Alan Kelly, Sr.
Alan Kelly (5 July 1936 – 20 May 2009) was an Irish international football goalkeeper who played for Bray Wanderers and Drumcondra in his home country, and most notably for Preston North End in England. He was capped 47 times for the Republic of Ireland, and was the father of Gary Kelly and Alan Kelly, Jr., who also became professional football goalkeepers.
Playing career
Kelly started his career at Bray Wanderers. In 1956, he joined Drumcondra, with whom he had won a FAI Cup winners medal in 1957 and a League Championship in 1958. In 1960 he moved to Preston North End.
Kelly won the first of his 47 Republic of Ireland caps against West Germany in a 1956 friendly, and won his second cap the following year in a World Cup qualifier against England.
He made his Preston debut on 28 January 1961, in an FA Cup tie against Swansea Town and became first choice goalkeeper the following season. In total, he made a club record 513 appearances over a 14-year period – including the 1964 FA Cup Final defeat by West Ham United. In league competition, he played 447 times for Preston, keeping 126 clean sheets, which is a club record.
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Ooberman
Ooberman are a band with strong indie, folk and progressive influences first formed in 1997. They split up in 2003, shortly after the release of their second album Hey Petrunko, but announced their reformation in April 2006 and began releasing music again soon thereafter.
History
Early years
Ooberman founders Dan Popplewell and Andy Flett met over a piano at their school in Bradford, 1988. The first band they set up was The Forestry Commission, with Flett's younger brother, Steve on bass guitar. The band's life soon ended when Popplewell moved to Liverpool, but the three friends kept in touch.
Steve Flett moved to Liverpool in 1992, and Andy Flett later joined him in 1996/7, after commuting back and forth from Birmingham where he was studying. Ooberman was then born, complete with Alan Kelly (Drums) and last member Sophia Churney (keyboards and vocals). The first Ooberman gig was in June 1997, and their eccentric live shows and quirky demos won them the 1997 BT Merseyside Arts Award for Best Newcomers.
Alan Kelly (referee)
Alan Kelly (born 9 April 1975) is a FIFA Referee from the Republic of Ireland. He officiates primarily in the League of Ireland and has been on the FIFA list since 2002. He has been regarded as Ireland’s top referee for the last number of years. In 2013, he joined the MLS as a referee.
Career
Kelly took up refereeing in 1994 and joined the Cork Branch of the Irish Soccer Referees Society (ISRS). He refereed in local leagues including the Munster Senior League.
He joined the League of Ireland Referees Panel in 1999 while participating in the first FAI Referee’s School of Excellence. Since then he has refereed at over 350 matches in the top flight of Irish football.
In 2000 he was selected to referee the League of Ireland Cup Final between Derry City and Limerick City the first of 4 Senior Domestic Cup Finals he has been appointed to, to date.
He refereed his first FAI Cup Final in 2003 when Longford Town beat St Patricks Athletic in Lansdowne Road and became one of only a few Irish referees to referee multiple FAI Cup Finals when he took charge of the game between Sporting Fingal and Sligo Rovers in 2009 at Tallaght Stadium.
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