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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭DaBreno


    Yaaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!

    why are you still watching him? Why?? You do know your license fees pay his wages! How does that make you feel??

    Stop paying so much attention. He is pure pantomine. You dont spend so much time dilberating over the view of the Stars of the World Wrestling Federation, why do ye give a **** what Dunphy thinks? The more illogical the statement the more outrage it generates and the more ratings he subsequently gets.

    He does not attempt to offer anything like analysis or an objective view of the sport. Controversy for its own sake. Show him the contempt he so desperatley deserves. Change the channel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Attractive Nun


    A few friends of mine and me were slagging each other today about who had recently expressed the most ridiculous football opinion. There was some tough competition, but I think we settled on one of the lads' belief that 'Hleb is twice the player Ronaldo is'.

    Dunphy easily topped that tonight with his 'Ireland have better players than Inter Milan'. I'm quite sure that is the most ludicrous thing I've heard anyone say about football, ever.


    I rarely watch RTÉ's CL coverage anymore mainly because of Dunphy, but it was on at one of the lads' houses tonight. I see I haven't been missing much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    Tusky wrote: »
    "Niall Quinn is a creep"

    I don't see anything wrong with this.:p


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    RealJohn wrote: »
    Dunphy tells it as he sees it which is a valuable quality in a pundit.
    He doesn't always get it right but he gets it right more than anyone other than Giles and Brady and I'm including in that all of the english punditry teams.
    Mascherano has yet to impress me. Certainly, I don't see 17 million in him.

    Oh dear lord, have you watched Liverpool this season?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    By the powers of google -

    "After watching Watford against Manchester City last night that was like a bubblebath. It was beautiful."
    - Eamon Dunphy, on the delights of watching Barcelona in the ECL

    "He's a gentleman. He's a class act. He's a rebel. And he stands up to bullies."
    - Eamonn Dunphy, with the climax of his defence of Roy Keane on "RTE"

    "Bayern, Arsenal, Real, Porto, haven't a hope. Chelsea good but won't win it, will struggle. AC Milan are not a top class side, Barcelona lack a bit of steel. If United beat Milan they'll win it"
    "I think Chelsea have a great chance"
    "I agree with John, I think Chelsea will beat Barcelona and reach the final."
    - Eamonn Dunphy, with a John Giles-inspired flip-flop

    "It would have to be a young, hungry fighter. That rules out everybody here." <jerks thumb towards Liam Brady>
    - Eamonn Dunphy, discussing possible replacements for Brian Kerr in the RTE studio

    "He doesn't look like a manager! He doesn't sound like a manager! ...Would you let him sit in your seat Bill, without any training? ...Would you let him drive the train to Cork without any training Bill? It's the same thing!"
    - Eamon Dunphy, letting fly at Steve Staunton on RTE (Sept'07)

    "Mentally slow; the weakest link; a tramp of a player."
    - Eamon Dunphy, excerpts from a rant against Rio Ferdinand

    "What I'm seeing on Match of the Day every week is pretty dreadful. They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an intelligent way. Anything that isn't banal is said to be an outburst. They've created this cartoon world where everyone talks like Lineker and says nothing."
    - Eamonn Dunphy, in an interview for "442 Magazine"

    "It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!"
    - Eamon Dunphy, watching a cagey Germany v Argentina for RTE

    "Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath."
    - Eamonn Dunphy

    'I don't think he's a thousand percent mentally'


    On Michael Carrick - " Carrick was signed for Spurs a few years back for
    £3m. That's the level he is at. He is a nothing player. He is one-paced.
    He doesn't have the personality to always get on the ball like a United
    player should. "

    On Rio Ferdinand - " Ferdinand is a clown. He was a liability for the
    first goal and he is always a liability. It was Jan Vennegoor of
    Hesselink
    against Rio Ferdinand of Barclays Bank. "

    On Fabio Cannavarro - "If Rio Ferdinand is worth £100,000 a week, then
    this guy is worth EUR100 million . . . . . a day"

    On the Midfield - " United have nothing in midfield - they are a
    shambles.
    Any decent sides they meet will destroy them. "

    On Kevin Kilbane - "Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he
    had three heads, one on the end of each leg."

    On Harry Kewell again - "He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all
    to see"

    On Luis Garcia - "They (Liverpool) should put Garcia where he belongs -
    in the dustbin."

    On Ireland in the 2002 World Cup - "I will be supporting Germany and
    Saudi Arabia in the contests ahead."

    On Garth Crooks and Sven Goran Eriksson - "ha, ha, ha, that's the first
    time you'll see sex between 2 men live on the bbc"

    On Djibril Cisse - "here we have Cisse, right wing, attempts to put in a
    cross, BANG...hits the full back, again BANG hits the full back,
    BANG...off the full back again, and once more, BANG...smacks the full
    back again.... Millions of euro and he can't clear the first man, I mean...whats he trying to do to the full back here, Kill him??"

