Following a discussion on the Ipswich board a few days ago I would like you guys to come up with as many players from between 1970 to the present day who have been awarded FULL international caps (while playing for your team). Not u18, u21 etc - Any country. I do not intend to turn this into a discussion type of thread or any kind of competition between our 2 clubs - just for interest, and maybe some surprises along the way as we go down memory lane. If you can give me the name, country and approx year (in that order)
This list is incomplete, but this is the best I can gather on players who've played for their country while at Stoke: Sambegou Bangoura - Guinea - 2006 Gordon Banks -England - 1967-1972 Asmir Begovic - Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2010 George Berry - Wales - 1982-1983 Mark Chamberlain - England - 1982-1984 Clive Clarke - Republic of Ireland - 2004 Danny Collins - Wales - 2010 Terry Conroy - Republic of Ireland - 1970-1976 Rikhardur Dadason - Iceland - 2000-2002 Salif Diao - Senegal - 2007- Abdoulaye Faye - Senegal - 2008-2011 Ricardo Fuller - Jamaica - 2006- Bjarni Gudjonsson - Iceland - 2000-2003 Brynjar Gunnarsson - Iceland - 1999-2003 Carl Hoefkens - Belgium - 2005-2007 Alan Hudson - England - 1975 Kenwyne Jones - Trinidad & Tobago - 2011 Graham Kavanagh - Republic of Ireland - 1998-2001 Liam Lawrence - Republic of Ireland - 2009-2010 Sammy McIlroy - Northern Ireland - 1982 John Mahoney - Wales - 1970-1977 Gerry McMahon - Northern Ireland - 1996-1997 Toddy Orlygsson - Iceland - 1993-1995 Paul Peschisolido - Canada - 1994-1996 Mike Pejic - England - 1974 Tuncay Sanli - Turkey - 2009-2010 Peter Shilton - England - 1974-1977 Sergei Shtaniuk - Belarus - 2001-2003 Mamady Sidibe - Mali - 2005- Larus Sigurdsson - Iceland - 1995-1999 Thomas Sorensen - Denmark - 2008 - Mickey Thomas - Wales - 1982-1984 Stefan Thordarson - Iceland - 2000-2002 Adam Vass - Hungary - 2006-2007 Jani Viander - Finland - 2002-2003 Jon Walters - Republic of Ireland - 2010 Marc Wilson - Republic of Ireland - 2011 Glenn Whelan - Republic of Ireland - 2008- There were a few, namely Kyle Lightbourne (Bermuda), Petur Marteinsson (Iceland), Brendan O'Callaghan (Republic of Ireland), Martin Paterson (Northern Ireland), Demar Phillips (Jamaica) and Hannes Sigurdsson (Iceland) that could have played Internationally while with us but it is not entirely clear that they did.
Nice one and to be honest it's a longer list than I expected to see (no offence meant). A bit like Southampton
Did he? I must admit I cannot remember Gerry playing for them when he was with us. I'll see if I can find out. EDIT - Just checked. Gerry played his last game for Northern Ireland in 2002, a year or so before he came to us.
My apologies Conroy, didn't realise. 4 caps in 1974 and apparently dropped from the England squad "didn't smile enough".
