Report Card - Weekend of 4th December 2015

4th December 2015
FA Cup
Salford City 1-1 Hartlepool United
Former Ireland international defender Stephen O'Halloran scored his first goal for Salford City

5th December 2015
Premier League
Stoke City 2-0 Manchester City
Former Manchester City player Glenn Whelan captained his current side Stoke City to victory over his former side in his 200th league start for the Potters

Watford 2-0 Norwich City
Robbie Brady was shown his first yellow card in almost a year. The winger's last booking came on 26th December 2014

West Bromwich Albion 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur
James McClean scored his first goal for West Brom since signing for them in the summer. McClean's hadn't scored since netting against Blackpool for Wigan on February 28th

Championship
Bolton Wanderers 2-3 Cardiff City
Anthony Pilkington goal was his first in almost two months, having not found the back of the net since September 12th

Brentford 2-0 Milton Keynes Dons
Alan Judge's scored his seventh goal of the season, and his first in just over a month

Brighton and Hove Albion 3-2 Charlton Athletic
Stephen Henderson had gone more than a year since his last booking, which came on 18 October 2014

Travel plans

The draw for the group stages of UEFA Euro 2016 is a week away, but the fixture list has been known for some time, having been announced in April 2014 - http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/finals/news/newsid=2095949.html - long before any team had qualified! Following qualification by the Boys In Green, Irish fans have already been researching available flights and accommodation in France.
We've always been interested in new and different way to visualise data, so we've mashed up the current airport and flight data from OpenFlights - http://openflights.org/ - with the Google Maps API - https://developers.google.com/maps/ - to create a journey planner for the group stages: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/Flights

At the moment, only French airports are included - there are Belgian, Italian and Spanish airports close to stadiums in the tournament - with more to be added. Only internal flights and driving directions are included as travel options between fixtures, public transport needs to be added. If possible, we will add links to the relevant airlines.

What is your preferred fixture combination? 

* Please note that Ireland cannot be drawn for any of the top seed fixture combinations (A1, B1, C1, etc) but they are included for completion

November 2015 Stats

Irish Abroad players appearance statistics for November 2015: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/MonthlyStats?month=11

Wins

Derby County's Irish defensive duo Richard Keogh and Cyrus Christie, along with Ipswich Town's Daryl Murphy all started three wins in November 2015

Draws

Shane Duffy started three games for Blackburn Rovers that ended all square after 90 minutes

Losses

Dundee United's defender Sean Dillon lost all four matches he started in November

Starts/Completed Games

Alan McCormack, Darren Potter, Stephen Gleeson, Richard Keogh, Sean Dillon, Ciaran Clark, Shane Duffy, Seamus Coleman, Keiren Westwood, and Stephen Henderson started all four games in November and completed 90 minutes in each one

Substitutions/Introductions

Harry Arter and Eoin Doyle started all four games in November, and both were substituted in each game. Darron Gibson came off the bench twice for Everton, the same as Southend's on loan defender Glen Rea, no other player came off the bench more than once

Stayed on bench

Alex Pearce and Jack Bonham both remained on the bench in all four games in November for their respective clubs

Goals

Daryl Murphy scored six goals in November, more than the rest of the Irish strikers who played in November combined. Ipswich won two and drew one of the three game when he scored. Aberdeen won both games where Jonathan Hayes and Adam Rooney scored

Discipline

Adam White and Cyrus Christie were both booked twice, no other player was booked more than once. No striker was booked in November