England Legends v Ireland Legends

mike65

A bit of a laugh pity its not on a proper channel

Former Manchester United team-mates Lee Sharpe and Dennis Irwin have become the first name on their nation's respective teamsheets for The Legends: England v Republic of Ireland which takes place at Fulham Football Club's Craven Cottage on Thursday October 9th, kicking off at 7.45pm.

Sharpe will be making his fourth appearance in an England Legends jersey. The 37-year old former United midfielder, who has already scored twice for The England Legends, earned a Cup Winners' Cup medal at Old Trafford before moving on to Leeds for £4.5m in 1996. He has played for the England national team on eight occasions.

England Legends Manager Peter Reid confirmed: "Sharpey is an important member of the England Legends and gives us real mobility on that left hand side. He was one of the players to come out of the Germany game with real credit, grabbing the only England goal. I know he's desperate to get England back to winning ways against Ireland."

42-year old Dennis Irwin made 56 appearances for his country, including two USA '94 starts, as well as 368 appearances for Manchester United where he won the Champions League trophy, Cup Winners Cups, seven Premiership titles, three FA Cups and one League Cup. Irwin also played for Leeds United, Oldham and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

The 2008 Legends Series The Legends: England v Republic of Ireland is the third game in The England Legends' 2008 Legends Series. The England Legends beat The Scotland Legends 2-0 at St. Mary's Stadium Southampton on Thursday May 15th and lose 5-1 to The Germany Legends. The game is the sixth in England Legends history. The Legends have also drawn 3-3 and lost 5-1 to The Italy Legends and beaten The Rest of the World Legends 4-2.

The Legends: England v Republic of Ireland will compete for The Johnny Haynes Memorial Cup in a game which will be screened live on ITV4 from 7pm.

Anyone got the full line ups?

Mike

citytillidie

Unless it only works up North you can stream ITV4 from the ITV website.

pickarooney

Irwin played for Leeds? Never knew that.

Also crazy that he had fewer caps at full-back than Kevin 'no disrespect but' Kilbane.

Charlie

Anyone with Sky can manually tune in ITV4 (along with all the ITV channels)

Nalz

pickarooney wrote: »

Irwin played for Leeds? Never knew that.

yep, he went for shag all to Oldham before joining United.

OPENROAD

I think I read that The Merse is playing for England.

Mr.Nice Guy

Apparently these are the teams...

Ireland...

http://www.itv.com/Sport/Football/Legends/Irelandteam/default.html

England...

http://www.itv.com/Sport/Football/Legends/Englandteam/default.html

This looks like being a lot of fun.

The_Hustler

citytillidie wrote: »

Unless it only works up North you can stream ITV4 from the ITV website.

Like BBC, this does only seem to work in the UK.

citytillidie

just seen it's on setanta aswell

Zaph

pickarooney wrote: »

Irwin played for Leeds? Never knew that.

Yep, he started at Leeds and was sold by Billy Bremner. Not the greatest piece of transfer business the club has ever done. Bremner also sold Terry Phelan the same season.

mike65

Hmm England leg-ends should walk it

Mike

OPENROAD

mike65 wrote: »

Hmm England leg-ends should walk it

Mike

With the Romford Pelé playing it will be a walk in the park

iregk

For those that have sky digital you can add all the ITV channels in services other channels. There are a rake load of extra channels you can add in.

Kingp35

No Terry Phelan?

pickarooney

The England team certainly looks the better equipped but who knows what kind of training they've all been keeping up since they retired. Seems strange to have Sheringham in there, no? I know he's 49 but still he was playing top-level football only a few months ago.

Aquos76

pickarooney wrote: »

The England team certainly looks the better equipped but who knows what kind of training they've all been keeping up since they retired. Seems strange to have Sheringham in there, no? I know he's 49 but still he was playing top-level football only a few months ago.

Where are you going with 49, He is only 42

JimiTime

Aquos76 wrote: »

Where are you going with 49, He is only 42

Feels like he's bin around forever. Think he has a WC winers medal for '66 doesn't he:)

OPENROAD

Anyone else watching this tonight?

Mr.Nice Guy

Yeah I have Setanta on so I'll give it a look.

MagicMarker

Just switched over... now we know why it's in Craven Cottage!!

DSB

A good few of that Irish team aren't even close to warranting the legend tag.

Mr.Nice Guy

3-3 with a minute to go. Looks like penalties...

OPENROAD

Nigel Winterburn scores the winning penalty

Pigman II

Is that McGoldrick? He looks as fat as ever.

How come England have appeared to have a got a real team together but we're thowing in "never was's" like Owen Coyle, Liam O'Brien, Kelham O'Hanlon etc? I guess fair play to them for getting 3-3 with players like that.

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Am I alone in thinking "Who the holy feck is Kelham O'Hanlon"?

Pigman II

Des wrote: »

Am I alone in thinking "Who the holy feck is Kelham O'Hanlon"?

You don't know him? He's the goalie who the ITV blurb boast "never condeded a goal for Ireland". What they may have forgotten to mention was it was mainly cos he only ever played one game for us, a one sided friendly at Dalymount Park most noteable for the debut of Chris Morris and David Kelly.

newballsplease

DSB wrote: »

A good few of that Irish team aren't even close to warranting the legend tag.

and for England- sharpe, solako, woods, parlour etc are????

OPENROAD

newballsplease wrote: »

and for England- sharpe, solako, woods, parlour etc are????

Ray Parlour is

newballsplease

OPENROAD wrote: »

Ray Parlour is

A legend in the garden maybe........... lol

OPENROAD

newballsplease wrote: »

:eek::D

shane86

DSB wrote: »

A good few of that Irish team aren't even close to warranting the legend tag.

One of them got a single cap in a 1993 friendly against Holland (IIRC)


Cant wait for the 2030 legends match. Sean St Ledger and Joe Lapira vs a Jimmy Bullard captained team :pac: Maybe Stephen Ireland will make a guest appearance.


Only caught the last, cracking move for our third. Found myself roaring during the penos

Pigman II

shane86 wrote: »

Cant wait for the 2030 legends match. Sean St Ledger and Joe Lapira vs a Jimmy Bullard captained team :pac: Maybe Stephen Ireland will make a guest appearance.

It's possible. After all they predict to have a cure for hair loss by then.

Galvasean

Eddie McGoldrick blazes a penalty over the bar. where have I seen tat before?