David O'Leary
speaker
967 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 14 May
David O'Leary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Listen, someone's always giving you advice about go here, but when David... Gary, that's exactly what he was.
He was solid.
Didn't want any publicity.
Do you know what?
You drive along now on the couch and you look behind now
and you think the couch is empty.
You look around, but it's not.
Everybody's on their headphones.
You know, you're coming back on the plane from a game last week or so, and everybody sits there on their seat, headphones, laptop, pictures.
It's interesting that even though you obviously had a bad experience with him, there's still that element of respect and sort of the fact that... Do you know, Gary, I think I'd have got back in earlier than three years, but it became such a national issue over there for every squad that in the end where kind of Jack let himself go and we had a good young lad, a fella called Pat Scully that came from Dublin and he was playing in the reserves.
He was never going to make it, and he was always going to go back and play in Ireland.
But the Irish squad got so decimated that, and I was probably playing the best football in my life, Arsenal were delighted that I was out of the squad because I wasn't getting picked that way.
I was probably having the best run of my career, probably.
And Jack picked into his squad and he picked Pat Scully, and that caused even a bigger issue, that he wasn't even near the Arsenal team.
that people realised and it got very personal in that way.
The best thing I did was not say anything and I think when I got picked, I got picked, we were playing up in Newcastle, got back to London that night after the playing journey back and a secretary of the FEI rang me up and said, can you be in Manchester on this Sunday?
You're picked.
I had to get my boots off the Arsenal all night, got up to Manchester.
Jack didn't ring me.
After three years?
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