Gary Mulligan
| Gary Mulligan | ||
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Gary Thomas Mulligan | |
| birthday | April 23, 1985 | |
| place of birth | Dublin , Ireland | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2000-2004 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2004-2005 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 1 ( 0) |
| 2004 | → Rushden & Diamonds (loan) | 13 ( 3) |
| 2005-2006 | Sheffield United | 0 ( 0) |
| 2005 | → Port Vale (loan) | 10 ( 1) |
| 2005 | → Gillingham FC (loan) | 13 ( 1) |
| 2006-2009 | Gillingham FC | 94 (14) |
| 2009-2010 | Northampton Town | 9 ( 0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Ireland U-21 | ||
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1 Only league games are given. Status: December 12, 2009 |
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Gary Thomas Mulligan (born April 23, 1985 in Dublin ) is an Irish football player . The striker was trained in the youth department of Wolverhampton Wanderers and was most recently under contract with Northampton Town until the end of the 2009/10 season .
Athletic career
The Wolverhampton Wanderers' "home grown" could not prevail in the professional team, came to the then second division on August 21, 2004 against Burnley FC (1: 1) for his only eight-minute short stint and was in October 2004 for three months the fourth rate Rushden & Diamonds loaned out. There he made his debut after three days against Chester City (0: 1) as a substitute and shortly afterwards met in his second game against Wycombe Wanderers (1: 1) into the opposing net. He scored a total of three goals in thirteen championship games before returning to Wolverhampton. There he came to no further professional use and after eight games in the reserve eleven and injury problems he was released at the end of the 2004/05 season for a club change.
The next stop of the Dubliner was Sheffield United from July 2005 . With the "Blades", however, he found just as little his sporting luck and after only two games in the league cup and a three-month loan period at third division Port Vale , he went directly to the rivals FC Gillingham from January 2006 on loan . After a month of injury, Mulligan worked there continuously in the first team and brought it to the end of the season on 13 league encounters.
Despite his weakness, which up to now had been the relatively low number of goals scored, Ronnie Jepson, the coach of the "Gills", was particularly impressed by the striker's willingness to work and he decided in May 2006 to sign the Irishman permanently. In the season 2006/07 Mulligan completed 42 competitive games and received within the club behind Andrew Crofts and Mark Bentley the award for the third best footballer of the year. However, the tide turned under Jepson's successor, Mark Stimson ; Mulligan lost his place and missed the 15 to 20 goals he was aiming for this season with five goals - to make matters worse, his club was relegated to fourth-rate Football League Two at the end of the 2007/08 season. Despite the consideration of wanting to leave the club, the parties agreed in June 2008 on a new one-year contract. After a promising start to the 2008/09 season with a goal in the last minute against AFC Bournemouth to make it 1-1, the round was very disappointing for the Irishman despite promotion to Football League One and after only two goals in 31 Games ended his engagement with Gillingham FC in the summer of 2009.
In July 2009 Mulligan signed a new one-year contract with the fourth division club Northampton Town ; there was no extension of the engagement beyond that.
Web links
- Gary Mulligan in the database of weltfussball.de
- Gary Mulligan in the soccerbase.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Rushden snap up Mulligan on loan" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Striker Mulligan leaves Molineux" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Blades recruit Nix and Mulligan" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Mulligan gets Vale loan extension" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Gills rocked by Mulligan injury" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Mulligan display delights Jepson" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Mulligan eyeing a move to Gills" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Mulligan sets Gillingham target" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Mulligan considered other offers" (BBC Sport)
- ^ "Mulligan pens new Gillingham deal" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Mulligan not confident of start" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Promoted Gillingham let eight go" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Mulligan makes move to Cobblers" (BBC Sport)
- ↑ "Northampton Town release midfielder Luke Guttridge" (BBC Sport)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mulligan, Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mulligan, Gary Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |