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Dunphy

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


    adox wrote: »
    Vintage Dunphy! Hes a bafoon but a very entertaining one.
    Brady is the only one that ever seems to stand up to him when he goes on a rant. It was an accident waitng to happen.

    Hilarious stuff. I was laughing out loud at them.:D

    He was right about the point that they shouldn't just hold back because Brady was there, but why the **** was he in since the crack of dawn editing that video package? lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭ironingbored


    Listening to Dunphy going on about Richard Dunne you would think he had discovered the next Cannavaro. Arsenal would have won the league and champions league if they'd had Dunne. Is there a list of all Dunphy's ridiculous utterances over the years? A bit like George W.'s bushisms?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Ah, Dunphy knows what buttons to press, he just winds Brady up and watches him go! He even had Souness in on the act there, he brought up the topic of Wenger "losing it". Poor aul Bill started to get fierce annoyed too!

    But once Giles is away, Dunphy'll play! Great entertainment:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Was a big bag of lols watching them go at it. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    Was hilarious entertainment alright. Ya gotta love Bill the way he eggs it on like some sh*t stirrer in a school playground. :D

    Brady: "If I'd known you were going to show that footage I wouldn't have appeared tonight."

    Bill: "Really? Oh why's that Liam?"

    These guys are definitely worth the license fee I don't care what anyone says.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭aidan24326


    shane86 wrote: »
    I heard word somewhere Dunphy slagged off Roy in his paper column, is that true?

    He did indeed. In The Star on Monday. Didn't slag him off completely, he acknowledged what a great player he was and all of that, but certainly had a go alright, suggesting that Roy has wasted alot of money on crap players and is doing too much mouthing in the media (pot and kettle methinks) etc etc. He also criticised him for having a dig at United about the way he departed the club. Seems the Dunphy-Keano love affair is cooling quite a bit! I wonder if something happened between them, a couple of years Dunphy was ready to have Roy's babies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Was hilarious entertainment alright. Ya gotta love Bill the way he eggs it on like some sh*t stirrer in a school playground. :D

    Brady: "If I'd known you were going to show that footage I wouldn't have appeared tonight."

    Bill: "Really? Oh why's that Liam?"

    These guys are definitely worth the license fee I don't care what anyone says.

    It certainly beats the planks on any other soccer broadcasts, there have been times in the past when I thought they were going to physically assault each other. My money would be on Brady, I'd say Dunphy would fight dirty though.


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


    See my sig for Eamon's classic :D

    Someone please youtube tonights debacle, was in the pub so only caught pieces of it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 620 ✭✭✭NotWormBoy


    Dunphy was way out of line tonight, for all that Brady was acting the tit and shouldn't have been there, you don't get personal like that in live TV - if you do and the other lad has any sense of tv morals, there's nothing he can do to respond. And thats not a situation you put anyone in on live TV.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,065 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Dunphy is a joke nowadays.
    He was interesting and thought provoking up until a few years ago.
    Now all he does is just rant opinionated nonsense .
    His predictions are 90% incorrect ,he keeps repeating himself and he seems to have very little if no facts to back up his notions.
    He seems to be a propaganda machine for certain players who he incorrectly thinks are 'Great' players while other skillful players are dismissed as crap.
    Last week he was ranting on about what a God Rooney is,this week he launched a volatile attack on Arsenal.
    They were very unfortunate to lose the tie over 2 legs ,primarily due to one poor player and 2 contentious refereeing decisions.
    The width of a hair separated the teams.
    I like Brady as a pundit ,he is shrewd and knows his football well.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭invincibleirish


    It probably has been mentioned but why take him so seriously? he is a talking head just doing what we do on boards, no one can be 100% in their predictions and sure the more wrong they are the more hilarious it is.

    This tv punditry gig is just part of his media profile, threads like this epitomise his celebrity, love him or hate him, you certainly know him, and read him, and watch him, and listen to him, and buy his books (ghost written or otherwise).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭JimiTime


    Oh it was brilliant! Who was playing tonight again?:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭dc69


    I think Brady being so ridiculously bitter encouraged him,Brady had a tantrum and Dunphy riled him,it was funny.

    As much as souness is biased towards pool,if we had lost he wouldnt have acted like Brady did.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭vorbis


    It might also have something to do with the fact that we lost due to two bad penalty calls :(
    Besides who cares what that washed up alcoholic thinks anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Beerlao


    anyone who moans about Dunphy, just watch the coverage on BBC or UTV and see how BORING and back-slappy it all is. not one opinion (ridiculous or not) between the whole lot of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭ibh


    vorbis wrote: »
    It might also have something to do with the fact that we lost due to two bad penalty calls :(
    Besides who cares what that washed up alcoholic thinks anyways.

