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Eamon Dunphy

(1945) Association Football Player Ireland

23 quotes in 112 categories

Eamon Dunphy is an association football player from Ireland, best known for Only a Game?.

Quick Facts About Eamon Dunphy

Born: August 3, 1945
Nationality: Ireland
Profession: Association Football Player
Notable works: Only a Game?

About Eamon Dunphy

Eamon Martin Dunphy is an Irish media personality, journalist, broadcaster, author, sports pundit and former professional footballer. He grew up playing football for several youth teams including Stella Maris. Since retiring from the sport, he has become recognisable to Irish television audiences as a football analyst during coverage of the Premier League, UEFA Champions League and international football on RTÉ.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Eamon Dunphy

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Bills

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Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

Ability

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Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

Chairman

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I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

Alive

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Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat.

Bottles

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Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism.…

Bills

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If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

Class

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I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.

Division

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Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football.…

Disgrace

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Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient…

Ancient

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You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

Dictatorship

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Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Ends

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They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

Bills

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Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

Creeps

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They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never…

Cartoon

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

Inspirational

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Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

Bottles

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That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!

Arses

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Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Beaten

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Found out. A nothing player.

Found

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He's one of the biggest whingers in world football... he's a bloody eejit.

Bloody

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That's the first time I've seen sex between two men on the BBC.

First time

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“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is…

Character

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