John Rowan "Johnny" Fullam (22 March 1940 – 10 June 2015) was an Irish association footballer.

Career

Born in

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, Fullam began his career at Home Farm before signing for

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in 1958. He scored 6 goals in 49 league appearances for Preston. In 1961 he was asked to guest on

Shamrock Rovers Shamrock Rovers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige) is an Irish association football club based in Tallaght, South Dublin. The club's senior team competes in the League of Ireland Premier Division and it is the most su ...

tour of America on the understanding that he would sign for the club. He scored his first goal in a competitive match from the penalty spot against

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in a

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game on 20 August 1961. He suffered a serious knee injury in February 1962 and missed Rovers

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win that season. He made his European debut in the

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against

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and won his first Shield medal in 1962/63. Johnny was a regular member of Rovers' all-conquering side of 1963/64 when the Hoops almost made a clean sweep of the domestic trophies. He was one of five Rovers' players who were on the

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side that beat the English Football League side 2–1 at Dalymount Park on 2 October 1963. Just over a week later he played against

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and the Rovers drew 2–2. Johnny won the first of his six FAI Cup medals with Rovers in 1964 and in the replayed final the following year he scored the winner. He scored against

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in the

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in 1965. The following year he scored again in Europe in the 4–1 win over Spora Luxembourg and had two great games against

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where Rovers were seven minutes from putting the eventual winners of the competition. He was on the mark in Europe again in 1968 against

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but a knee injury he received in March 1969 kept him out of Rovers' record making six-in-a-row FAI Cup Final win. He signed for

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shortly after and won yet another FAI Cup in his first season at Dalymount Park. In 1975, he won the League with Bohs and picked up another FAI Cup in 1976. He made 8 appearances in European competition for Bohs. He signed back for Rovers in the 1976 close season and captained the Milltown club to his eighth FAI Cup win in 1978. He was given a free transfer by

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at the end of the 1978/79 season. Fullam finished his League of Ireland career at

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, signing for them with

Mick Smyth Mick Smyth (born 13 May 1940) was an Irish soccer player who played for Drumcondra, Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians and Athlone Town in the League of Ireland throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and had a short spell in England with Barrow in ...

in August 1979.Profile
''Irish Times'', 2 August 1979. His last League of Ireland game was the final game of the

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season at St Mel's Park when

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won the league. He played well over 400 League of Ireland games. He had played for Rovers for eleven seasons in two spells and he was a worthy recipient of the Shamrock Rovers Hall of Fame award in 1991. He earned 11 caps playing for

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,Johnny Fullam profile
neilbrown.newcastlefans.com; accessed 18 January 2016. 10 while with Rovers. He holds the Rovers record for the most European appearances with 19 scoring the aforementioned 3 goals.

Honours

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: 2 **

– 1964 ** Bohemians – 1975 *

: 8 **

– 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1978 ** Bohemians – 1970, 1976 *

: 1 **

– 1964 *

League of Ireland Cup The League of Ireland Cup ( ga, Corn Sraithe na hÉireann), also referred to in Ireland as the 'League Cup', is an annual knockout competition in men's football in the Republic of Ireland. It is contested by League of Ireland clubs and invited c ...

: 1 **

– 1976/77 * Leinster Senior Cup: 2 **

– 1964, 1968/69 *

Dublin City Cup The Dublin City Cup is a defunct Irish football tournament which was played for by all League of Ireland sides (and not just those from Dublin city as the name suggests). It ran from 1933 and ran uninterrupted until 1973. In the 1975–76 se ...

: 2 **

– 1964, 1966/67 *

Top Four Cup The Top Four Cup was an association football super cup featuring the top four clubs in the League of Ireland. It was first held in 1955–56 and last played for in 1973–74. It was played at the end of the season. Shamrock Rovers were the in ...

: 1 **

1966 *

Blaxnit Cup The Blaxnit Cup, is a defunct club football competition which featured teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland, in a similar format to the later Setanta Cup. It was inaugurated in 1967 as a cross-border competition between c ...

: 1 **

1967–68 *

LFA President's Cup The LFA President's Cup was an association football cup competition featuring League of Ireland clubs affiliated to the Leinster Football Association. It was played for between 1930 and 2002. It was a ''de facto'' national super cup and on t ...

: **

1974/75 *SWAI Personality of the Year: 2 **

– 1967/68 ** Bohemians – 1974/75 * Hall of Fame: 1 **

– 1990/91

References

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