When Ironside scored Sheffield United’s consolation goal in the 2011 FA Youth Cup final against Manchester United the sky seemed the limit for the first-year academy scholar.
Doncaster’s Joe Ironside: ‘Playing non-league has made me appreciate life now’ A much-travelled former FA Cup hero for Cambridge against Newcastle now has Crystal Palace in his sights.
Never more so than on Monday night, when Ironside and his co-striker, the former Sheffield United veteran Billy Sharp, will aim to ask England’s Marc Guéhi and his fellow Palace defenders questions they struggle to answer.
Should Ironside help Grant McCann’s League Two promotion contenders knock Palace out, he can expect a message from an old friend in Manchester, who had his own FA Cup moment on Friday night.
It is now more than three years since the Doncaster striker experienced one of the very best days of his life when he scored the winning goal for his former team Cambridge United in a wildly celebrated third-round upset at Newcastle.
