I thought Murph's book was excellent
Has anyone read The Grass Ceiling? Might give it a go.
Yeah I read it and thought it was only okay, a bit like Martin O'Neill's book. It was funny listening to Dunphy on his podcast describing it as 'one of the best sports books ever written'!
The venue was absolutely terrible alright, just about everything that could make a venue bad was covered.
I found Sam very disappointing as a guest to be honest, very uninspiring and low-effort as if he was just phoning it in. It created an awkward atmosphere and drained the energy from the room.
Enjoyed Brian Kerr and the boxer they had on.
Does it have an index? 😀
They really sold Eimear's book, probably will give it a read.
Carl Frampton's seems to have golden cleric vibes, it was the only book they were negative about though.
I skipped through the Big Sam interview because listening to it fully would be like being stuck with the world’s most obnoxious taxi driver for 45 minutes - but from what I did hear it didn’t seem that the crowd was as negative towards him as I had been led to expect both from here and Monday’s pod. It seemed that people were more bored than angry.
Need to get Dunphy on the telly again for a once off special to shoot this down, with the glasses on so we know he's serious.
I don't understand your question sorry?
Anyone have a timestamp for the racism?
It’s pretty rich that big Sam is getting labelled a racist for thinking almost all club owners not being English is a problem or strange. I guess the German clubs or Barcelona or Bohs are all racist too for relying on a member ship model rather than being owned by a hedge fund or being a sport washing project.
Nice selective memory there in order to bend the truth to suit your argument 👍
It's more the way he says it. Almost spitting out the word 'foreigners'
He came across as lazy and arrogant and I thought Ken and Eoin could have challenged him more about English managers not getting a job. English managers don’t get many jobs because when they do they are often terrible; Gerrard & Lampard.
Potter and o’Neill were promoted quite quickly when they showed promise. Ryan Mason was given a chance.
Sam has no real reason to feel aggrieved about his own treatment. Yet he clearly does.
but labeling him racist is OTT.
Second Captains often make reference to the time that Eamon Dunphy reviewed Joe Schmidt's autobiography and criticised it because it didn't have an index
I didn't call him racist. I said he came across a little racist. That's quite different.
Slightly xenophobic might be a better term.
If someone called me quite racist or racist I wouldnt like either much at all personally. The quite wouldn’t mean much
I don't really care if i annoyed Big Sam or not. It doesn't keep me up at night.
You said it was OTT to call him racist. I didn't call him racist.
Didn't pick up the negativity from the crowd that they referenced in the Podcast on Monday , he just came across bitter and somewhat ignorant, which is no surprise as that's how he usually comes across.
The bit about Limerick was kinda interesting but was a fairly dull interview overall.
The egomaniacs bit was good though.
There were boos at the end.
I wasn't at the show and haven't listened to the recording of Big Sam yet. But I would think bitter, ignorant and a little bit racist would sum him up perfectly. Worth the gamble as a guest, probably should have given him a pint of wine to loosen him up.
Did you mean to say he was only being temporarily racist or something?
I'm not arguing semantics.
I thought Big Sam was an alright interview, passed the time in the car (better than listening to richie sadlier, now he's boring and overwrought). I'd agree he was definitely bitter and tad xenophobic, more than racist (isn't there a difference?!).
Didn't get to the National Stadium for the live show, so as I was listening yesterday I was willing Big Sam to channel even more of his inner David Brent and say 'Stitch up!' when they asked him about the English job. I've successfully avoided longer exposure to Big Sam down through the years, but I have to say I was underwhelmed and disappointed listening to him. I always thought there might be a kernel of substance to the 'Sam Allardici' narrative that he was a deep thinker about the game, one of the early adopters of sports science etc...but Jesus he came across as a fairly one-note character, and an unimpressive one at that.
I actually thought there was an air of piss taking/winding up by the lads while interviewing him.
In fairness to the lads, they did push Sam a bit on his "tippy tappy" comments. There's only so much pushing or grilling you can do on a live show, or else it'll completely kill the mood. They also addressed the foreigner comments on yesterdays show at least, they're aware it wasn't an absolute success of a guest. I wasn't at the show, but when I saw they announced they him as the guest I was very surprised and would've been disappointed personally.
Jaysus, I haven't cringed that long in a while, at Malachy's review of Murph's book. Spent about 10 minutes saying how he didn't want his book to be just alright....and then proceeded to waffle on about how the book was....just aright (without actually saying those exact words). It certainly wasn't a glowing review. I do appreciate the honesty, it was just hard to listen to. I wonder should they have just reviewed his book, but left it out of the BOTY nominations.
He spent a lot of time talking about Murph's book without really saying anything constructful. He was saying he liked it but also gave the impression he thought it was just fine.
Then at the end he said how The Grass Ceiling was country miles ahead of the other books.
you won’t regret reading it or throw it in the fire but there are better books out there is basically what he’s saying.
The only book that Ill be getting is the Eamon Carr boxing one, surprised it got such little airtime given how good they felt it was.