    Youdidn't lose anything from 2 bad penalty calls. You had a good penalty denied in the first game. After that, get a grip on yourself. Toure had no more chance of winning the ball,so it was a penalty. If Arsenal were the better team they would have gone through. When they needed a goal before Adebeyor struck, it was L'pool on the attack and in control. They scored from a fabulous break by Walcott, but it started 30yrds from his goal when L'pool were on the attack.

    Brady was thoroghly unprofessional not accepting that on the night Liverpool were the better team. He just refused to see it. I was disgusted by his co-commentry last week when he didn't even attempt to be impartial and i think because of that Giles was swapped into commentry tonight. His suggestion that Wenger was animated becuase his team were not getting what they deserve was pure bullsh!t. Arsenal had an excellent first half of the season but recently they have been getting exactly what they deserve. Including the AC game where they destroyed them and got an excellent result.

    And by the way, Dunphy is a muppet, obviously. But Brady was so pro-Arsenal that he set himself up for an attack by Dunphy. As usual Eamo has to mention how great some of ManYoo's players are.. Why does he always go back to that rubbish, suggesting Giggs is one of the reasons they win big games. Is he watching the same Giggs that i've seen this year???

    Another interesting point was Giles reaction when the penalty was given. He went, "ah no!!". Again what happened to impartial commentators??? I'm not suggesting by the way that he's an Arsenal fan or a L'pool hater. Just that it was unprofessional.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Wreck


    ibh wrote: »
    Another interesting point was Giles reaction when the penalty was given. He went, "ah no!!". Again what happened to impartial commentators??? I'm not suggesting by the way that he's an Arsenal fan or a L'pool hater. Just that it was unprofessional.

    The 'ah no' was meant as 'ah no ref, thats not a penalty', at least that was my interpretation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Evil_Clown


    dc69 wrote: »
    I think Brady being so ridiculously bitter encouraged him,Brady had a tantrum and Dunphy riled him,it was funny.

    As much as souness is biased towards pool,if we had lost he wouldnt have acted like Brady did.

    If Liverpool had lost would RTE have shown images of Benetiz acting frantically on the touchline (which nearly every manager does) and then called him names followed by having a laugh at him (O'Herlihey and Dunphy could both be seen laughing) That was a bad piece of television RTE, leave that for gift grub you guys are supposed to be 'unbiased' and taken seriously. O'Herlihey was the worst imo, he at one stage insinuated that Wenger might get the sack which goes to show his complete lack of knowledge in both Football and Arsenal FC matters.

    If this same ridicule had been made of Fergie, I'd like to see the reaction


  • Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ibh wrote: »
    Another interesting point was Giles reaction when the penalty was given. He went, "ah no!!". Again what happened to impartial commentators??? I'm not suggesting by the way that he's an Arsenal fan or a L'pool hater. Just that it was unprofessional.

    Giles was mocking Arsenal most of the night. He came across as pro Liverpool. I think he said "Oh no" because it was a questionable penalty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭raven136


    Evil_Clown wrote: »
    If Liverpool had lost would RTE have shown images of Benetiz acting frantically on the touchline (which nearly every manager does) and then called him names followed by having a laugh at him (O'Herlihey and Dunphy could both be seen laughing) That was a bad piece of television RTE, leave that for gift grub you guys are supposed to be 'unbiased' and taken seriously. O'Herlihey was the worst imo, he at one stage insinuated that Wenger might get the sack which goes to show his complete lack of knowledge in both Football and Arsenal FC matters.

    If this same ridicule had been made of Fergie, I'd like to see the reaction

    he wont get the sack but does there come a point where arsenal fans start saying the "kids" are great and the football is great to look at but united,chelsea and liverpool have all won something in the past 3 seasons.
    The kids are also an average age of 24/25 so is it time to start winning now?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    vorbis wrote: »
    Besides who cares what that washed up alcoholic thinks anyways.
    Well judging by the amount of threads and attention his opinions receive I'd say quite a lot of people actually.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭oobydooby


    Evil_Clown wrote: »
    If Liverpool had lost would RTE have shown images of Benetiz acting frantically on the touchline (which nearly every manager does) and then called him names followed by having a laugh at him (O'Herlihey and Dunphy could both be seen laughing) That was a bad piece of television RTE, leave that for gift grub you guys are supposed to be 'unbiased' and taken seriously.

