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Analysis of Barnsley s 2-2 draw with Norwich City on the last day of the Championship season.
REDS MUCH BETTER IN GOOD WARM-UP FOR PLAY-OFFS
This game was seen as a perfect warm-up for the play-offs, against a high-quality side who play the possession-based football often employed by the sides Barnsley will face in their battle to reach the Premier League throughout May.
Although they were without key players Teemu Pukki and Oliver Skipp and had already won the title, Norwich provided a stern final day test.
Their squad had been recruited for about £20million – much more than Barnsley s but far less than some of their play-off rivals – while ten of them were full internationals and nine of the starters had played in the Premier League.
12.15 9 May 2021
In November 1993, the IRA Ceasefire was just around the corner, though most people couldn’t possibly have known it.
It had been a brutal year in the North with some of the worst atrocities of the conflict including the Greysteel Massacre in Derry.
In such an atmosphere, perhaps the last thing Ireland needed was a World Cup qualifier between her two jurisdictions and footballing representatives but that is exactly what happened.
The name of Alan McLoughlin will forever be synonymous with that famous match in Windsor Park, scoring the goal that sent Ireland to the 1994 World Cup in the United States.
); The only time I ever saw him cry was when he recalled the end of his Ireland career
Bryce Evans and Terry Phelan pay tribute to the late Alan McLoughlin. By Paul Fennessy Sunday 9 May 2021, 8:00 AM May 9th 2021, 8:00 AM 24,295 Views 12 Comments
IT WAS A sad week for Irish football, as it was announced on Tuesday that Alan McLoughlin had died at the age of 54.
Obituaries were inevitably dominated by his famous goal against Northern Ireland at Windsor Park that secured the Republic’s qualification for the 1994 World Cup and is widely considered one of the most iconic moments in Irish sport, but both on and off the field, there was far more to McLoughlin than just that game.
REACTION
Scott Twine dedicated both of his goals to former mentor Alan McLoughlin who passed away this week Photo: Rob Noyes SCOTT Twine said he hopes his two goals in Swindon Town’s 4-3 win over Wigan Athletic on Sunday made his former mentor Alan McLoughlin proud. McLoughlin was academy manager at the County Ground, helping to bring through players such as Scott Twine and Harry Parsons – both of whom were involved as Town came from 3-1 down to beat the Latics 4-3 at the weekend. The Swindon legend’s old club was involved in an action-packed second half at the DW Stadium in which Twine scored a brace to add to Tyler Smith and Hallam Hope’s solitary strikes.
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