Chris Morris

irishmufc wrote: http://m.independent.ie/sport/soccer/euro-2016/irelands-forgotten-man-how-the-sixth-italia-90-penalty-taker-ended-up-running-a-cornish-pasty-business-34745340.html Good article on Chris Morris I just came across. You never hear too much about this lad who played in the best Ireland teams there have ever been. What was he like as a player? Gary Neville solid but unspectacular or a bit better?

Didn't play a qualifier for Euro 88 yet managed to become first choice ahead of John Anderson and Davy Langan who didn't end up making the squad after playing most of the qualifiers.

Morris was decent throughout Euro 88 and in the qualifiers for Italia 90. People (including myself) used to moan a bit about his crosses but I remember sitting a boozer one night when the barman put on the highlights video for the qualifiers and he put some cracking balls in to be fair! Lost form during the euro 92 campaign and didn't feature in the WC 94 qualifiers after Terry Phelan came in. Morris was decent enough, Phelan was better though.

I remember He was in the studio with Mick mccarthy and Maurice setters when Scotland beat Bulgaria on RTE live . Michael Lester was the host and setters looked like a Spanish porn star.
The day before he made his debut v Tunisia when David Kelly scored a hat trick in Dalymount park . I was at it . Great memories



Edited by depechemode - 23 Dec 2016 at 9:53am

Chris Morris score draw, Don Givens, Dennis Law, Eusebio, Junior, Ronnie Whelan Senior

There was a thing on some video, nearly sure it was the 'Italia 90' one, where he pointed to the Irish passport proudly. I have a feeling that is where I took an extra shine to him.(I was 6)

gspain wrote: Drumcondra 69er wrote: irishmufc wrote: http://m.independent.ie/sport/soccer/euro-2016/irelands-forgotten-man-how-the-sixth-italia-90-penalty-taker-ended-up-running-a-cornish-pasty-business-34745340.html Good article on Chris Morris I just came across. You never hear too much about this lad who played in the best Ireland teams there have ever been. What was he like as a player? Gary Neville solid but unspectacular or a bit better? Didn't play a qualifier for Euro 88 yet managed to become first choice ahead of John Anderson and Davy Langan who didn't end up making the squad after playing most of the qualifiers. Morris was decent throughout Euro 88 and in the qualifiers for Italia 90. People (including myself) used to moan a bit about his crosses but I remember sitting a boozer one night when the barman put on the highlights video for the qualifiers and he put some cracking balls in to be fair! Lost form during the euro 92 campaign and didn't feature in the WC 94 qualifiers after Terry Phelan came in. Morris was decent enough, Phelan was better though. Morris was a right back and Phelan played on the left. Denis Irwin took his place.  Chris was decent but Irwin was a much better player. John Andersen was in the squad in 88 (number 19).  Davy Langan was injured I think but unfortunately virtually finished at that stage.    A fit Langan would have surely started.  Morris was better than Andersen imo.

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irishmufc wrote: Irwin was world class imo.