    Fair point, I think Brady was right to be annoyed at that, it was disrespectful IMO. However Brady didn't come across well, being a man means you accept defeat graciously, not like a spoilt child who always wins or always expects to win. Generally Liam is ok though - he knows a lot and is quite objective and upfront about his situation with Arsenal.

    The Dunphy show is getting tiresome - better than British channels perhaps but... He should be dropped for a while. If they need a controversial/funny clown/troll on the panel they should get some real comedians (gift grub, apres match or russell brand) and not a lazy celebrity ex-footballer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    ibh wrote: »

    Another interesting point was Giles reaction when the penalty was given. He went, "ah no!!". Again what happened to impartial commentators??? I'm not suggesting by the way that he's an Arsenal fan or a L'pool hater. Just that it was unprofessional.

    Ah, no! I think his initial reaction might have been that the peno looked soft. Or that the defender had blown the tie for his team. But why do you think commentators are impartial, or should be? They are there to inform and, most importantly, entertain.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭ibh


    nipplenuts wrote: »
    Ah, no! I think his initial reaction might have been that the peno looked soft. Or that the defender had blown the tie for his team. But why do you think commentators are impartial, or should be? They are there to inform and, most importantly, entertain.

    Maybe i picked it up wrong on the peno incident. Only heard it once obviously and thought it sounded like what you hear a fan say!! Most others seem to agree with you though, so i'll give him the benefit.

    Disagree with that. Have no problem with pundits having affiliation to the respective teams. I think the commentators are there to inform not entertain. I know its hard to do though. You should listen to the commentry on Dundalk FM for the 'Town's' games!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    raven136 wrote: »
    The kids are also an average age of 24/25 so is it time to start winning now?

    It is time to start winning, yes, but you have your average age wrong there (if by kids you mean the teams younger players, obviously Gallas and the like will but the total average age up if they were included)......

    Diaby = 21
    Fabregas = 20
    Clichy = 22
    Senderos = 23
    Flamini = 24
    Van Persie = 24
    Adebayor = 24
    Eboue = 24

    The Arsenal team still has a lot of growing to do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    As a side note, the United squads and the Arsenal squads are roughly the same age.

    I don't think entertainment is talking crap to get a rise. I've said it before, but if Dunphy was on this forum, I've no doubt he'd be a laughing stock and probably banned for trolling.

    He is just a professional troll, saying things to get a rise. We don't accept it on internet message boards, cause we all realise its stupid, yet we're willing to accept this as the standard on our national broadcasters?

    Souness I think has really come along as a commentator, may be my favorite now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    The "ah no!" was just a reaction to what he thought was a poor decision by the ref.

    I generally think Giles is one of the more unbiased pundits/commentators.

    Souness clearly loves working there though as you can see anytime he's on sky he minds his tongue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,418 ✭✭✭JimiTime


    PHB wrote: »
    As a side note, the United squads and the Arsenal squads are roughly the same age.

    I don't think entertainment is talking crap to get a rise. I've said it before, but if Dunphy was on this forum, I've no doubt he'd be a laughing stock and probably banned for trolling.

    He is just a professional troll, saying things to get a rise. We don't accept it on internet message boards, cause we all realise its stupid, yet we're willing to accept this as the standard on our national broadcasters?

    Souness I think has really come along as a commentator, may be my favorite now.

    I seriously hope your opinion is in the minority. I'd hate to see the RTE punditry turn into Sky or BBC like. You have Giles, Souness and Brady for proper analysis. Dunphy's there so its not 'Lineker and friends'. Even Brady has his moments, he's a bit of a whinger. Throw him and Dunphy together, and theres chemistry. Neither are afraid to speak their mind in front of the Camera's. Great TV, long may it live!! Brady's had his pops at dunphy in the past also remember.


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


    The "ah no!" was just a reaction to what he thought was a poor decision by the ref.

    I generally think Giles is one of the more unbiased pundits/commentators.

    Souness clearly loves working there though as you can see anytime he's on sky he minds his tongue.

    I wonder how P'd off Houghton was not to get the Liverpool match last night?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    I generally think Giles is one of the more unbiased pundits/commentators.
    That's because he generally doesn't know who anybody is.


    I agree with the sentiments about Souness. I think he really enjoys the fact that he's not restricted in what he can and can't say, which has always been RTE's trump card compared to other stations.


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