RIP Philip Green

gernon

The legendary Philip Green of RTE has passed away, I'm sure all LOI fans of a certain age (e.g over 45) have memories of listening to his commentaries and probably thinking he was biased against your team.:)

Condolences to his family.

S.R.F.C.

Top, top man and true hoop, RIP.

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CrowdedHouse

RIP Philip

I seem to recall my schoolboy years listening to Philips commentaries on Ireland away matches. Live telly was scarce in the '70s but you always had Philip and medium wave radio.
Is it just me or were we always playing in Moscow or Poland

eagle eye

RIP Phillip, he was a great commentator on radio doing the League of Ireland games.

I remember when we were kids listening to Shamrock Rovers vs Finn Harps and he came out with the line 'Paul McGee seems to be carrying an injured calf' and my little cousin thought that meant he was actually carrying around a baby cow and we all laughed. I'd guess I listened to the man commentating on maybe 150 matches on the radio over the years. Back in the days when there was very little football on tv and basically anytime we weren't at a game or there was a game on at a different time.

This is a sad, sad day. Up there with Jimmy McGee as a legend of Irish sports broadcasting.

Zebra3

RIP.

Brings back memories of listening to the radio when ball was played on Sundays and you couldn't make the away.

K-9

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

RIP Philip

I seem to recall my schoolboy years listening to Philips commentaries on Ireland away matches. Live telly was scarce in the '70s but you always had Philip and medium wave radio.
Is it just me or were we always playing in Moscow or Poland

We had Russia in our group a couple of times in the Iron Curtain days.

RIP, true legend of commentary, up there with O'Muthertaigh as just something you associate with the radio and Sundays in the 80's.

dfx-

Rovers are leading 0-0

RIP

grenache

I'm a few years too young to remember him, but i've seen plenty of interviews with him and he did have the perfect voice for radio. My dad never took to him as in his own words he was "constantly salivating over Rovers".

RIP Phillip.

OhNoYouDidn't

dfx- wrote: »

Rovers are leading 0-0

RIP

"Fcuk it, Bohs have scored"

RIP. Legend.

Fr Tod Umptious

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

"Fcuk it, Bohs have scored"

RIP. Legend.

That was the first thing that popped into my mind when I heard he died.

Did he really say that or was it an urban legend ?

Like others is remember him on radio on Sunday afternoons and remember that he was always biased towards SR

RIP

Dean820

I thought Robert Green was dead for a second when I saw the title of this thread.

OhNoYouDidn't

Dean820 wrote: »

I thought Robert Green was dead for a second when I saw the title of this thread.

Did you really need to go onto an RIP thread to tell the world you can't read?

CrowdedHouse

Another yarn/urban legend I recall hearing many years ago about Philip Greene:

Jimmy McGee(in studio) 'And now over to Flower Lodge and Philip Greene..well Philip any goals in Flower Lodge?

Philip: 'Yes Jimmy - two goals but no score..'........:D

fryup

RIP Philip

remember listening to one of his commentaries back in the 80s..it was a ROI match and stapleton scored...and philip's reaction WHAT A GOAL ! WHAT A GOAL !!!!

couldn't wait to see it on TV that night...and it was the most flukey poxsy goal ever:)

OhNoYouDidn't

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

That was the first thing that popped into my mind when I heard he died.

Did he really say that or was it an urban legend ?

Like others is remember him on radio on Sunday afternoons and remember that he was always biased towards SR

RIP

He did.

He was an atrociously biased commentator. "Its one all to Rovers..."

Lovely fellah too. Won a lifetime achievement gong at the Rovers POTY last year. He was presented with his gong in the nursing home he was in. Not a well man, but you could see the sparkle in his eye telling stories for the camera.

losthorizon

I only found out today that Philp Greene and White died. RIP. Although he loved Shamrock Rovers (I'm a Cork City fan) he was an excellent commentator. I read in the paper today that a priest admitted to him that he listened to one of his commentaries with an earpiece and transistor radio while at the same time hearing a confession!

Apparently in 1955 he also refused to commentate on a match versus Yugoslavia for political reasons.


I got into LOI football in the 1980s and was lucky enough to witness a truely great Shamrock Rovers team of that period. The football they played was amazing. By far they were the best Irish club team I have ever seen. If they had the money to go full time who knows what they might have done.

I actually feel quite sad tapping this out. First it was the terrible news about about Garret Fitzgerald and now Philip Greene.