Dunphy: Roy’s full of bull
By Adrian Russell
CONTROVERSIAL television pundit Eamon Dunphy — who helped Roy Keane pen his controversial autobiography — lunged two-footed, into the ‘bulls******g’ Sunderland manager with a remarkable tirade yesterday.
Former Ireland international Dunphy, who famously fell out with fellow Montrose panellist John Giles over Keane’s Saipan row with Mick McCarthy, now believes his former friend has been ‘sucked in’.
“I know Roy well and the one thing he hated when I knew him and when we were working on that book, he hated the bull**** that was part of manager-speak and part of player-speak,” Dunphy told RTÉ’s Pat Kenny Show on Radio 1 yesterday.
“And now he holds these lengthy press conferences every week in which he anoints David O’Leary to be the next Ireland manager, anoints Terry Venables as the next Ireland manager, he’s talked about the Cork GAA dispute, talked about how wonderful it is for the Premier League to play more games abroad and he’s just become rent-a-quote. And it’s quite extraordinary.
“This is a sharp, smart, outstanding human being and he’s just been sucked into that awful Premier League vacuousness and it’s sad to see Roy Keane bulls******g, but he is.
“But there you go. It happens.”
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