Keith Andrews is looking forward to renewing acquaintances with John Egan on Sunday as he takes his Brentford side to Hull on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Andrews worked with Egan during coaching spells with the Republic of Ireland and Sheffield United and before the 46-year-old took over at Gtech Stadium in 2025.<\/p>\n
Egan worked under Andrews’ predecessor Thomas Frank during a successful two-year spell with the Bees and after he helped Hull to promotion last season, the centre-back is set to not only face his old coach but former club this weekend.<\/p>\n
“He’s someone that I really like as a man,” Andrews told a press conference.<\/p>\n
“I coached him at international level and I also coached him at Sheffield United, so I know John pretty well.<\/p>\n
“I’m so happy for him that he’s made that move to Hull, got the promotion back, playing at the highest level and still playing a really important role for our country.<\/p>\n
“He’s a player you would go into the trenches with. He’s been a magnificent player. He’s a man that I really admire and like.”<\/p>\n
Egan made 71 appearances for Brentford in the Championship after he joined from Gillingham in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Andrews is looking forward to renewing acquaintances with John Egan on Sunday as he takes his Brentford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-663087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}