SHELBOURNE”S SEAN GANNON earned the praise of Shane Keegan, David Sneyd and Gavin Cooney on the latest episode of The Football Family, the podcast for subscribers to The 42.
“I genuinely feel his career doesn’t get the credit it deserves. He’ll retire as the most decorated League of Ireland player of all time,” Keegan said.
“He would have been at Dundalk when I was there and I swear to God, if you did a presentation on the opposition for two hours straight, at the end of the presentation Sean would come up to you with additional questions.
“The man overthinks things. No matter what, he would come down to me at the end, and so politely and so genuinely say: ‘Shane, that was really good, but I was just wondering about you not mentioning this or that.’ He’d have some sort of additional question about a piece of information that I hadn’t given.
“I used to love that because within my role that was great. An awful lot of players wouldn’t have been listening to a word I’d have been saying! But he’s listening to everything and still wants more info. He’s the sort of fella that I can definitely see going down the coaching route.”
“You know how he ended up signing for Shels don’t you?” Sneyd said. “He was walking his dog out near Tolka Park one day and bumped into Damien Duff. Obviously, Duffer is a dog lover and so they got chatting. Duff said: ‘There’s a chance you could be leaving Rovers, is that true?’ And apparently it was. Now, I don’t think the deal was done there and then but that’s pretty much how it was sorted.”
Cooney added: “If Gannon and Shels go on to win the league, is that Irish football’s most consequential dog walk since Roy took Triggs out after Saipan? Have we had many more important dog walks?
“He’s had a brilliant season,” Keegan said.
“He was named in Chris Forester’s, Michael Duffy’s and Daryll Horgan’s PFAI teams. Two of the lads there have come up directly against him in terms of playing in the same area of the field and they both picked him. It shows what a season he is having.
“He’s one of these lads who is basically Gary Neville, an out and out right back. When he has to play right of a back three it doesn’t suit him as much and when he has to play right wing-back it doesn’t suit him as much. He’s just rock solid as an out and out right full,” Keegan added.
Great game of football. Unfortunate mistake by Patton but what a joy to watch Murphy. This Dublin team will go down as the greatest ever and so could Murphy
@Shaun Gallagher: Murphy nowhere near greatest ever. Laughable.
@Jack Ronan: didn’t think it was funny but suppose everyone is different
Joe Brolly some dose, rte don’t make many good decisions but shafting him was spot on
@Ronny Phelan: he’s a joke, he’s become a Dublin fanatic rather than an analyst for the game. Donegal lead for 60 mins, they pegged back a 3 point deficit to a single score before the fulltime whistle went. If it went another 3 mins either side could have won it or end on a draw. Brollys acts as if we watched a Liverpool 5 nil trashing of city. Yes Dublin are good, yes they did 5 in a row, but bloody well analyse the game that was there. If monaghan beat mayo tomorrow their last 5 years performances won’t be mentioned.
@RJ: Yeah because they didnt win the last 5 all irelands and are a bunch of bottlers
@RJ: Why would anyone mention Monaghans last five years ?
Good game could have gone either way. Again time keeping inconsistencies, game stopped for nearly 2 and a half minutes for the Murphy Small sending off yet only an extra minute played.
@Gareth Keenan: refs can’t win when it comes to this.dubs cute out when the chips are down, you have to hand it to them.
@Fr Romeo sensini.: yeah definitely the GOAT.
@Fr Romeo sensini.: Refs can’t win? It’s a Flipping clock. Not a discretionary process. What a senseless comment. Over 2 mins stopped = 2 mins at least added. But I guess there was no need, Dublin had the lead
@RJ: you try doing it and dealing with 10 to 15 lads wrestling with each other at the same time.
John Small is some pantomime villain.
@Robb Stark: Oh no he isn’t
More cynical play to get Murphy sent off.
@raymond flynn: Murphy is no angel but Small is always at it.
@raymond flynn: didn’t see too many of the yahoo’s in blue running in to fight ter this evening!! But few weeks back they wer very tough trying too beat a few young Kerry players!!!
@raymond flynn: Murphy is well able to get himself sent off
@Yusufmc: grow up.
@Yusufmc: are you drunk?
@GrumpyAulFella: wish I was watching that throw ball! Thx god for hurling!!!
@Phil O Stine: what did he do to get himself sent off.
@Brian: watch the game
@Phil O Stine: he got man of the match. I guess you are 1 of those blinkered bitter supporters.
@Brian: he should have been sent off in first few minutes . He went in on Davy Byrne with his elbow. Do you are right the refs can’t do the job
To be fair the second yellow card John small received should have been a red card
@Conor Brick: To be fair, you’re talking shyte, Murphy started the handbags and dragged him to the ground. What’s he meant to do?
@Ciarán: To be fair the first yellow Murphy received should have been red
@Conor Brick: Every second yellow is a red bud ….
I suppose the refs are playing to the letter of the law but between the club final and these few league games, congress could be looking at bringing in a ladies football or rugby style clock to reduce the amount of injury time