The Eamon Dunphy Thread

Frank Murphy would have solved it in five minutes.

Mayfield would have hosted the 2002 county final .

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The great man turns 80 tomorrow.

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Don’t fucking Tempt fate

The best of us. . Part spoofer part poet, part provo part unionist, part gah, part soccer , partt philosopher , part drunk.

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You’ll have the clips, the Rod Liddels, but this was beautiful. The genius of Tommy and the magnificence of Eamon.

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Tremendous.

To Dunphy

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He pulled out a sheet of paper and put the glasses on to put down Venables another night. It was pure theatre.

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When the glasses came out you knew this was going to be good

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Everyone would sit back and enjoy what was going to happen.

Souness said that the first time he was on with Dunphy, he couldn’t get over what he was allowed to say compared to the UK.

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He drove me absolutely mental with his shite talk but he was the key man in probably the best Irish sports show of all time. ‘what did the panel say?’ sound turned up in pubs and all. Crowds standing outside slatterys watching it after Ireland matches.
Is there anywhere to read his eviscerations of pat Kenny etc the sindo? Probably half bullshit too but very box officey

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One of my favourites was a Man City Champions League match around 2015.

“Fernandinho wasn’t playing tonight but you wouldn’t have noticed, Fernando was playing tonight but you wouldn’t have noticed, Mangala wasn’t playing because he’s USELESS”

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I’d say half of them resulted in libel cases

That time at the World Cup when he was saying all the South Americans were headbangers and Bill pulled him up on it saying it was racist, and Dunphy goes, “its not racism Bill, its ethnic criticism” :joy:

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Was that not about the scotch being tightarses?

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Possibly. He definitely had a right go at the South Americans in 2014.

Uruguay and Colombia and all these teams were just mental.

Your Henry Shefflin’s, your Brian O’Driscoll’s, your Ruby Walsh’s, your John Oxx’s

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