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Dunphy: El Tel Is A Bitter Little Man
Topic Started: Mar 17 2008, 03:55 PM (446 Views)
flak
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daddymac
Mar 18 2008, 01:14 AM
He has been critical of the FAI and the way they have run Irish football,remember until Keano walked out of the World Cup and Dunphy went off the rails in the irish press at them,players were flying to matches in economy class while the FAI heads were flying 1st class, they were taking huge sums of money that should have been going to grassroots football over here and giving themselves huge bonuses, they were refusing to hire dieticians and were often buying the players fish and chips as meals before matches, they were hiring the cheapest and worst training grounds that they could(the reason Keano went nuts in Saipan in the 1st place) Dunphy was one of the only journalists to actually go against them as the press over here was very friendly with the fai.

Are you saying that Dunphy is the reason that all of this changed? I doubt the bigwigs at the Irish FA couldn't give a monkeys about a drunk opinionated journalist. <_<
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Monty
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Well we havent qualified for a tournament since so we wouldnt know :rofl:
But what journalist say do sometimes have an effect.
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flak
Mar 18 2008, 01:54 PM
daddymac
Mar 18 2008, 01:14 AM
He has been critical of the FAI and the way they have run Irish football,remember until Keano walked out of the World Cup and Dunphy went off the rails in the irish press at them,players were flying to matches in economy class while the FAI heads were flying 1st class, they were taking huge sums of money that should have been going to grassroots football over here and giving themselves huge bonuses, they were refusing to hire dieticians and were often buying the players fish and chips as meals before matches, they were hiring the cheapest and worst training grounds that they could(the reason Keano went nuts in Saipan in the 1st place)    Dunphy was one of the only journalists to actually go against them as the press over here was very friendly with the fai.

Are you saying that Dunphy is the reason that all of this changed? I doubt the bigwigs at the Irish FA couldn't give a monkeys about a drunk opinionated journalist. <_<

No i don't think he was directly responsible for it,that was more down to the Keane/Saipan disaster but up very few journalists in Ireland gave the FAI a hard time for the way they acted,like him or not but he has used his position/fame to do alot of good. He is a drunk cokehead and probably a complete git but he does speak alot of sense on occasion
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