Dunphy

**mackannovic** · 18/10/2007, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by an_ceannaire

I would take O'Leary in a heartbeat
The man has managed!!!

Me too, also if you look at the Villa and Leeds sides there were a lot of young players involved, his "babies" as he often reminded us, during his time. Not only has he managed but he's managed at a relatively high level in comparison to the likes of Jewel and Bruce, who's experience of European competition is non-existant. He's also played at a very high level with Arsenal.

**EastTerracer** · 19/10/2007, 8:27 PM

My favourite Dunphy-ism (just to reveal the ludicrous things he is capable of).....

After Ireland-Holland in 1983 Dunphy wrote about Liam Brady:
" He is often looked on as a great player. He is nothing of the kind. His performance on Wednesday was a disgrace, a monument to conceit adorned with vanity and self-indulgence, rendered all the more objectional by the swagger of his gait. He was deemed by many observers to have had a splendid game."

More seriously, the RTE panel has failed to really hold Delaney responsible for the current mess (Chippy has tried to be fair). Dunphy did go so far on Wednesday to say that John Delaney's credibility was shot to pieces but Bill O'Herlihy then jumped in to defend Delaney for the second time in 5 minutes. You do begin to wonder if there is an old-pals network in operation there.

**TonyD** · 19/10/2007, 9:52 PM

Originally Posted by Roadend

Laving the Stan out aside, who do people want in? Dunphy has droned on about the FAI needing to splash the cash to get in a world class "management team" I see no suggestions as to who should come in.

Let's remember that Dunphys choice last time was Ian Dowie

(Now, granted, I'm sure he'd be better than Staunton, but hardly "world class")

**eirebhoy** · 19/10/2007, 9:56 PM

I must be the only person on here that would be in favour of Dowie.

Put it this way, the only reason there's so many people backing Souness is because he talks a lot of sense on RTE. Listen to Dowie on the BBC, he certainly knows his stuff.

**bennocelt** · 20/10/2007, 1:53 PM

Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

Can we please ban all mention of Dunphy? The guy's an idiot. Only in Ireland could someone with that little ability at anything make a living.

you obviously havent read his numerous books and excellent newspaper articles

................he does usually get it right in the end..............re Roddy Doyle, Smith, Robinson, pat Kenny, etc

**OwlsFan** · 20/10/2007, 4:39 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

you obviously havent read his numerous books and excellent newspaper articles

................he does usually get it right in the end..............re Roddy Doyle, Smith, Robinson, pat Kenny, etc

Yes. like predicting Liverpoll hadn't a hope of winning the Champions League and beating Chelsea

If you attack 95% of the people, you're bound to get something right once in a while. Pat Kenny - isn't he still hosting the Late Late?

Every c*ck likes to crow on his own dunghill.

**HolylandsMan** · 20/10/2007, 5:21 PM

Someone will probably come on and name the Napoli manager and he will prove to be a legen but I don't care - Venables is SH!TE!

Venables would have been my choice before Stan got the job. He was the closest to winning a major tournament with England in 40 years (admittedly at home). He has the international experience and would be a decent man motivator.

**bennocelt** · 20/10/2007, 6:00 PM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Yes. like predicting Liverpoll hadn't a hope of winning the Champions League and beating Chelsea

If you attack 95% of the people, you're bound to get something right once in a while. Pat Kenny - isn't he still hosting the Late Late?

Every c*ck likes to crow on his own dunghill.

read books,
like "Only a Game" , one of the best football books ever written, or his books on U2 or Busby

his Last Word show was unmissable at the time

and his Indo Articles on Kenny and Robinson are infamous

but then he didnt think Liverpool would win a CL.......shock horror

and pat Kenny ? your point was...........what exactly?

**NeilMcD** · 20/10/2007, 6:47 PM

U2 book is terrible, so many errors in it. Very poorlyl researched. Only good bits are the bits about Dublin in the 40s 50s and 60s;

**OwlsFan** · 21/10/2007, 9:13 AM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

read books,
like "Only a Game" , one of the best football books ever written, or his books on U2 or Busby

his Last Word show was unmissable at the time

and his Indo Articles on Kenny and Robinson are infamous

but then he didnt think Liverpool would win a CL.......shock horror

and pat Kenny ? your point was...........what exactly?

I have read "Only a Game". Can't remember anything significant about it and he's been living off the back of that cliche "one of the greatest football books ever written" for years. I preferred "The Team that jack Built" by Paul Rowan.

Prefer Matt Copper's Last Word. I try not to miss that.

