uttoxram75 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Personal information Full name David Francis Langan Date of birth 15 February 1957 (age 55) Place of birth [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin]Dublin, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland]Ireland Playing position [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_(association_football)]Right-back Youth career –1974 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Orchard_F.C.]Cherry Orchard 1974–1975 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_County_F.C.]Derby County Senior career* Years Team Apps†(Gls)† 1975–1980 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby_County_F.C.]Derby County 143 (1) 1980–1984 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_City_F.C.]Birmingham City 92 (3) 1984–1987 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_United_F.C.]Oxford United 114 (2) 1987 → [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_City_F.C.]Leicester City (loan) 5 (2) 1987 → [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.F.C._Bournemouth]A.F.C. Bournemouth (loan) 21 (7) 1987–1988 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.F.C._Bournemouth]A.F.C. Bournemouth 23 (5) 1988–1989 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_United_F.C.]Peterborough United 19 (0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 someone's telling porkies............good research from the Irish Post as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Well, you and wiki are wrong, what are the chances? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Patrick Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Do you really think Davy Langan would make this sort of thing up ? Believe me he was a youth team player whilst Brian Clough was still Manager. Take it from somebody sadly old enough to remember. Frankly you are doing a fine Derby player a great dis-service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 He was probably in the development squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Do you really think Davy Langan would make this sort of thing up ? Believe me he was a youth team player whilst Brian Clough was still Manager. Take it from somebody sadly old enough to remember. Frankly you are doing a fine Derby player a great dis-service Dave Langan was born in 1957. Came to Derby in 1974. Made his debut in 1977? Brian Clough left Derby in 1973. If any of the above facts are wrong then I'll apologise profusely. Nowt against Langan, top player, gave his all for the Rams at a bad time. On his day one of the best right backs in the league. But he weren't here when Clough was. Sorry pal, but you're wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Well, I'm getting the eggs ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 No need to fall out about, he's Langan now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkleyram Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Gerald Mortimer's complete record of every Rams player will probably be as good a source of information as any. David Langan was born in February 1957. He joined Derby in February 1977 and made his debut under Colin Murphy's managership at right back against the dirties (we lost 1-0). He had previously been a midfield player in the central league for the rams. He was sold to Birmingham for £350k in 1980, having fallen out with Colin Addison, which is where his knee problems began. He went to Oxford in 1984 and won his international place back and won a milk cup winners medal for Oxford in 1986. from 1976 to 1979 he made 155 appearances for us. He was ever present in season 1977/78. My own memory of him is as one of the best right backs we have ever had. John Brayford comes the nearest in modern times - pacy, quietly effective, good team player, good tackler, good going forward - both of them had/have all of those qualities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Central league player for the rams? Well, that maybe that then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkleyram Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Apologies - a later edition makes clear that he was an apprentice with the Rams before his debut against Leeds in 1977 and turned professional in June 1976 so i was wrong about his joining date in the above post. As he would have been 19 at that point it is possible that at age 16 (ie in 1973 when Brian Clough was still manager) that he might have been training at the club as a very junior apprentice. I cannot imagine that their paths crossed very often though but no doubt BC made a significant impression on everyone. To remind everyone, including me, Colin Murphy succeeded Dave Mackay as manager in 1976 and lasted about a year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I can only find references to Langan's joining Derby as 1974. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I can only find references to Langan's joining Derby as 1974. Do you need the eggs yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Do you need the eggs yet? You can put them back in the fridge, not required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Fried or scrambled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uttoxram75 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I shell be proved right.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tommy Patrick Posted June 6, 2012 Author Share Posted June 6, 2012 What a load of bollux. Dave Langan served his apprenticeship under Brian Clough at Derby County after signing from Cherry Orchard in 1974. “We used to play six-a-side matches. ‘Keep the ball’ that’s what Clough called it,” he says. “If you gave it away, he’d come over with a brush and tell you to go sweep the stands or go down and sweep out his office. “He used to call me the Irishman … he was very good to me. My mother loved him because he used to send her a bunch of flowers at Christmas time. He was strict though; if he gave you a rollicking you know you were getting one. Then, we’d lose a match, you’d be thinking we were in for it and he’d come along and praise you for doing one good thing on the pitch. He never played under Clough. He signed for Derby in 1974. Clough left in 1973 Here John Wilkes ( Cherry Orchard Manager ) talks of Davy's impact in 1972/73 for Cherry Orchard FC. Davy had a 2 week trial at Derby in Easter 1973 and was then signed as an apprentice. Brian Clough resigned in October 1973 [size=3][url=http://cherryorchardfc.ie/Orchard%20Souvenir%20FINAL_WEB.pdf]http://cherryorchard...r FINAL_WEB.pdf John Wilkes on Davy Langan - Cherry Orchard Manager In common with managers at all levels of football I have often been asked to nominate the best player to have played for me. It is a question I always avoid answering, for various reasons, but, if pressed, I will, with confi dence, name Davy Langan as the player who has had the most out - standing season with Cherry orchard. Dave had been playing with Bath Rangers in the then section of the DDSL when he was capped by Ireland against West Germany (1-1) in 1972. Obviously he was destined to play at the top level in schoolboy football, a point his then manager Lar O’Byrne, an ex-Shamrock Rovers player himself, agreed when Gerry Flynn and I spoke to him about Dave’s future. Dave was torn between his loy alty to Bath Rangers and his need to move up in standards and although opting to join Cherry Orchard found it difficult to begin with. Little did he know what lay ahead for the season 72/73. Cherry Orchard U16 team did the treble, were unbeaten and considered by many people at the time to be one of the best ever teams at this level. Dave Langan was the outstanding player in a team full of quality performers, scoring 30 goals from midfield and inspiring all around him. His progress was so rapid that a two week trial at Derby County at Easter was inevitable. The irony was that at the end of the first week Tony Maher, his team-mate, also over on trial, was much preferred by the coaches, Dave as ever being a slow starter. At the end of the second week things changed completely. Tony was considered too small to sign and Dave, having finally produced better form, was asked to sign as an apprentice, as it was then. Several years later, Cherry Orchard staged a re-union game in Ballyfermot. Dave promised to attend and went to great trouble to get back to Dublin from Switzerland where he was playing for Ireland. He was to be collected’ for the evening game but due to a mix-up made his own way to Ballyfermot. When he was asked how he had travelled he said he had come on the 78A bus. “It was good enough for me in the past it’s good enough for me now,” he said. Typical Dave, as modest as they come and never in any dan ger of losing the affection of all at Cherry Orchard, being the first player from our club to play for Ireland meant that through the years he has been a role model for so many of our young players and was never found wanting in this area. Football moves on quickly in many ways and new heroes are always found but Dave Langan will be remembered with the high est esteem by all who had the pleasure of knowing him, both as a player and person.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Where's that egg on face picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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