Fortunately Kevin was also a long jumper so he would have known how to do that bit. He also played Gaelic football, golf and tennis.
On September 30, 1946 both Kevin and his brother played for Ireland against England.
After football he became an official with the International Olympic Committee, only retiring in 1994 after 18 years service becoming an honorary lifetime member of IOC.
But his work with the IOC continued for many years, as he was a member of the IOC Drugs Panel from 1977 to 1999 and was a member of the Medical Commissioin from 1980 to 1994.
Now there is one more story to be told – but I have left that at home today, so I am going to have to add it later, unless one of my colleagues would like to jump in with it. It involves the good doctor and a referee.
The books…
- Woolwich Arsenal: The club that changed football – Arsenal’s early years
- Making the Arsenal – how the modern Arsenal was born in 1910
- The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal – crowd behaviour at the early matches
The sites…
- Untold Arsenal
- Referee Decisions – just what are the refs up to this season?
- The weight loss programme: The only guaranteed wayto stay fit
- Looking for a terraced house in Northamptonshire?
The main series
- Islington 100: celebrating 100 years of Arsenal in Islington
- Arsenal’s Anniversaries
- The Managers index with two managers that no one else includes!
Kevin O’Flanagan seems to have been an absolutely amazing sportsman. His involvement with Arsenal in the 1940s must surely have opened-up the idea for young Irish football players that they should consider our Club as a good place to go – one of the Club’s most distinguished Players, Liam Brady followed in his footsteps many years later, and the Player with the highest number of Club Appearances is also Irish – Dave O’Leary!
did kevin o’flanagan play at outside right when with arsenal f.c. i remember when in the fifties i bought the charley buchan football magazine each month in an edition of it there was a report of arsenal having made a visit to moscow to play a match and on the team a peter goring was pictured in the dressing room stripping for the match. i remember it was noted the floor in the dressing was heated. i wonder would there be any record of that event, i am aware that clubs such as moscow dynamo and spartak moscow (played arsenal home and away about that time). moscow dynamo visited chelsea and a record crowd was recorded. tyger cromych was the name of the dynamo keeper. i use a google website.
hamilton geraghty
I claim to be one of the oldest Arsenal supporters .
I remember Dr O Flanagan playing for Arsenal, he was a very gifted footballer who played on the right wing.
I remember the first game I saw was Arsenal v Leicester around 1946, they won 3-1.
Can anyone remember further back.
My father and I went to Highbury for many many years
I doubt very much if anyone can beat you Gerald.
name Luigi Carretta age 81 Home Besancon fr islington school boy capitan middlelsex capt England school boys trial
with Johnny Haynes Tosh Chamberlaine i signd with them at Fulham my Father Arsenal fan i watched arsenal when they played at the Spurs ground during the War today i go to all the europeing games i have lived in france past 60 years regards Luigi
Luigi thank you so much for writing in. Do hope you are keeping well, and thank you for sharing those memories