Eamo, John, Bill and Liam all sort of needed each other really.
The dynamic was absolutely incredible.
RTE Soccer coverage from 2002-2014 was the peak of television.
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I never claimed he was a radical. He was to quote Kris Kristofferson a walking contradiction partly truth and partly fiction. But in his prime when he was really engaged he was a terrific interviewer and pundit. Now he just seems worn out which is understandable considering the life he has lead.
I never said you did
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this was the pinnacle
Where did you manage?
I managed to stay alive for 63 & 1/2 years Baby!!
That’s like a TFK match day thread played out live to the nation 
The 2 lads completely missing Souness’ point and ganging up on him and Billo getting told to shut the fuck up. Bill’s smirk. Ah lads.
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Dunphy is poison.
He has ranted as a journalist against two of the best Irish people - John Hume and Mary Robinson.
He ran Mick McCarthy out a job in relation to Saipan and constantly advocated Keane’s greatness.
Then he flip flopped. As he does.
His football knowledge is shocking. Ronaldo - more flip flopping. His calling for Wes Hoolahan to start instead of Glenn Whelan in an Irish match showed his complete lack of basic knowledge of the set up of a team.
And last but not least, Shane Ross was his best man.
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Giles was getting riled there which was rare. Souness didn’t quite know what to do as he was used to sky non debate TV and he looked a bit dismissive of the others.
Dunphy: Stay out of this Bill,This is a football debate 
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Flamini is a sitting player. denilson is a sitting player
no. no. no
Song is a sitting player
no no no . You don’t know what you’re talking about. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Souness remained incredibly calm
Right at the start - Bill, can I make an assumption that there is 30m there.
All three. No
Bill. RIght, so, I’m going to say there’s 30 million there
It really is gold
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I miss that panel. I used to love watching champions league on RTE. A World Cup or a euros was incredible. They were absolutely box office. Nowadays I turn off the telly once the match is over.
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same as that… there just isn’t the character there to pull it off. Sky Sports with Keane and Carragher is watchable - Keane is a very witty guy
The studio analysis was the best part of Irish soccer for a decade or so
Look at the face on Didi Hamann here as the two boys go off
This was the pinnacle of dunphy. I’m amazed he kept his job.
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You’d almost watch the matches looking for something you know would set Dunphy off. Ronaldo would take on a shot when he shouldn’t or lose the ball doing a step over and you’d be like “here we go”
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Would agree with a lot if the above regarding the great mans podcast, very repetitive.
Doesn’t really seem to cover Irish politics at all, plenty of spoofers there for Eamo to have a cut off
One of his podcast this week was a bit different it had Paul Sonmetville (a stalwart of Vincent Brownes tv show circa 2008) talking about stick market/GameStop etc
Eamo to Brady - “you’ve jumped the fence baby”
This is complete magic.
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These lads have the balls to say on national tv what some lads would only say on the internet 
We’ve got an idiot like Niall Quinn
Bill was a terrific anchor of that may the Lord rest him
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Like just throws out Ferguson has lost the plot and nobody even notices. Imagine if you said that the bbc.
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it was very disappointing to see how Bill made his money
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The Champions League nights on RTE when Barca were in their pomp were incredible
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the footix are way too into tv commentary
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Let the nostalgia go lads.
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Dunphy will pass on in due course and we can kick it all off then.