We acquired him by paying him £6,000 a week if I remember correctly.
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We acquired him by paying him £6,000 a week if I remember correctly.
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thats humongous,even back then,no wonder we booed the ****.
He only played 6 games by the end of the season!
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played about 20 over two seasons.
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Sammy McIlroy - Manchester City Player Statistics - StatCity
Check out his bio, where he ranks for appearances, goals, who he's apppeared alongside and much more!
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My memo6is obviously fading.
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Best, Whiteside, McIlroy, McCreery, all Ulster Protestants from the die-hard East Belfast area and scouted by the rags. The Catholic/Protestant thing has been bollocks for decades in Manchester.
Rangers hero's family 'ordered' to leave home as he played for 'Catholic' club
HE grew up at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and forged a 25-year career in professional football. One that took him to either side of the Atlantic ocean and into a 33-year spell in…
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Not to some.
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That was N.Ireland, not Manchester.Rangers hero's family 'ordered' to leave home as he played for 'Catholic' club
HE grew up at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and forged a 25-year career in professional football. One that took him to either side of the Atlantic ocean and into a 33-year spell in…
Not to some.
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I'm very surprised at that story from McIlroy/find it hard to believe.
Why didn't they go to Best, Whiteside or Johnny Evans house and tell them to leave United?
The 3 most supported teams in loyalist areas here are Rangers obviously followed by Liverpool and Man Utd.
Chelsea are well supported but not to the levels of the two red shites.
Plenty of people that I've known or worked with over the years from East Belfast/Rathcoole/the Shankill are big United fans.
Why didn't they go to Best, Whiteside or Johnny Evans house and tell them to leave United?
The 3 most supported teams in loyalist areas here are Rangers obviously followed by Liverpool and Man Utd.
Chelsea are well supported but not to the levels of the two red shites.
Plenty of people that I've known or worked with over the years from East Belfast/Rathcoole/the Shankill are big United fans.
I think one of the few things both sides of the religious divide have in Northern Ireland is support for the 'ugly sisters', it was the 1970s when the troubles were at their most vicious which might explain this story.
And i'd argue that south of the border the support for the two clubs is even more prevalent, got to take my hat off to any blues across the Irish sea surrounded by a sea of red many of whom were here when we were shit.
Interesting how things wax and wane with the times...but yes I'm talking about 80s and early 90s - in that period the United fans I knew were generally Irish Mancs - and my dad, an armchair Red who loved to drink in Irish pubs - but City were bigger to my memory, not to mention the sheer number of City pubs that were in the area those days. Mad that were so many United lads at St Edwards in the 60s when it was so close to the ground...maybe Munich and an RC thing?