Steven Reid off the mark for West Brom already.
A few of the other Irish lads on target in the EPL today too…Coleman, Walters and Pennant.
Ferguson:
McGeadyesque.
What’s his status do you know Thrawneen? Is he officially “declared” for the 26?
He played a friendly international for the occupied 6 in 2009 but I’ve read on another forum that he wants to play for us now. Could be a load of bollocks, of course. He’s from Derry and he was a good gaelic footballer they say. Don’t know anything else beyond that.
Shane Long has two more for Reading today - one a penalty. Why didn’t he take the penalty the other night by the way?
Walters got a good goal for Stoke too.
Robbie Keane has an early goal to give West Ham a lead against Villa.
Robbie’s got a decent record scoring against the Villa.
What a fucking legend that man is.
Two goals for Keith Treacy today. Preston were marooned at the bottom of the championship a while back but the much maligned Phil Brown is plotting a potential great escape.
Noel Hunt scored for Reading and they’re making a real go at getting into the top two.
Aaron Doran, on loan from Blackburn, and Stephen Elliot scored the goals in Caley Thistle’s 1-1 draw with Hearts.
The time of year for these sort of things to be popping up, a review of the year for the Irish in Britain
Good to see Duffer get his new season (!) off to a flyer with the opening goal of Fulham’s 3-0 win against NSI Runavik
Excellent. 
Any of you have relatives that took off years ago and havent been heard frim in a while?
@chewylouie will you please make a will and leave your vast music collection to TFK?
HUNDREDS of Irish names are on the British Treasury’s list of unclaimed estates.
Millions of pounds could therefore be lying in wait for the heirs of Irish people who died intestate in Britain.
One of the largest cases was that of an Irish women who left an estate in Belgravia, London, valued at almost €2m.
Estates of those who die with no obvious next-of-kin automatically default to the Government. Each year approximately 2,000 cases are referred to the Treasury Solicitor’s Department.
Last year the British Government collected £33m in unclaimed estates.
Fraser & Fraser, a London firm specialising in probate research, has handled over £100m of inheritance in the past 10 years.
They estimate that Irish cases account for about 10 per cent of their caseload.
One case was the story of Michael Moran, who died in London aged 84 with an estate of £300,000. Born in Westport, Co. Mayo in 1922, Mr Moran died intestate in 2007 in Windsor.
Using parish records Mr Moran’s heirs were found and his estate was distributed.
Another of Fraser & Fraser’s three teams repatriated some €5.1million to beneficiaries in Ireland in a single 18- month period up to 2011.
At present Fraser & Fraser, who have featured on the BBC TV series Heir Hunters, have details of an unclaimed case valued at £45,000 under the name Michael Delaney, a 70-year-old bachelor who died in Luton, Bedfordshire in 2000.
The Bona Vacantia list, within the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, holds more than 10,500 unclaimed estates.
Among them are hundreds of Irish-born men and women who died intestate between 1997 and 2012.
Many Irish surnames such as Brennan, Connolly, Fitzgerald, Murphy, Kelly, O’Brien, O’Neill and O’Connor feature on the Treasury’s lists of unclaimed estates from across Britain, including London, West Yorkshire, Kent, Sussex, Essex and Staffordshire.
The list is updated weekly — however no values are included to avoid fraudulent claims. The Treasury only deals with solvent estates of £500 or more.
Many of these estates are worth little but others include bank savings, life insurance policies and real estate valued at tens of thousands of pounds.
Heir hunting in Ireland is notoriously difficult due to public records being destroyed in the early 1900s or Irish people refusing to register their marriages and births while the country was under British rule.
Peter Birchwood, senior partner of Celtic Research, based in Wales, has also been in the business of locating missing heirs for 40 years.
He says they deal with two to three Irish cases a week. He visits Ireland regularly and also makes use of a researcher based in Dublin. He told the Irish Post that they have no way of knowing the value of the estate they are dealing with. However, a recent case involved a man called Victor Anthony Jones, who died at Runcorn, Cheshire with an estate worth £170,000.
“Mr Jones’ mother was from Co. Cork,” Mr Birchwood said. “Hers was a large family, descended from John Holland, headmaster of the Ballinaspittle National School. It took us a long time to find the Holland family. The Jones side was a lot easier, but after research in Ireland, Scotland, Canada, the US and South America we managed to find them all.”
He added: “A large percentage died unmarried, joined religious orders or just did not have children. This estate was worth about £170,000 and has now been distributed to all of the heirs.”
Bona Vacantia make enquiries for entitled kin on their website as well as in national and local press advertisements.
Respondents are required to provide evidence of their blood relationship in the form of birth, marriage and death certificates, along with evidence of their identity.
Two thirds of people in Britain have no will and every year over 12,000 people die without leaving any entitled kin next-of-kin.
Anthony Pilkington looks set to leave Norwich and join Stoke this summer
That is just an all round terrible move for Pilkington.
I see LOI reject Paddy Madden is the hottest property in Tan football these days
Alex Pearce is being linked with a move to Liverpool, he is out of contract in the summer
That’s gas.
Deal has been agreed in principle if the metro is to be believed