Did Brian de Salvo ever play in the LoI?

**Réiteoir** · 17/06/2005, 9:13 PM

As above - did the League's best pundit / social commentator ever take to the field in the League of Ireland?

**sullanefc** · 18/06/2005, 1:00 PM

Have to say that he is a really good pundit, and I'm surprised he doesn't do any TV-EL work. And what is his affiliation with Bray Wanderers?

**patsh** · 18/06/2005, 1:03 PM

De Salvo a "good pundit/commentator"????

Tosser should stick to putting on woeful productions of bad English plays.....

**tiktok** · 18/06/2005, 4:25 PM

I don't know if he's a good pundit, but his commentary pieces on the Friday night shows are very enjoyable.

As to the question, he playd in goals for Drumcondra for a while in years gone by.

**pineapple stu** · 18/06/2005, 8:54 PM

tiktok's right - apparently Pete Mahon once scored an own goal past him, and he's never forgiven him!

**paul_oshea** · 15/08/2011, 4:19 PM

Does Peter collins normally do the premiership at home now? Why wasn't con murphy doing RTEs coverage of the Rovers v Copenhagen game?

**Spudulika** · 15/08/2011, 7:01 PM

He played LOI, also, if I remember rightly, he was on the books of Crystal Palace as a youngster and played for lower and non-league sides before coming to Ireland. He's a very blunt reporter on the LOI, very clued in and while he can be a touch eccentric, he calls it as it is. I can't remember if I'm right, but I remember a report (99% sure it was him) he did about Dublin City, possibly when Rod jumped ship to Rovers.

I know this is a big mad to ask, but was he in some tv shows here? I know him from UCD, but I wasn't sure if he'd acted on Irish tv.

**poster** · 15/08/2011, 7:11 PM

I know this is a big mad to ask, but was he in some tv shows here? I know him from UCD, but I wasn't sure if he'd acted on Irish tv.

He's voiced a few radio ads the last while.

**CSFShels** · 15/08/2011, 11:32 PM

His extratime column is abysmal.

**pineapple stu** · 16/08/2011, 7:55 AM

Yeah; they're really rambling and kind of pointless. He had the same columns in the UCD programme when he was doing it (and I mean the exact same columns at times - he's just regurgitating stuff onto extratime) - one week, he had a column berating Airtricity for claiming that last year was the first ever Airtricity League, while the very next week, he was berating a club for claiming to have been in the EA Sports Cup Final before, when clearly it was a new competition. Far cry from the radio column, which I enjoyed whenever I listened (which was fairly rare, what with being at games of a Friday usually)

**Straightstory** · 16/08/2011, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by patsh

De Salvo a "good pundit/commentator"????

Tosser should stick to putting on woeful productions of bad English plays.....

Temper, temper.

**cornflakes** · 16/08/2011, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

I know this is a big mad to ask, but was he in some tv shows here? I know him from UCD, but I wasn't sure if he'd acted on Irish tv.

I presume this is his page on IMDB. He was in The Clinic for one episode as "Declan Fuller" in 2008

**Spudulika** · 16/08/2011, 5:13 PM

I know he made lots of commercials and that (producing or directing), he's a decent sort and I think, like many other decent sorts, wasted on LOI football. :-)

**littlebray** · 16/08/2011, 11:12 PM

Yeah, he has a fine record in theatre and TV (Savage - his latest, also brief appearances on The Clinic and the Tudors, and a long list back to 1979) and he's a good theatre director, too.

Eccentric (I suppose that goes with having been a goalie

?)

Yes, he was with Drums briefly as a goalie - I don't know dates - and as an earlier poster said briefly in the English League as well as non-league sides.

he was on the books of Crystal Palace as a youngster and played for lower and non-league sides before coming to Ireland

You may not agree with him, and he may change his mind with lightning speed at times, but he's always worth hearing or reading.

**CSFShels** · 17/08/2011, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by littlebray

You may not agree with him, and he may change his mind with lightning speed at times, but he's always worth hearing or reading.

His extra-time columns have been so far from worth reading. By far the worst of all the columnists on there, and the standard isn't amazingly high.

**stann** · 19/08/2011, 1:21 PM

I always enjoy his columns on ET, Youths reports in the Wexford papers when he used do them, and the odd programme bit you'd come across from time to time. In fairness Stu did he not say in his first ET piece that he would be digging up old articles, or did I dream that?
Very interesting and entertaining chap to talk to too. He has made any number of minor appearances in things on telly, and adverts (he was involved in creating some of the early ones apparently). Also, and arguably his greatest claim to fame, he played the professor in the incomparably brilliant film Zonad!