Laura Donnelly starred in tv show based on a Northern Irish professional footballer who won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year, who was this football player?
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Laura Donnelly (actress) Laura Donnelly (born 20 August 1982) is an actress from Northern Ireland. She made her on-screen debut in 2005 in the Channel 4 drama "Sugar Rush", where she featured as a love interest of the female protagonist in two episodes. She is also known for appearing in "Casualty", "Hex", and as a main character in the Irish film "Insatiable" (2008). She also starred in "", a BBC drama on the life of George Best, playing Best's sister, Barbara. She starred in Jez Butterworth's new play, "The River" at the Royal Court Theatre, alongside Dominic West and Miranda Raison. She reprised her role in the Broadway production alongside Hugh Jackman.
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George Best George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger for Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team. In 1968, he won the European Cup with Manchester United, and was named the European Footballer of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year. The Irish Football Association described him as the "greatest player to ever pull on the green shirt of Northern Ireland".
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Jackie Brown (footballer) Jackie Brown (8 November 1914 – 1990), also referred to as Johnny Brown or John Brown, was a dual internationalist who played football for both Ireland teams – the IFA XI and FAI XI. He was born in Belfast, Ireland.
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Billy Whelan William Augustine Whelan (1 April 1935 – 6 February 1958), also known as Billy Whelan or Liam Whelan, was an Irish footballer and one of the eight Manchester United players who were killed in the Munich air disaster. He was 22 years old when he died.
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Michael Duffy (footballer) Michael Duffy (born 28 July 1994) is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Dundalk.
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Frank Haydock Frank Haydock (born 29 November 1940) is an English former footballer who played at centre-half for several clubs, including Manchester United, Charlton Athletic and Portsmouth. His brother, Billy, was also a professional footballer who played for Manchester City, Crewe Alexandra and Stockport County.
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Keith O'Neill (footballer) Keith O'Neill (born 16 February 1976 in Dublin) is a former professional footballer who represented the Republic of Ireland. He played as a left-sided midfielder, but could sometimes play as a striker. Despite being an exceptionally talented youngster, his career was ultimately cut-short by successive injuries caused by a degenerative bone disease.
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Denis Law Denis Law, CBE (born 24 February 1940) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward. His career as a football player began at Second Division Huddersfield Town in 1956. After four years at Huddersfield, he was signed by Manchester City for a transfer fee of £55,000, which set a new British record. Law spent one year there before Torino bought him for £110,000, this time setting a new record fee for a transfer involving a British player. Although he played well in Italy, he found it difficult to settle there and signed for Manchester United in 1962, setting another British record transfer fee of £115,000.
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Bunny Larkin Bernard Patrick "Bunny" Larkin (born 11 January 1936) is an English former professional footballer who played at inside forward or wing half. He played in the First Division of the Football League and in European competition for Birmingham City, and in the Football League for Norwich City, Doncaster Rovers, Watford and Lincoln City.
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Declan Rice Declan Rice (born 14 January 1999) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for West Ham United as a defender.
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David Partridge David William Partridge (born 26 November 1978) is retired professional footballer who played as a central defender. He represented Wales in international football, making seven appearances. Partridge's club career included spells at Dundee United and Motherwell in Scotland, Bristol City in England and St. Patrick's Athletic in Ireland, as well as several other clubs on loan. He ended his career in English non-League football, with Cambridge United and Thurrock.
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Terry Neill William John Terence "Terry" Neill (born 8 May 1942) is a Northern Ireland former football player and manager. He captained and later managed Arsenal, guiding the club to a European final in 1980 and three consecutive FA Cup finals between 1978 and 1980, winning a dramatic final against Manchester United in 1979. Before his seven-year spell as manager of Arsenal, he managed Hull City, Tottenham Hotspur and Northern Ireland on a part-time basis.
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Johnny Carey John James "Johnny" Carey (23 February 1919 – 22 August 1995), also known as Jackie Carey, was an Irish professional footballer and manager. As a player Carey spent most of his career at Manchester United, where he was team captain from 1946 until he retired as a player in 1953. He was also a dual internationalist, playing for and captaining both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI. In 1947 he also captained a Europe XI which played a Great Britain XI at Hampden Park. In 1949 he was voted the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year and in the same year captained the FAI XI that defeated England 2–0 at Goodison Park, becoming the first non-UK team to beat England at home. Carey was also the first non-UK player and the first Irishman to captain a winning team in both an FA Cup Final and the First Division. Like his contemporary Con Martin, Carey was an extremely versatile footballer and played in nine different positions throughout his career. He even played in goal for United on one occasion.
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Amy McCann (footballer) Amy McCann (born 26 October 1983 in Walsall) is an English–born Northern Irish footballer, who has represented clubs including Wolverhampton Wanderers Women, Everton and Birmingham City Ladies as a striker. McCann has played for Northern Ireland at senior international level.
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John Fashanu John Fashanu ( , born 18 September 1962), often referred to as Fash, is an English television presenter and former professional footballer of Nigerian (paternal) and Guyanese (maternal) descent. In his former career, he was a centre-forward from 1978 until 1995, most notably in an eight-year spell at Wimbledon F.C. in which he won the FA Cup in 1988 and scored over 100 goals in all competitions.
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Michael Doyle (footballer, born 1981) Michael Paul Doyle (born 8 August 1981) is an Irish footballer, who plays for Coventry City FC. Born in Dublin, Doyle started his career at Celtic before a spell on loan in Denmark playing for AGF Aarhus. He subsequently spent the majority of his career at Coventry City and Sheffield United. Doyle has also been capped once by the Republic of Ireland.
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George O'Boyle George O'Boyle (born 14 December 1967 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer.
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Lee Fitzpatrick Lee Gareth Fitzpatrick (born 31 October 1978) in Manchester, England, is an English retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Blackburn Rovers and Hartlepool United in the Football League.
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Jonathan Walters Jonathan Ronald Walters (born 20 September 1983) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Burnley and the Republic of Ireland national team.
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Ciaran Donnelly Ciaran Donnelly (born 2 April 1984) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kendal Town. He is also a coach for Blackpool.
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1998–99 UEFA Champions League The 1998–99 UEFA Champions League was the 44th season of the UEFA Champions League, Europe's premier club football tournament, and the seventh since it was renamed from the "European Champion Clubs' Cup" or "European Cup". The competition was won by Manchester United, coming back from a goal down in the last two minutes of injury time to defeat Bayern Munich 2–1 in the final. Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored United's goals after Bayern had hit the post and the bar. They were the first English club to win Europe's premier club football tournament since 1984 and were also the first English club to reach a Champions League final since the Heysel Stadium disaster and the subsequent banning of English clubs from all UEFA competitions between 1985 and 1990.
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1999–2000 Manchester United F.C. season The 1999–2000 season was Manchester United's eighth season in the Premier League, and their 25th consecutive season in the top division of English football. United won the Premier League title for the sixth time in eight seasons (with a record 18-point margin and 97 goals scored) as well as becoming the first British club to win the Intercontinental Cup when they defeated Palmeiras 1-0 in Tokyo. However, they surrendered their European Cup title with a 3–2 defeat by eventual champions Real Madrid in the quarter-finals. The club controversially did not defend their FA Cup crown, upon request by The Football Association, to compete in the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship in Brazil instead.