John Fallon: Travers the Irish standout from EFL season

Bournemouth goalkeeper Mark Travers celebrates winning promotion to the Premier League. Photo credit: John Walton/PA Wire.

When the Premier League produces scant joyful Irish storylines, it’s just as well the English Championship is increasingly becoming the country’s football playground.

Slim pickings in the top-flight can make for grim reading. Across last weekend’s full schedule of Premier League matches, only two Irishmen started. Those pair, Séamus Coleman and Nathan Collins, were joined from the bench by Collins’s Burnley teammate Kevin Long.