IN 2014 Ben Mohamed was studying at Trinity College Dublin, whose College Park venue is the most central venue in Dublin and very, very old. He was playing for SSE Airtricity League club UCD AFC, after recovering from a career threatening injury inflicted he had returned to the team in later 2014.  But he also played for Trinity College and UCD did not like that.  Ben Mohamed moved to Longford Town for the 2015 season but he still attended his beloved Trinity College. Continuing to play for their Universities League side. University 1:0 FC.

Ben Mohamed since moved to FC Bohemian FC and is now with Esperance of Tunis, Tunisia.  He again has suffered a long-term injury which gives him more time for study.

David McMillan loves his University so much he immigrated so he could closer to the books.  David studied at University College Dublin in Ireland and played for the Leinster Senior League side, Universities side and their Airtricity League side.  He then took advantage of an Erasmus* exchange scheme and immigrated to the University of Brisbane, Australia where he continued his chosen field of Architecture and football playing for Olympic Brisbane.  McMillan returned to Dublin and enrolled in an Masters Degree at UCD where he scored lots of goals and exam points at Belfield. In 2017 David plays for St Johnstone, Perth (Scotland not Australia).

Tony Mc spent 13 years playing for University College Dublin AFC so that he could surround himself in an academic environment.  After finally getting the hint that he was an old man at 31 he retired from playing Football but didn't move far.  Using both football and academic accomplishments he got a job with RTÉ in Montrose across the road.  It's the next-door-neighbour house from Belfield House.

*named after a Dutch Philosopher a pre-cursor to Neeskens.

Passed with Distinction no doubt.

Brilliant! 

While I am in here I feel Steve Palmer is worth a mention, I am sure the Watford and QPR contingents on here are well aware of him. He is regularly listed as the only professional player to have studied at Cambridge, I don't think any have been to Oxford either, where he also played first-class cricket for the University side.

I believe his degree was in computer software.

His middle names are Private and Limited.

David Wetherall was a bright fella also from back in the 90s. 

The current breed certainly would not appear to blend in at a MENSA convention. 

During a footballing career including Limerick FC, Galway Utd, Waterford Utd and Limerick 37 Derek was studying at University Limerick and placement to Blackburn Rovers Fc where he continued his Applied Science Bachelors at University of Cumbria.  He hung on in England, stayed with Blackburn before moving as Head of Sports Science to Preston North End where he completed his BA from Univ of Cumbria.

Every the man for the walls of academia he worked as Strength & Conditioning consultant at Myerscough University near Preston while completing a Master in  Sports & Exercise at Univ of Central Lancashire in Preston.

He returned to Limerick FC, the article suggests a contact got him interested in the Jordan U23 coaching job. He may be at a loss end atm but his CV, like his organised defences won't show any gaps.

This is in my Top 10 favourite posts on the internet.

Clown College ? Pffft you can't eat that 

Around 30,000 people apply for Harvard every year, all would have the best of the best grades.

Paddy gets offered a place with a few B’s.

Yeah but for a footballer that is the equivalent of being Einstein discovering gravitational waves

Football scholarship.

 

My niece was offered a scholarship with Harvard too.

 

She turned them down and went to Villanova instead on a quarter of a million dollar scholarship.

 

 

 

Believe it or not.