Irish in Britain: How they fared this weekend

Robbie Keane may have scored his 11th goal of the season, in just 21 appearances, on Saturday afternoon, but it counted for nothing in the end in a 2-1 defeat away to Bradford City.

The goal moves Keane clear of Niall Quinn as the leading Irish scorer in Britain but with Wolves now in 12th place and 19 points behind leaders Sunderland, Quinn's prospects of playing Premiership football next season look just that little bit more bright. Unless, of course, Keane joins one of the innumerable Premiership clubs he has been linked with. Cardiff's Kevin Nugent, a former Irish youth international, is now sixth on that list (behind Keane, Quinn, Stoke's Graham Kavanagh, Alan McLoughlin of Portsmouth and Motherwell's Owen Coyle) after scoring his fifth and sixth goals of the season in Saturday's 4-2 win at home to Mansfield in Division Three. In the same division Irish under-21 Barry Conlon scored for Southend in their 4-1 win at Hartlepool and Sean McCarthy got Plymouth's second in the 2-0 home win over Carlisle. In the Premiership Lee Carsley got his first goal of the season in the 1-1 draw at Coventry.

On Friday night Brentford's Tony Folan gave himself a decent chance of winning the goal of the season award when he chipped Cambridge United's goalkeeper from 45 yards, to score the game's only goal. It was the 20-year-old's fifth goal for the club since joining them from Crystal Palace in September and moved them to second in division three behind Cardiff.