SIt is clear that UBSBERS to the theory that the FA Cup has lost its charm never met with the atmosphere of Ironside. It has now passed more than three years since the Doncaster striker has faced one of his best days when he scored the winning goal for his former team Cambridge United in an annoyed from the third round in Newcastle.
“What a day, what a really special day,” says Eronside as much as he looks at Crystal Palace to South Yorkshire to tie the fourth round on Monday night. “The celebrations after that something I will remember for life, but although all my memories are happy, the game itself is blurry. The only thing I can remember is to check a VAR to infiltrate after I registered. It was only about three minutes but he felt for a long time.”
Eronside’s loose ball objections failed to defend Eddie Hao in removing the end of the lack of relief that did not ask Yasser Romayan, the non -falling Newcastle Chair, to a march, and a tight atom, in the home dressing room surrounded by four personal guards in the last yellow, but The attacking child champion caught the attention of the attacking hero.
“I grew up in the idol of Alan Shearer,” said Eronside. “Before the third round was withdrawn that year, I was telling everyone that we would get Newcastle in St. James Park and all of that. Then Alan Shearer ran me two days after the game and we talked about zooming. It was free about myself and the team. It was a really nice touch.” .
If Ironside helps in the McCann’s League Two Presergy Belace wounds, he can expect a message from an old friend in Manchester, who had the moment of the FA Cup Friday night. “And Harry Maguire started at the Academy in Sheffield United and we are still in touch,” says 31 -year -old. “It is always good to see Harry, what a profession has it, he has achieved very amazing things.”
When Ironside scored the consolation goal in Sheffield United in the 2011 Youth Cup final against Manchester United, the sky looked the maximum Oscar in the first year. However, in the end Maguire joined the Old Trafford and advanced to the midfield play in England, the striker who used to test him in training descends into a non -league football.
“Sometimes football revolves around being in the right place at the right time, with the right manager at the right moment, and this is what it is,” said Eronside. “The decline in the non -league was difficult, but it was with the aim of playing regularly and returning to the Football League. But I loved him. I will not change anything.”
After making 16 games in the first team in Sheffield United Ironside, it signed with Alfriton in 2015, he moved to Nuneoton, Kidrinmster and York before joining McLelesfield, then in the second league, in 2019. Promotion to the first league, and reached Donkster in June 2023. Since then he scored 30 goals in 94 games.
“I was lucky enough to return to the Football League, but I am grateful for the experiences that I have gone outside,” he says. “It has definitely made me playing my life now. You appreciate all the things that are done for players in the league clubs these days.”
Ultimately, Ironside hopes to remain in the professional field as a coach or manager, but with his eight -month -old son is now part of his family, he explores the BS plan and saves a great vacuum not only to collect his training badges but studies the part -time to obtain a university degree in Sports business management. “I am trying to create more options for the future,” he says. “It is good to do different things but football is always the main focus.”
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It was not more than Monday night, when Eronside and his coach, former veteran at Sheffield United Billy Sharp, aimed at asking England Mark Goy and his team defenders who are struggling to answer.
The 39-year-old-is often a very effective alternative at the present time-and they are the Ironside on the trip between their homes in Sheffield and Dunkaster. “We are talking a lot,” the latter says. “But more than life in general of football.”
This may change during Monday morning by car via M18 to the 15,000 ecosystem. “Palace has all the big players so that they can share the stadium with people like Marc GuéHi is exciting. Ironside says:” It is definitely something we look forward to. “But we have a lot of experience throughout our team, the FA Cup so anything can happen .
The palace will certainly be unknown to reduce the team ranging high in the fourth layer. After each team, the talented MCCANN LONES team includes the Manchester United Ethan Ennis and West Ham Patrick Kelly midfielder. Then there is Teddy Sharman Loui, on loan from Chelsea and a former goalkeeper in England under the twentieth of the last century, and defender Joseph Olu, who came through the Arsenal youth regime.
“I think this tie has really caught the imagination of people in Donkster,” says Eronside. It is cliché, but this is the beauty of the FA Cup. When you are a second league club drawing a team in the Premier League, it swears the city. It will be a great occasion with a crowd of abundance, and if Pelly Sharp can take our functions, our team has a chance. “