"John Delaney , the charismatic Chief Executive of the Football Association of Ireland, has spent the last six months collaborating with Sunday Independent writer Barry Egan on a behind-the-scenes documentary for independent.ie. - See more at: "
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30562148.html
John Delaney collaborating with Barry Egan!!!!!!
Isnt that the same Barry Egan who believes he is a journalist because he follows non celebs who believe they are celebs?.....
Bloody comical
EDIT: MOD's move into Delaneys thread ....should have posted it there
Equally delete thread as garbage doesnt deserve advertising
Last edited by back of the net; 04/09/2014 at 10:04 PM.
there's two other "John Delaney" threads, but neither have been updated since 2007, so I'm designating this the John Delaney thread.
Have fun.
Also I'm pretty sure I'm going to need steel wool for my brain after this documentary
I did wonder why Delaney nominated Egan after his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge recently
dear god in heaven: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30562269.html
http://www.newstalk.ie/player/listen...he_Ball_Part_1
Kimmage discussing the fluff pieces in the Indo this weekend, about 40 mins in.
"In 2010 John effectively gave the sports fans of Ireland the greatest stadium ever built in this country, the state of the art Aviva"......
Thanks John.
Read the thing in the Indo today. Amazingly skewed puff piece. Delaney was made out to be an utter saint that Irish fans adore. Not a mention of league neglect, his wages or his drinking (not really). LOI mentioned only briefly, as part of a paragraph on devious "factions" within FAI Delaney had to tackle.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
I bought the uk edition of today's Sindo with no magazine, which apparently had a feature on JD. All I saw on JD in the main paper was the bit about his new girlfriend. "We're not seeking publicity at all, no, no, no. It's just that people are yapping". Yeah right.
I'd often wondered did Delaney and Denis O'Brien (leading shareholder in Independent News & Media, of course) have personal connections, but it seems the cosy relationship is strictly business.
I came across this earlier: O'Brien explaining why he funded Trap: http://www.independent.ie/business/o...-30565698.html
The altruistic benefactor... He must have been referring to the 5-2 defeat to Cyprus.Originally Posted by Irish Independent
Egan behind that article doesn't surprise me. Spends his time on his knees massaging egos of no body 'celebrities'.
If he was any way decent a journalist, he would take his head out of his JDs ass and ask him proper questions about the fai debt, the youth structures, the under performing league of Ireland etc
Was Delaney married before?
Part two: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30565166.html
Hard to know what too say. Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented seems to cover it.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
"Now John wore clothing of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey"
Are we talking about the same guy?
Reading articles on balls.ie makes me think of this stand up routine from Stewart Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YE9Kthyaco
The way it starts off, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a parody of one of those scripted junk "reality" shows on MTV. It kind of develops into a really bad episode of The Office then. I lolled at some points that were along the lines of: "Not only am I really modest and humble, but I'm a pretty big f*ckin' deal too!"
Dunphy claiming "Trappatoni didn't really work out", in spite of his simultaneous acknowledgement that he got us to the Euros?... Not that he sees that as any reason to be critical of Delaney anyhow, for it was Delaney who got us the "best man in the world" in the first place. Why is Dunphy, the inveterate critic and pessimist, so fawning of Delaney when he'd be absolutely scathing of anyone else who'd employed (or thrown away a few million on) an alleged failure?
There isn't seriously a part 3, is there?...
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