Career
He was also capped four times by the Irish Under 21 team He never made a first-team appearance, and was loaned to Shamrock Rovers in January 1992. He made his League of Ireland debut for Rovers against Dundalk on 26 January 1992 and in total scored three times in ten league appearances that season.
After returning to Arsenal at the end of the 1991-1992 League of Ireland season Bacon went on loan to Derry City F.C. in January 1993 where he scored three goals in twelve league appearances.
He was released by Arsenal on a free transfer in the 1993 close season. He made two appearances in the 1994-1995 Union of European Football Associations Cup but in October 1994 Bacon was put on the transfer list along with six other players Foreign the 1995-1996 League of Ireland season Bacon signed for Street James"s Gate F.C. for what turned out to be their final season in the League of Ireland.
Bacon represented his country at schoolboy, youths, U15, U16, U19 and at U21 level As an U16 international he scored twice against Northern Ireland in October 1988 He was part of the team who lost to Switzerland in the final qualifier for the 1989 Union of European Football Associations European Under-16 Football Championship.
Bacon was part of the team that played at the 1991 Fédération internationale de football association World Youth Championship.
