MARK MC NULTY has won SSE Airtricity League/Soccer Writers’ Association of Ireland Player of the Month for November.
The 37-year-old goalkeeper proved Cork City’s penalty shootout hero in their FAI Cup final victory over Dundalk – keeping out Michael Duffy’s spot-kick at the Aviva Stadium earlier this month.
McNulty, who signed a new two-year deal with the double-winners last week, beat off competition from team-mate Conor McCormack and Dundalk pair Duffy and Gary Rogers to claim the final POTM of 2017.
“I’m absolutely delighted,” McNulty said. “It’s an unbelievable way to end the season. You win the league, you win the FAI Cup and then to top it off you win the Player of the Month, which is obviously brilliant.
“At the start of the season you set out an aim and that’s to win as many trophies as you can as a group and a team. Obviously we set out our objectives at the start of the season to win trophies, which we did.
Individual trophies come after the team but every player likes to win individual honours. I’m absolutely delighted, it’s a huge honour to receive it. Not many keepers receive these awards so I must have done something right.
“There are a lot of top keepers in the league and it’s usually the top outfield players – the guys banging in the goals – who get these awards.
“As a goalkeeper, and on behalf of all goalkeepers, it’s a hard thing to get. That’s why I’m absolutely delighted to get it. I know it’s a tough award to win, especially as a goalkeeper, so I take huge pride in this.”
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The David Connolly(?) story was the best!
Connolly became big headed when they named the train station after him. I knew it was a mistake.
@GARFARKLE: I hope he doesn’t turn out like Whitney Heuston.
@John Smith: must’ve indulged in Dutch culture a bit too much when he played reserve football there
@Armchair Follower: brilliant
@Armchair Follower: she did go off the rails in fairness
@GARFARKLE: bit of a ceannt alright
Reid was treated disgracefully. He wasn’t the Irish messi – he could however do something few others in the team were capable of – play a forward pass and keep possession.
@Colm O’Sullivan: And, play the guitar.
Good luck to arter, he has been weak for us in most of the games he has played.
How many grannies did Stephen ireland-ish say he had again ? Lol
@paul fennelly For the record, 1. Roy Keane complained about the training facilities several times during home matches before the World Cup. 2. McCarthy promised everything would be sorted by the World Cup. 3. Keane threatened to walk out of tournament on reaching Saipan because of the substandard facilities 4. He was convinced to stay for the sake of the fans 5. Next morning McCarthy called a meeting with everyone involved in the squad except for Keane and then he sent someone for Keane after everyone else had turned up. He confronted him in front of everyone about an interview only just published that he had given several days before and after an argument he sent Keane home. RESULT Keane was SENT home. This is fact, why do people insist that he walked out?
@John Mullin: You obviously haven’t read his own book. Funny as you sound like such a fan
Stephen Ireland’s career went downhill when granny-gate happened for both club and country. His head has never been screwed on. Only himself to blame.