The Eamonn Dunphy Appreciation Thread

rossie1977 wrote: »

dunphy is an idiot, if i wanted to watch comedy i would buy a ticket to see tommy tiernan.

tbh I wouldnt be too fond of Dunphy if his routine consisted of screaming and walking around the studio pulling angry neurotic me against the world faces/body movements.

Much like his idol Roy, Dunphy is a rebel, a class act and stands up to bullies. A true modern Irish media outlaw in the Michael O'Leary mould, he says what he likes (often while pissed drunk) and couldnt give a **** what anyone thinks. Dont always agree with his opinions and he flip flops like nobody else, but it is part of the package BBC/ITV punditry is so lame, all nice, cosy, agreeable. RTE punditry is a warzone where lifelong friends temporarily fall out.

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

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

"We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer!"

"Fat and a clown. A fat clown for all to see." regarding Harry Kewell

"You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers." Odd that the Iraqi team never made the finals given Saddams sons unique style of football management

"A decision like that, he must be on acid...(pause)...LSD Bill!!!" on a sub decision of Rafas

After a match ran over time , and the post match had to be rushed to catch up with the scheduling

Bill "Eamon, Im afraid we will have to leave it there, the Desperate Housewives are waiting"
Eamo (grin on face) "Ill be up in a minute ladies!"


And lets not forget how he only narrowly held his tongue when Bill referred to two German defenders getting battered by the muslim (by birth at least) Turkish team as the Twin Towers :pac:

Dunphy drunkenly perving over Miriam O'Callaghan, laughing like a little kid during Giles karaoke bit and then getting up and singing a few himself, I quite litreally was crying laughing and my ribs were hurting watching it all. Unbelieveable

Ah he may be a bit of a prick of times, but you got to admit, even you dumphy haters out there... He's a funny bastard. I want more one liners Anyone got anymore?

Highsider wrote: »

Eamo is an idiot. How anyone can find his "punditry" funny is beyond me. His football knowledge is about as good as a five year olds.

"children, it's not nice to stare... even if that man does look like a troll"

Beckett Kind Eve wrote: »

"children, it's not nice to stare... even if that man does look like a troll"

What's a troll?

...I just find he's a total idiot. No knowledge of the game on the continent, selective criticism of players he just (for whatever reason) doesn't like and selective defense of those he deems decent invdividuals, regardless of whether they're any good or not. Yet when criticizing he'll nit-pick to find something about their game he doesn't like or he believes they're usless at. He contradicts himself time and again.

He can't pronounce names to save his life. OK not very important but surely if you're to know about something and the people involved you at least get their names right. Even last night when he was trying to pronounce 'Vallodolid', it was embarrassing.

And as well as another poster mentioned, him saying Ireland have better players than Inter!

Having said that I still kinda like him and I love watching him! He's so funny!

Dunphy is great entertainment, but I wouldn't agree with some people that he's a football expert! It's good having Souness on the show with some knowledge of modern management. Like when giles and dunphy do their usual rant "He's not tracking back bill, you got to get the basics right". Souness was able to say that fergie doesn't want strikers tracking back, he wants them in the box and to save energy so they can make runs late in the game. But dunphy and giles just ignore it!
Also, this season in the Champions League, Chelsea were (according to dunphy) miles ahead of anyone because they had a good result! Then next week Man-u had a good one and it was "Chelsea AND Man-u are miles ahead of anyone". Then a couple of weeks later man-u have a bad performance "they're no good bill, they lack a leader". Ehhh, they're european and premiership champions eamonn!
It's funny that giles thinks that Eamonn is an expert on Spanish Football, just cos eamonn watches the odd La Liga game on Sky Sports. "Valencia are the team to beat bill, their so good that Aimar can't even get into the team" - That's because Aimar now plays with Zaragoza Eamonn!
Any time man-u play bad he thinks fergie has "lost it" and still brings up the signings of Kleberson and Djemba Djemba!

Xavi6 wrote: »

And who could forget the hilarious and horribly libelous claims directed towards Rod Liddle - "That's the fella who ran off and left his wife for a young one!"

And dunphy repeated his hatred for Rod Liddle on the Gerry Ryan show the next morning. But then he was on another radio show about an hour later, and Rod Liddle was on too, and Dunphy licked his ass so much it was embarrassing! (Sorry for the mental image!)