Tony Scullion
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Nickname | Scud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 February 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Gaelic football, hurling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Full-back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Scullion (Irish: Antóin Ó Scolláin; born 6 February 1962), often known as Scud, is a former Gaelic games dual player who played Gaelic football and hurling with Derry in the 1980s and 1990s. He was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Championship-winning side, also lifting the Ulster Senior Football Championship in 1987 and 1993. He has three National Football League medals. With Derry footballers he usually played in the full-back line and is regarded as one of the best of his generation. He twice represented Ireland in the International Rules series. Scullion played club football and hurling with St Colm's GAC Ballinascreen.
Scullion is among the few players who won four All Stars and was named full-back on the Irish News Team of the Decade in 2004. The public voted him on to the All-Time Derry Football Team via an online poll in 2007. In 2008, he was a candidate for the vacant Derry Senior football manager's job. Previous clubs he has managed include Ballinascreen, Kildress and Eglish. He was Ulster assistant manager to Joe Kernan for the 2008 Railway Cup.
He was a member of the Football Review Committee that recommended that a black card be brought into play for deliberate fouls, "cynical behaviour infractions", from the 2014 season onwards; Scullion believes the black card to have been a great success.