If the Indo articles on Kenny and Robinson (Michael ?) are so "infamous", strange I have never heard anyone ever mentioning them unless that is the one where he called Kenny a plank? In which case I agree with him but in what other way was he right about Kenny who seems to be making a good living in RTE despite Dunphy's great insights apparently in to him.

It's not just Liverpool. He gets most predictions wrong and then blames the opposition for not living up to his expectations. But it's the saying (a) one week, and then (b) next week that I really love about the man. His quote about Mick Mc after we beat Holland is a case in point.

U2: see Neill Mc etc etc

**bennocelt** · 21/10/2007, 9:44 AM

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

I have read "Only a Game". Can't remember anything significant about it and he's been living off the back of that cliche "one of the greatest football books ever written" for years. I preferred "The Team that jack Built" by Paul Rowan.

Prefer Matt Copper's Last Word. I try not to miss that.

If the Indo articles on Kenny and Robinson (Michael ?) are so "infamous", strange I have never heard anyone ever mentioning them unless that is the one where he called Kenny a plank? In which case I agree with him but in what other way was he right about Kenny who seems to be making a good living in RTE despite Dunphy's great insights apparently in to him.

It's not just Liverpool. He gets most predictions wrong and then blames the opposition for not living up to his expectations. But it's the saying (a) one week, and then (b) next week that I really love about the man. His quote about Mick Mc after we beat Holland is a case in point.

U2: see Neill Mc etc etc

if thats the case so then how did Dunphy get to write books about U2, Busby and Roy Keane............a quality list wouldnt you think?

the articles he wrote have gone down in folklore.........i guess that it depends on your (biased) view on him, i know people who remember those articles and still talk about them. One friend even has the kenny article still (which is cool)

Kenny is good, but no one can deny that he goes all googly eyed when it comes to interviewing celebs or doing a "nice" story.
by the way Dunphy is also making a good living in RTE?

"Only A Game" is a classic, and i think most football people would agrre on this. May i suggest you reread again and take off the blinkers
"the team that jack" is good too, but hardly comparable

whatever you think about Dunphy.........people talk about him, people watch him and this thread will go on and on!

**OwlsFan** · 21/10/2007, 11:02 AM

In 2002, Dunphy became the first male host of the quiz show The Weakest Link, which aired on TV3, for just one series. In 2003, Dunphy was hired again by TV3 to host their new Friday night chat show, entitled The Dunphy Show. Pitted head-to-head with RT�'s The Late Late Show, Dunphy's show lost the highly publicised "ratings war", and was cancelled before its original run was to conclude.

In September 2004, Dunphy took over the Breakfast Show slot on the Dublin radio station NewsTalk 106 from David McWilliams. The show tried to court controversy and listeners in equal measure. He failed to attract the large listenership predicted, with only a few additional thousand tuning in. Attempts to attract disaffected morning listeners with controversial social commentators like Amanda Brunker failed to connect with listeners. In June 2006 Dunphy announced his intention to leave NewsTalk 106, citing an inability to sustain the demands of an early morning schedule. His decision to leave Newstalk coincided with the announcement that the station had won a national broadcasting licence. Subsequent to his departure from Newstalk 106 rumours circulated, confirmed by Dunphy in the Evening Herald, that he had been suffering a mystery illness for some time which had made keeping to an early morning schedule difficult.

Just some of Dunphy's great "successes" listed in Wikipedia.

Just because you're talked about doesn't make you anything important. Britney Spears is in the news all the time.

This guy supported his friends, the Kilcoynes, in the sale of Milltown. He has no right whatsoever to talk about Irish football or to be listened to but it's a democracy we live in so if people like to listen to the personal attacks on people who have achieved more in the game than he has, that's their choice but it's not mine.

**OwlsFan** · 21/10/2007, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

if thats the case so then how did Dunphy get to write books about U2, Busby and Roy Keane............a quality list wouldnt you think?

Wrote a book about Roy Keane

I thought that was supposed to be an "autobiography". All credit to autobiographies written by other people....

**CollegeTillIDie** · 22/10/2007, 7:22 AM

As a wiseman once said '' Opinions are like buttocks we all have a set of them... and some of them are full of sh1t!''

And Dunphy's are no different .....

**osarusan** · 22/10/2007, 1:27 PM

Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy

People on here are obsessed with what he says.

True. He's the guy people love to hate.

I don't hate him myself, he talks a lot of nonsense at times, but does know a lot about the business side of football, and why things happen in the footballing world.