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Eamon Dunphy On Spurs midfield

mawspurs

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Jun 29, 2003
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Eamon Dunphy believes Tottenham will end Arsenal's hopes of a Top Four finish at Wembley tomorrow.

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Armstrong_11

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Aug 3, 2011
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Midfielders... especially defensive ones... never ever get the recognition they deserve.

We out played Liverpool in the 2nd half... we bosses the game against United because of the hard work of Dier and Dembele. If u only watch highlights... u won't see what happens during the other 80% of the game. It isn't just forwards creating a goal and defenders putting in saving tackles... it's the grunt work that goes unnoticed in midfield.
 

guiltyparty

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Sep 21, 2005
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Who is Eamonn Dunphy?

Literally just had to look him up.

Seems like he’s a long term Irish pundit, capped for the Republic in the 70s, who’s been dining out in the Irish media on being a Man Utd apprentice for 40 years

His greatest accolade was narrowly missing promotion with Millwall

So, y’know, he’d know :cautious:
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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Dunphy has a very annoying, gravelly and grating voice
which is surprising as most of the time he talks out of his arse

He always squeezes in mentions of Spurs having to sell
on their best players like Hary Kane to Madrid.

And his false teeth are too big for his skull.
 

Sweetsman

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Jan 30, 2011
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Dunphy has a very annoying, gravelly and grating voice
which is surprising as most of the time he talks out of his arse

He always squeezes in mentions of Spurs having to sell
on their best players like Hary Kane to Madrid.

And his false teeth are too big for his skull.
I'm visualising a comedy horse, even though I have seen him before. He's a contrarian. Dier seems to be like "Four Seasons in One Day" with his play, and Dunphy is correct about his play at Anfield, but that was in the first half when some of our players seem to freeze. I think the problem was the manager's instructions to play out of the back, but I'm guessing that it was to reduce the time Liverpool had the ball.
 

Kilkenny Cat

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To anyone here not familiar with Eamon Dunphy: please ignore him.

Having said that, his book about his time as a jobbing midfielder with Millwall in the early 1970s - Only A Game? - is required reading. A classic.
 

Col_M

Pointing out the Obvious
Feb 28, 2012
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Save yourselves the trouble. He’s been on the juice.
 

Pellshek

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Dunphy is erratic in his opinions, but he wrote one of the truly seminal football memoirs - "Only a Game" in 1976.

It was the first of those insider accounts of being a shit journeyman playing in the lower leagues. That kind of book is fairly common nowadays, but it was revolutionary when he wrote it in 1976. At that time football books were either about glorious careers, or they were hagiographic, which is to say just glossy puff jobs praising galactico players and careers. To write a book about being useless and just kicking around in the mud of the lower leagues was not the done thing.

The book followed Millwall during a humdrum season of failure in Division 2. Was Brian Glanville's favourite football book.
 
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