    On Liverpool v Barca - "I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that
    Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mine up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him.
    Liverpool were terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If
    that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible."

    And probably my favourite -

    On about the Fergie V Strachen feud.
    Eamon: "Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid.
    Bill: "The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism".
    Eamon: "Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    stick-dan wrote: »
    If we all close our eyes he'll disappear.Here's hoping :)

    Its pure entertainment. The twelve minutes of analysis after the game tonight (and Dunphy was tame compared to most nights) was more enteraining than the 95 minutes of football.
    RedorDead wrote: »
    Think he may have been refering to Steve "Im the boss, im the gaffer" Staunton here. God.... remember Stan?

    He was indeed.
    I went into Paddy Power in February last year to place a bet on them winning it this year, but they didn't let me.

    Why ever not?
    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Arsenal playing in the community shield would bring me more joy than a world cup win.

    Fair play to you. You seem to love your club.
    DaBreno wrote: »
    Yaaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!

    why are you still watching him? Why?? You do know your license fees pay his wages! How does that make you feel??

    Stop paying so much attention. He is pure pantomine. You dont spend so much time dilberating over the view of the Stars of the World Wrestling Federation, why do ye give a **** what Dunphy thinks? The more illogical the statement the more outrage it generates and the more ratings he subsequently gets.

    He does not attempt to offer anything like analysis or an objective view of the sport. Controversy for its own sake. Show him the contempt he so desperatley deserves. Change the channel.

    He's like the greatest fictional character anyone could ever invent. Talks absolute drivel, makes little or no sense, is proved wrong 99% of the time and still we watch. I f*cking love the RTE coverage.

    I think its safe to say if his opinions were in the form of posts on this forum rather than national television, he would have been banned long ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 448 ✭✭jimmyboy


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.

    That seems fair enough:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭scruff321


    twas some rant! i think the man is entertaining, can come out with some inteligent comments but some of the stuff he comes out with is just pure crap!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,097 ✭✭✭✭Tusky


    On about the Fergie V Strachen feud.
    Eamon: "Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid.
    Bill: "The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism".
    Eamon: "Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill".

    I actually agree with this! Scottish people are either the soundest people you could hope to meet or they are absolute *****. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground.

    That one about putting Luis Garcia in the dustbin is classic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Tusky wrote: »
    They are 6th in the league and all they have won recently is the Uefa Cup!



    I'm honestly not trying to start and argument with you and I dont want to offend...but I find that comment mind boggling. Anyone who knows anything about football can see that the boy is class.

    No, anyone who has an opinion on football can either decide if the guy is worth 17 million, or his true value should be much lower than that.

    Its the common conception that in order to appreciate Mascherano one must be a real football fan, as he 'doesn't do the obvious'...sort of like when Adrian Chiles made this cliché about Didi Hamann on MOTD 2 last week.

    How many goals has Mascherano got for Liverpool? One tops!!!! A central midfielder should be able to score around 4-5 goals a season minimum. Have you seen the guy shoot? I don't think he has ever scored other than in the Copa America.

    The guy has talent because when he first broke on the scene with River Plate he actually had skill, but if he is worth 17 million, then Cambiasso, Pirlo, Iniesta and De Rossi should break all transfer records.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Its the common conception that in order to appreciate Mascherano one must be a real football fan, as he 'doesn't do the obvious'...sort of like when Adrian Chiles made this cliché about Didi Hamann on MOTD 2 last week.

    It's not merely a cliche, it's a fact. Hamann plays simple five yard passes and wins countless silly free kicks to get us out of trouble. Mascherano does a lot of covering in front of his back four. That's his role.
    How many goals has Mascherano got for Liverpool? One tops!!!! A central midfielder should be able to score around 4-5 goals a season minimum. Have you seen the guy shoot?

    Since when has football just been about scoring goals? It's about keeping them out too. You need players who can defend too.
    Its The guy has talent because when he first broke on the scene with River Plate he actually had skill, but if he is worth 17 million, then Cambiasso, Pirlo, Iniesta and De Rossi should break all transfer records.

    Firstly, you don't just lose skill.

    Secondly Iniesta doesn't play the holding midfielder role. He is given a licence to go forward, Mascherano isn't.

    Now that Xavi fella on the other hand, he's priceless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Secondly Iniesta doesn't play the holding midfielder role. He is given a licence to go forward, Mascherano isn't.

    Iniesta even played up front for a decent chunk of the season.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭stick-dan


    Mascho and iniesta are two players that couldn't be more different than each other. Masch is the new hamann. On the subject of hamann anyone see him last week for c**y he was immense.

    Hope masch turns out to be half the player hammann was. He would easily be worth 17 million then. He doesn't have to score goals. He protects to allow the others llicence to and he is one hell of a tackler and he definitely aint slow either. I'd nearly say mistake him for a liverpudlian;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    How many goals has Mascherano got for Liverpool? One tops!!!! A central midfielder should be able to score around 4-5 goals a season minimum. Have you seen the guy shoot? I don't think he has ever scored other than in the Copa America.

