Graeme Souness has opened up on the Ireland players who left the biggest impression on him throughout his career in football. Speaking ahead of the Premier League’s return this week, the former Liverpool captain singled out two former Irish international teammates as having left an impact on him. Souness also put John Giles, Irish footballing legend, in a bracket alongside …
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The sporting lockdown has all of us thinking about some of the best players and teams to play the beautiful game. It’s a time for reminiscing and there’s a lot of comfort to be found in looking back at various legendary teams across all sports. On Eamon Dunphy’s Podcast, The Stand, the Irish broadcaster was joined by his fellow former …
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The iconic trio of Eamon Dunphy, John Giles and Liam Brady will return to our television screens this Christmas period for coverage of the Premier League. The famed pundits are expected to feature on Premier Sports for a five-game stint beginning next week, according to the Irish Independent. Dunphy, Giles and Brady first began working together in RTÉ in 1998 …
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Roy Keane is a better fit than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to be the Manchester United manager, according to John Giles. The Republic of Ireland and Leeds United legend has claimed that Keane would do a better job than his old teammate given the current conditions at Old Trafford and what the club needs to change their fortunes. Giles reckons that …
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Roy Keane faces calls for him to be sacked as assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland by arguably the country’s two most respected former players, Johnny Giles and Liam Brady. The fiery Keane – who infamously was sent home from Ireland’s pre-2002 World Cup training camp following a tirade of abuse aimed at then-manager Mick McCarthy in front of …
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John Giles has slammed Martin O'Neill in the aftermath of the Stoke fiasco and his ongoing row with RTÉ reporter Tony O'Donoghue.
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Robbie Savage’s recent criticism of RTÉ’s Eamon Dunphy, his claims that Martin O’Neill’s Republic of Ireland side can be labelled overachievers if they even finish third in their 2018 World Cup Qualification group, and his suggestion that only one current Irish player – the recovering Seamus Coleman – is good enough to fit into the Welsh team have obviously drawn the ire …
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Ireland’s recent World Cup qualifier seems to have devoted as much attention to the managers’ media comments than the actual game itself, and now the legendary punditry duo Eamon Dunphy and John Giles have given their take. Seamus Coleman’s broken leg aside, the biggest talking points to come from that match at the Aviva were in relation to Roy Keane’s …
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Former Republic of Ireland manager John Giles is in no doubt as to how he’d line the side up against Wales on Friday evening. Martin O’Neill’s side take on the Welsh in a massive World Cup qualifier in a match that could have a huge bearing on both sides’ hopes of progressing to the finals in Russia next year. Speaking …
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With just one win in their last ten games, Liverpool’s season has hit the skids somewhat. Their promising 2016 form has given way to a horrendous run in 2017 that has seen them exit both cup competitions and drop out of the Premier League top four. Last weekend’s 2-0 defeat to Hull City was yet another low point for Jurgen …
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With the domestic transfer window well and truly underway, Pundit Arena continues its look back at some moves that sent shockwaves throughout the League of Ireland. In this, the third of a four-part series, Niall Newberry tells the story of how a German World Cup legend was ‘tricked’ into playing a match for Cork Celtic and of a superstar who arrived at Shamrock …
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Dan O’Mahony remembers the iconic Irish football publication, Anything But Balls. Anything But Balls is a football book from the 90s…. actually it’s a fairly insubstantial publication that might be better described as a booklet and most copies would have ended up in landfill years ago. However, we at Pundit Arena have gotten our mitts on one of the few …
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Last night Ireland drew with World Cup Champions, Germany. Away from home. A team ranked 62nd in the world held the team ranked 1st. Take a deep breath, smile and let that sink in. This morning’s papers, forums and water cooler conversations (do those still happen?), should be brimming with joy at last night’s heroics. Instead, we’re left talking once …
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“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu In our last article we looked at the highs of the Northern Ireland 1958 World Cup campaign in Sweden. But such success wasn’t just confined to the North. The Republic was also improving as a team and there was a sense of optimism …
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This week’s Throwback Thursday looks back at the first Irish team to make it to the group stages of a major European competition, Shamrock Rovers. In a time before every player who showed potential was whisked off to the UK, Ireland’s most successful team, Shamrock Rovers, had some of Ireland’s finest players representing them – Jimmy Dunne, Johnny Giles, Eamonn …
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As the curtain comes down on an exceptional World Cup tournament, we decided to look back at the Best XI to never win a World Cup. Would this side challenge for top honours? Goalkeeper – Ray Clemence – England Clemence was one of the best players ever to put himself between the sticks for Liverpool and Tottenham. He played a combined …
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Conor Hayes lambastes the RTÉ panel for their apparent lack of preparation for this year’s World Cup. Eamon Dunphy stared down the lens of the camera and apologised. It was standard fare for when a bad word is uttered on television before the watershed, no one is actually offended but the apology is necessary lest people be upset by the …
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