Green shoots of recovery emerge

DAVID MEYLER, Seamus Coleman and Greg Cunningham were some of the Irish youngsters to make a Premier League breakthrough in recent years but who’s in contention for this campaign?

Well, there were high hopes that Arsenal playmaker Conor Henderson would build on last season’s first-team debut in the FA Cup only for his anterior ligament to snap during a pre-season outing against Cologne, which rules him out for the season.

Another Conor on the books of a London superpower, Conor Clifford, will likely move from Stamford Bridge on loan though that could be designed to prepare him for the second part of the season back with the Blues.