ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to thank everyone who made themselves available for interview during the course of this book being put together and thanks also to the following:

Tom and Kay McRann

Paul Doolan

The Trustees of the SRFC Heritage Trust

The photographs contained in the book were drawn from my personal collection and as well as some of my own others originated from the following sources: Sportsfile, Martin Byrne, George Kelly, Bobby Best and Derek Kavanagh. If a photograph has been used and not credited to the source this is because it has not been possible to identify the origination of every single photograph but every effort was made otherwise. Sportsfile photographs have been reproduced with the permission of Ray McManus.

Thanks also to the sports writers from the period 1983-1987, some of whom have since passed away.

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The Four-in-a-Row Story

BY ROBERT GOGGINS

This book is dedicated in memory of two great stalwarts of Shamrock Rovers, both of whom passed away in 2009 - Jack Wilson and Kitty Mellon

“I think the best team I have ever seen is the Four-in-a-Row team. They can talk about Paddy Coad’s team and Sean Thomas’s team, yes they were great teams, but I think overall the Four-in-a-Row went on for so many years with very little personnel changes and if it was put to me to say which I thought was the best ever team then I would say it was McLaughlin’s team, as I call them”

– The late Jack Wilson R.I.P.