    How many goals has Makelele scored in his career?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Melion wrote: »
    How many goals has Makelele scored in his career?

    Just with regards to your sig, I think Dunphy was being the ultimate troll tonight. He knows as well as anyone else that Liverpool should never ever be written off in Europe. He said that so it would get people talking, and if Liverpool win the second leg people will tune in to hear him try and worm his way out of it. Then when they win the quarter final, semi-final etc... it'll be the same. He's RTE's single greatest crowd puller, a true master of the show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,595 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Just with regards to your sig, I think Dunphy was being the ultimate troll tonight. He knows as well as anyone else that Liverpool should never ever be written off in Europe. He said that so it would get people talking, and if Liverpool win the second leg people will tune in to hear him try and worm his way out of it. Then when they win the quarter final, semi-final etc... it'll be the same. He's RTE's single greatest crowd puller, a true master of the show.

    Am I the only one who watched the match? The Ref was a disgrace, the thing should be replayed, 12 against 10.

    Of course you can't write Liverpool off when they have the sort of help and luck they had tonight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Boggles wrote: »
    Am I the only one who watched the match? The Ref was a disgrace, the thing should be replayed, 12 against 10.

    Of course you can't write Liverpool off when they have the sort of help and luck they had tonight.

    Erm Liverpool were denied a clear penalty and Vieira handled the ball on three seperate occasions. The ref was bad but wasn't biased. The sending-off was wrong but the non-penalty was too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,595 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Erm Liverpool were denied a clear penalty and Vieira handled the ball on three seperate occasions. The ref was bad but wasn't biased. The sending-off was wrong but the non-penalty was too.

    Ref didn't see it, it was the linesmans call, maybe he felt sorry for Milan for having a player robbed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Boggles wrote: »
    Ref didn't see it, it was the linesmans call, maybe he felt sorry for Milan for having a player robbed.

    Ah thats ok so. Glad we cleared that up. How'd you get in touch with the ref btw?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,595 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Ah thats ok so. Glad we cleared that up. How'd you get in touch with the ref btw?

    Quite sure the Ref could not see through Viera's back.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Boggles wrote: »
    Quite sure the Ref could not see through Viera's back.

    You don't have to see through someones back when the ball is at or above head height. It was as blatant a penalty as you are likely to see. What was the referee saying about the other hand balls by the way?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,595 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    You don't have to see through someones back when the ball is at or above head height. It was as blatant a penalty as you are likely to see. What was the referee saying about the other hand balls by the way?

    It was blatant to you sitting comfortably with your 4 different camera angles and slow motion.

    Liverpool were very lucky tonight, would have been a completely different match if it wasn't spoiled in the 30th minute.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Boggles wrote: »
    It was blatant to you sitting comfortably with your 4 different camera angles and slow motion.

    And everyone in Anfield bar the referee. Are you saying it wasn't a handball, that the referee can be excused for not seeing it, or that the linesman didn't give it to balance out the red card.
    Liverpool were very lucky tonight, would have been a completely different match if it wasn't spoiled in the 30th minute.

    I agree. Inter weren't up to much before the red card though. I've never seen a team go down to ten men and play as poorly as Inter did tonight though. Did you see the shot count?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,595 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    I agree. Inter weren't up to much before the red card though. I've never seen a team go down to ten men and play as poorly as Inter did tonight though. Did you see the shot count?

    Before the red card, Inter were playing like Italians do.

    Are you saying Liverpool did not get the rub of the green tonight?

    3 turning points in the game.

    1. Sending off
    2. Inter's best player getting injured.
    3. A deflected goal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    :mad: What happened to the Dunphy quotes?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,595 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    :mad: What happened to the Dunphy quotes?

    Sorry

    "I'll tell you about that guy, that gutter journalist, he is the guy that left his wife and ran away with a young one"

    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Boggles wrote: »
    Before the red card, Inter were playing like Italians do.

    Read: Defending and boring football.
    Are you saying Liverpool did not get the rub of the green tonight?

    I'm saying both sides were lucky/unlucky. The ref wasn't biased. Inter were unlucky first though.
    3 turning points in the game.

    1. Sending off
    2. Inter's best player getting injured.
    3. A deflected goal.

    Yep, yep and yep. But it was a penalty, can't you even admit that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Boggles wrote: »
    "I'll tell you about that guy, that gutter journalist, he is the guy that left his wife and ran away with a young one"

    Myself and a lad in work can't go a day in work without saying that one.

    "I'll tell ya who wrote it. Rod Liddle!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,176 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    "Gerrard, found out tonight, nothing player"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,595 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Read: Defending and boring football.



    I'm saying both sides were lucky/unlucky. The ref wasn't biased. Inter were unlucky first though.



    Yep, yep and yep. But it was a penalty, can't you even admit that?

    Yeah sterling penalty. Never said it wasn't.

    Can you admit everything bar the penalty went Liverpools way tonight and that Barnsley are a better team? :)


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