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Posted by Mark on October 13, 2009, 10:22 am, in reply to "Re: RTE panel tonight"
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The most memorable short backpass from that time was Steve Heighway against Bulgaria in Sofia when Ireland lost 2-1, 1976 I think. Don't ever remember Giles messing up like that though.
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: Himself and Giles came back from England in 77
: and went about trying to set up an academy
: with Rovers that could compete with English
: and European clubs.To be fair, they were
: left dealing with parish pump type wnkers
: who run the game over here and they packed
: it in at the end of the season.
: Dunphy slinked off into journalism,and when
: Jack Charlton came along Dunphy made his
: name simply be picking on the cruder aspects
: of Charltonīs game plan. As for Giles, he
: was always a critic but usually articulate.
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: However maybe Dermot or Dubtone can confirm
: this. Itīs something that NEVER gets talked
: about but an older work colleague assures me
: it happened.
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: Apparently in an important world cup game
: (might have been France) Giles gave a short
: back pass and the opposition nipped in and
: scored. Ireland lost the game and failed to
: qualify, mainly due to this. Can anybody
: shed any light?
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: Dunphy only ever played for, with the
: greatestrespect, millwall and reading so im
: kinda wondering how he became a soccer
: "expert"
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: I recall his playing for Rovers when his Bro
: in law gave him a game. The spindly little
: coward was a stick insect in a hooped shirt
: and beyond useless, he spent more time
: running away from the ball than anything
: else. He got dogs abuse at glenmalure,
: except for this one day when he was smacked
: straight in the face by the ball and the
: little bollix suddenly started getting stuck
: in (not an unknown response as I remember
: Ian 'Mary' Wilson doing the same at
: Goodison).
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: Great piece in the Irish Times today by
: Brian O'Connor recalling how Dunphy abused
: Liam Brady for being arrogant even in his
: running style ....... Brady one of our most
: skilful players ever was lambasted by the
: talentless runt that is Dunphy and today we
: have the same shithead telling us that Andy
: Reid is the cure to all our ills ....... 'as
: if Andy Reid is the new Messi or what' FFS
: only the dumbest of the dumb would listen to
: the cnut but then again, there must be loads
: out there as Dermot says.
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