He took a flat in the city and set about researching the book. The one didn’t cause the other or anything but it was, on the whole, no harm to have something new to throw himself into after Italia ’90 and all that. So it was that, in the autumn of 1990, just after he had become the country’s most notorious television pundit, Dunphy left Dublin to live in Manchester for six months. And it’s not often you can say that about anything you do.”
“But that book, it’s the one occasion that I have always been able to look back and go, ‘Yeah, that’s as good as it could be.’ It’s a piece of work that I’m very, very pleased with. Photograph: Charman & Ley/Mirrorpix/Getty Images Manchester United manager Matt Busby at Wembley Stadium after Manchester United’s FA Cup Final defeat to Aston Villa on May 4th, 1957.
And we all know that we’ve put out plenty of stuff over the years that didn’t work or that was only okay or wasn’t great. When you write for long enough, you know in your bones what’s good and what isn’t. “You never think that anything you’ve done is as good as it should have been or could have been. And though he is gratified at the interest, he can't resist a dig at himself all the same. The Irish Times is calling to talk about A Strange Kind of Glory, his 1991 book on Matt Busby, Manchester United and so much more. Resolutely himself, with all the good and bad that implies. But he's as full of mischief and contradictions as ever he was. First one will be done at 12.05 – can you call back at 12.10? Grand, talk to you then.ĭunphy will be 76 in August and has left the house only a handful of times since last March. Two podcasts to record tomorrow, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. Eamon Dunphy answers the phone mid-conversation.
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