Monaco looking good for 3-1 now.
Dunphy was discussing Atlético Madrid earlier and was telling the RTÉ audience how they have traditionally been a "selling club". To illustrate his point, he plucked out of his arse the "example" of Atlético having "sold Diego Forlán to Manchester United quite a long time ago"...
Of course, Forlán signed for United from Argentine club Independiente in 2002 before moving to Villareal in 2004 and then on to Atlético in 2007. His next club was Inter Milan in 2011.
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Your nitpicking now....Dumby doesn't need to do accuracy because that would entail knowing what he was talking about .Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
Dunphy was discussing Atlético Madrid earlier and was telling the RTÉ audience how they have traditionally been a "selling club". To illustrate his point, he plucked out of his arse the "example" of Atlético having "sold Diego Forlán to Manchester United quite a long time ago"...
Of course, Forlán signed for United from Argentine club Independiente in 2002 before moving to Villareal in 2004 and then on to Atlético in 2007. His next club was Inter Milan in 2011.
He also said Ancelotti was sacked despite winning La Liga I believe, which he never did.
RTÉ preview/analysis of the playoff defeat to The Netherlands at Anfield in 1995 - http://www.the42.ie/rte-ireland-holl...91414-May2017/
43 minutes - hmmmm. Anything of interest ?
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
I only watched the first couple of minutes myself so far. A nice little Beatles/Ireland montage at the start!
I've watched bits and pieces here and there and it certainly evokes a sense of nostalgia. It features a nice pre-match rendition of 'YNWA' sung by the fans towards the start and also an emotional Jack waving the fans farewell from the pitch (at around 28m30s) as the curtain comes down on his time in charge.
There are interviews with Townsend and McGrath at the end too.
Tommy Gorman also reports from the Dutch camp before the game and makes reference to them feeling lucky to have made it to the play-off due to having lost group games to the Czech Republic and Belarus, or "White Russia" as he also calls them. It's an amusing use of an archaism of which I'd somehow never been aware until now. A bit like Giles frequently referring to the Czech Republic as "Czechoslovakia".
Was Paddy Crerand a regular pundit? I would have been ten-years-old at the time, but I don't recall having seen him much on RTÉ back in the day. Maybe my memory is failing me or I was just focused exclusively on what was going on on the field! Where was Dunphy?
Crerand was quite regular, yes.
Yes and Joe Kinnear as well. Frank Stapleton also. Probably a Wikipedia site someplace which lists all the panelists but the others were mostly before Giles and Dunphy sewed up the job for around 20 years.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
I definitely recall Kinnear very clearly and have vaguer memories of Stapleton.
Crerand was there for a couple of years I think, 94-96.
Was an utterly miserable pundit, I was really pleased when he stopped appearing.
He went on to work for MUTV, and was, even by club tv standards, incredibly biased.
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His furious refusal to believe reports of Alex Ferguson's then-impending retirement in 2013 is comical:
30 minutes after the Newstalk interview finished, Manchester United officially confirmed Ferguson's retirement.
A piece on George Hamilton by Marie Crowe for tomorrow's match programme: http://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/georg...ce-of-a-nation
O'Neill seemed a lot more amicable towards TOD this time I thought. Maybe because Tony was more agreeable than usual and resisted asking him why he didn't start Hoolahan - http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/int...3423/10737457/
RIP Jimmy Magee - https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2017...e-passes-away/
Edit - RTÉ tribute here...
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Tony making another enemy last night, poor fella can't catch a break - https://twitter.com/RTEsoccer/status/966437487571714051
RTÉ didn't seem to grasp the deliberate looseness of Mourinho's exaggerated reply - https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2018...ogba-question/
What do people think of Ronnie Whelan as a co-commentator? His persistent moaning does my head in and I even went over to the BBC for the England game against Panama which was a mistake as they had Danny Murphy who came from the Apres Match version of Barry Davies and "the nasty Johnny foreigner school" and our boys are brill. I then watched the games with the sound offI don't mind Beglin, Kerr (a bit nasally), Houghton (because of those goals), Kilbane - well most to be honest so long as it's not Whelan (and now Murphy).
The RTE Panels aren't bad. Nice to see Doyle and Duffer. Brady is probably past his sell by date. Didi Hamann is also interesting.
I had to laugh at Shearer and Pablo Zabaleta (I think) on the BBC Panel bemoaning the diving and feigning injury at the Iran/Portugal game. Who was sitting in between them but the Greg Lousanis of football diving: Didier Drogba. I got so embarrassed for him I had to go over to Coronation Street.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Whelan is tough going alright. Funnily enough, when he's being interviewed by George in a more casual sense pre-match he seems full of positivity, a guy really enjoying life, his surroundings and looking forward to the game in question. That all seems to change at kickoff regardless of how watchable the match might be.
Houghton is a bit full on. Every time he criticises a player for not hitting the target or working the keeper I think of Wembley '91. Sorry Ray, but even Stuttgart & New Jersey don't get you off the hook for that one. There was a chance the other day actually which was quite similar to his one-on-one against Egypt, "all he had to do was lift it", says Ray.
I've always liked Beglin. He has a good rapport with Hamilton in particular.
The panel in general have been very good alright I think.
I can't stand Brady or Dunphy anymore, and Moloney's habit of egging them on and not challenging patently ridiculous comments is really tiresome. Aside from the general crankiness and Dunphy's niche as "Say something, proven wrong, say the opposite" I think part of it is this sense of glee on their faces when confronted with some kind of negativity they can harp on about, like last night with the Argentinian manager's lone celebrations: Dunphy had a gigantic ****-eating grin on his face as he commented, that just struck me as so mean-spirited. Sadlier isn't a lot better, but Hamann I like, and Andrews, very articulate and knowledgeable.
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