FORMER MERVUE UNITED players, Greg Cunningham and Ryan Manning faced each other in the Championship yesterday for Preston North End’s meeting with QPR.
The pair are originally next-door neighbours, who grew up together just outside Galway City and their rise to Championship football, culminated in yesterday’s clash.
Cunningham celebrated the event on his Twitter account:
Manning signed a contract extension with QPR at the end of January, after making his first team debut against Wolves on New Year’s Eve. He began his career at Mervue United before joining Galway United in 2014.
Meanwhile, Cunningham made his 200th appearance in English league football appearance last month.
Yesterday’s match also featured a superb goal from Ireland’s Aiden McGeady from distance just before half-time.
McGeady seems to have settled at Preston after a tumultuous period in his club career.
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Great to see Robbie in form, in a decent league pre Euros… But let’s hope trap is paying attention to the fine performances of ciaran Clarke too!
Ciaran Clark has to go to the Euros. He will be important in the WC 2014 qualifiers and a good player for us for years to come hopefully. His goal in the cup a few weeks ago was class.
Keane is getting some great confidence boosters here. Hopefully this can continue to the summer. But defender and goalkeeper need to up the game. (oshea and given).
Pilkington of Norwich is class and should be in traps squad aswell
Duffer answered rumours of being sold by Fulham
Keane is on fire two absolutely top drawer goals and was Scholes like playing in front of mid field.
I think an important question to ask is why Robbie Keane joined LA Galaxy if he still can play at a decent level if not the premiere league then surely the championship is better quality then the MLS…