Which retired English footballer and current sports broadcaster once praised Irish footballer Christopher Forrester?
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Christopher Forrester Christopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992 in Smithfield, Dublin) is an Irish footballer currently playing for Peterborough United in League 1. In 2016, he came to prominence in Britain during a televised FA Cup game, earning praise from Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer. He was subject to an array of bids from Wolves, QPR, and Derby on the opening day of the January 2017 transfer window.
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Gary Lineker Gary Winston Lineker, OBE ( ; born 30 November 1960) is an English retired footballer and current sports broadcaster. He holds England's record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored. Lineker's media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship programme "Match of the Day" since the late 1990s. He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports, Eredivisie Live, NBC Sports Network and currently hosts BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League.
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Des Cahill Desmond "Des" Cahill (born 12 December 1959) is an Irish sports presenter and commentator with national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann. Presenter of RTÉ television's hugely popular GAA programme, "The Sunday Game" & RTÉ's flagship weekend sports radio programme, "Saturday Sport". He is also the regular weekday morning Sports Presenter on "Morning Ireland" & "Today with Sean O'Rourke" programmes. He presents "Up For The Match" at the hugely popular pre-All Ireland Final TV programmes.
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Andy O'Brien (footballer) Andrew James "Andy" O'Brien (born 29 June 1979) is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
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Chris Coleman (footballer) Christopher Patrick Coleman, OBE (born 10 June 1970) is a Welsh professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of the Wales national team.
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Neil Cordy Neil Cordy (born 8 April 1959) is a former Australian rules footballer and now television presenter.
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Gary Rowell Gary Rowell (born 6 June 1957) is an English former footballer—most notably with Sunderland—and a current local (North East) radio football commentator and newspaper columnist.
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Chris Banks (footballer) Christopher Noel Banks (born 12 November 1965) is an English former professional football defender, now a physiotherapist at Stoke City.
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Wes Hoolahan Wesley "Wes" Hoolahan (born 20 May 1982) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for English club Norwich City and the Republic of Ireland national team. Hoolahan began his playing career with Shelbourne and has previously played for Livingston and Blackpool. He was the subject of a contested transfer between these two clubs in 2007, eventually requiring mediation by FIFA before he was able to sign for Blackpool. Hoolahan has played more than 250 games for Norwich, where he earned nicknames like The Irish Messi or Wessi.
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Chris Carruthers Christopher Paul Carruthers (born 19 August 1983) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a defender or a midfielder.
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Alan Lee (footballer) Alan Desmond Lee (born 21 August 1978) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker; he is now working as an academy coach at Ipswich Town. He scored 119 goals in 547 appearances in a 19-year professional career in the Football League, and won 10 caps for the Republic of Ireland.
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Chris Birchall Christopher Birchall CM (born 5 May 1984) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He scored 21 goals in 322 league and cup appearances in a 16-year professional career, and scored four goals in 43 international matches.
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Eamon Dunphy Eamon Martin Dunphy (born 3 August 1945) is an Irish media personality, journalist, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer. He grew up playing football for several youth teams including Stella Maris. Since retiring from the sport, he has become recognisable to Irish television audiences as a football analyst during coverage of the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and international football on RTÉ.
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Richard Kennedy (footballer) Richard Joseph Kennedy (born 28 August 1978) is an Irish retired football midfielder. He began his career in the youth system at Crystal Palace and made his Football League debut in 1999 while at Brentford. Kennedy won three League of Wales and Welsh Cup doubles with Barry Town between 2001 and 2003 and played in the Champions League with the club. Kennedy retired in 2006 and is now a personal trainer and a fitness coach at Clonmel Town.
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Frank Keating (journalist) Francis Vincent "Frank" Keating (4 October 1937 – 25 January 2013) was an English sports journalist and author, who was best known for his regular columns in "The Guardian" newspaper. Keating was described as "a giant of sports journalism" by journalist Phil Shaw in his obituary for "The Independent" newspaper.
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Matty Geoghegan Matthew "Matty" Geoghegan was a Republic of Ireland international footballer.
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Kit Lawlor John Christopher "Kit" Lawlor (born 3 December 1922 in Dublin – died 8 June 2004) was an Irish professional football player.
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Chris Grocock Christopher Richard Grocock (born 30 October 1968) is an English lawyer and former professional footballer.
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Tommy Casey Thomas "Tommy" Casey (11 March 1930 – 13 January 2009) was a Northern Ireland international footballer, coach and football manager, whose career in professional football spanned 30 years.
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Ryan Dicker Ryan Dicker (born 22 September 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Leek Town and the British Virgin Islands national football team.
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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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John Barnes (footballer) John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is an English former footballer, rapper and manager, who currently works as a commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport. A fast, skilful left winger, Barnes had successful periods at Watford and Liverpool in the 1980s and 1990s, and played for the England national team on 79 occasions. In 2006, in a poll of Liverpool fans' favourite players, Barnes came fifth; a year later "FourFourTwo" magazine named him Liverpool's best player of all time.