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April 2001 News

Follow the news of the offspring of the class of 70-71 !

See Sons and Daughters

30 April

Dalglish Off !

Paul Dalglish - Kenny's (Celtic squad) son - has been on loan from Norwich City to Wigan Athletic since March 22nd. This may have passed by unnoticed on Bob's 70-71 Pages , but for the fact that he managed to get himself sent off twice in three days over successive matches ! Wigan's home match to Oxford United and away match against Bury, were both victories, but ended more quickly for Paul, than his teammates...

Paul was on loan for a month and managed 5 appearances in the number 32 shirt, but didn't score. Wigan stand a very good chance of making the Division Two play-offs in 6th positon.

SeeWigan Athletic A.F.C. - Paul Dalglish

Ian Moore On

Ian Moore is finally added to Bob's 70-71 Pages! Ian's Dad, Ronnie Moore (Tranmere Rovers) has just won promotion to Division One, so it seemed like a good time. Ronnie himself was only added last month. Ian began the season as a Stockport County favourite, but has since moved to Burnley in Division One. Burnley have just missed out on a play-off place this season.

Ian scored 20 League goals in 93 games for Stockport, and cost Burnley one million pounds! So far he's already scored six times in 28 games (or 5 in 24 League games) and three of those were this month.

To date Ian has scored 12 League goals and 14 total goals this season, which must make him one of the highest scoring Next Generation stars in 2000-2001.

For April's goals see Preston North End Apr 7th (a 3-0 home win)
Wimbledon April 10th (a 2-0 away win)
Norwich City Apr 16th (a 3-2 away win, in which Ian got the winner!)

See BurnleyFC Ian Moore

25 April

Redknapp Returns !

Jamie Redknapp - Harry's son - has begun his comeback following the knee operation that has kept him out of the Liverpool and England sides all season. Last Monday he played for Liverpool Reserves at Anfield against Blackburn Rovers. It was a goalless draw, but Jamie did have one of the game's best chances when his shot struck the post from a long range effort. Jamie completed 60 minutes of the game.

Meanwhile Jamie has been keeping up his off-field activities and was featured in 7 April 2001 edition of the weekly 'Match' magazine launching England's new 3 Lions mascots. The famous three lions on the England badge have been brought to life as large blue-foam based entities, dressed in the 3 current England shirts - white, red and black-goalkeeper. See The 3 Lions

The idea is to appeal to children. You can almost see the scene , 'Hmm I think I'll knock the cr*p out of Stone Cold Steve Austin on the Playstation ... no hold on I saw a large blue foam lion yesterday, let's play footie instead!'

Fergie Scores !

Only noticed this one goal from the Next Generation stars this Saturday ...

See Red Passion - Match Day

18 April

Nine Goals in Nine Days !

See

Gemmill in Scotland Squad

Well done to Scot Gemmill - Archie's (Preston North End) son, who has kept his place in the Scotland squad to play in the friendly against Poland on 25 April.

See BBC SPORT SCOTLAND Scotland call-ups for uncapped trio

9 April

Two Times Two-Two

Two more next Generation goals from two games that ended 2-2 !

See

Lampard West Ham United FC -org The Official Web Site
Currie http--www.barnetfc.com-apr2001-cheltenhamreport.htm

Oakes Out

Unlucky Andy Oakes, - Alan's nephew (Manchester City)- who had finally broken into the Derby County team, is now out till the end of the season with injury.The Official site at http--www.dcfc.co.uk-press-index.asppr_id=1710 reports

Andy Oakes will be out for six weeks after injuring the medial ligament in his right knee during Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Coventry City.

The 24-year-old was stretchered off with ten minutes gone at Highfield Road after he was in collision with Moustapha Hadji when racing out of his area to collect a poor Darryl Powell back-pass

Subsequent scans on Monday showed that he had picked up a third degree sprain of his medial ligament, meaning a lengthy spell on the sidelines.

The goalkeeper, who came into the side after Mart Poom injured his shoulder against Charlton, started six games for the Rams before Saturday's clash - including featuring in a run of five unbeaten league games where the Rams picked up 11 points.

4 April

Todd Scores ! - First For Charlton

Well done to Andy Todd - Colin's son (Sunderland) - for scoring his first goal for Charlton Athletic. It was also his first goal in the Premiership since the last day of the 1995-96 season, when he scored for Bolton Wanderers against Arsenal in a 2-1 defeat.

This goal against Leicester City last Saturday opened the scoring in the 33rd minute, and the game ended up 2-0 to Charlton Athletic. This was a something of a 'six-pointer' for two teams, who will be battling for a UEFA Cup place if they can end the seasons with a good run. Charlton are 8th in the League and on Sunday were only 5 points from a Champions League place. Ipswich's victory has since increased this to 7 points, however.

SeeCAFC for a match report and CAFC - goal for a picture

Gray Moves

Stuart Gray - Eddie's son - has been released by Reading at the end of his contrct. He has now moved to Confernce League leaders Rushton and Diamonds. Hence, he stands an excellent chance of returing to League football by next season. Rushton's Official site at DIAMONDS SIGN GRAY reports :

DIAMONDS SIGN GRAY

Stuart Gray has joined Diamonds on a free transfer after his contract with Second Division Reading was cancelled by mutual consent.

He put pen to paper at Nene Park on Friday afternoon, and the initial deal will see the 27-year-old former Scottish under-21 international at the club until the end of the season when both parties will review the situation.

Stuart, whose father Eddie is assistant to David O’Leary at Leeds United, explained how the chance of a move to Nene Park came about.

"I first heard about a month ago through Brian McDermott who is friendly with the manager here, and since that time I’ve been dying to come here and speak to Rushden. "Unfortunately, I’ve had an injury, but that’s now been sorted out. I came up to speak to the manager on Monday and obviously I was immediately impressed with the set-up here.

My intention is to do well and earn myself a longer contract."

And Stuart has no qualms about dropping out of the Nationwide League.

"Not at all. My main objective is to be playing and unfortunately, for one reason or another, I wasn’t doing that at Reading, so coming here gives me the chance to play. I start training on Saturday and I’m looking forward to that. The manager has said there’s a reserve game on Monday which I’ll probably take part in."

Manager Brian Talbot added: "Stuart’s a quality player who’s got a good left foot. We haven’t got any cover down that side. Underwood is injured and we’ve got Setchell and Burgess playing. We’re going into the last six weeks of the season and we need to cover all options. So he’ll be a valuable addition to the squad. He’s looking forward to coming here and enjoying his initial six weeks with us. Obviously his dad’s been here with Leeds, so he’s heard about us and I think he’s enjoyed listening to what I’ve got to say about the prospects of the club. It’s a club which has ambition and wants to progress. He’s very impressed with our facilities and i think he wants another challenge. He can do a job for me, the team and himself."

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