The best Irish player to play for each of this season’s 20 Premier League clubs

Roy Keane scores on the double to lead the way and join legends like John Giles, Mark Lawrenson, Shay Given, Damien Duff, Ronnie Whelan and Séamus Coleman in this list of sporting immortals

Some of the greatest Irish players have decorated the top flight of Englsih football over the years

The globalisation of the game, multi-national investment and the FAI’s failure to create a fit-for-purpose environment to develop elite players have irrefutably diluted Ireland’s impact on English football over the past two decades.

In the early 2000s, as many as 36 players from the Republic of Ireland featured in the world’s most competitive league. That figure stood at just 16 last season.

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