ...

Harry Nicholl

Name: Henry* Nicholl Born: 30 October 1875, Enniskillen Died: 21 August 1911, Belfast Height: Weight: Position: Left-Half Representative Honours: Ireland: 3 Full Caps (1902-1905) ; Irish League: 6 Caps (1899-1904) . Club Honours: (with Belfast Celtic) Irish League Champion 1899/1900 , Runner-Up 1904/05 ; Irish Cup Runner-Up 1905/06 ; City Cup Winner 1905/06 , Runner-Up 1901/02, 1902/03 ; Belfast Charity Cup Winner 1903/04 ; Co. Antrim Shield Runner-Up 1903/04. Club Career: Teams Seasons Signed Fee League FA . Cup Others Belfast Celtic - - - - Liverpool 97/98 Aug-1897 - 0/ 0 - - Belfast Celtic 98/99-01/02 -1898 - - - - Third Lanark 02/03 - - 1/ 0 - - Belfast Celtic 03/...