Dion Fanning
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888 appearances
15 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Dion Fanning’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's like, I don't care how cynical we become.
I don't care how even, when you look into Leo Messi's life even, you just sort of like, you know, he's not like, outside of football, not that impressive a person.
But it's just like, there is something about Messi
seeing the goat and the time of his lifespan being elongated into yet another World Cup here.
It just got me going today, I have to say.
And it's so just great to still be so excited by it as well.
Like, you know, it's like, I don't know, maybe when he's gone, we will start to...
We'll find whoever it is that's next.
And maybe it's going to be like a 31-year-old Kylian Mbappe or something in the next World Cup.
But at the same time, while Messi is still there and while he's still relevant and he's doing things like this and he's not a shadow of himself, even though physically or in terms of his speed or whatever he might be, but what he can still do with the ball.
It's just, I don't know, I just don't think we can possibly move on from it.
I think, like, the most excited I think I was before the World Cup in any way was, I think Ben sent me, like, the highlights of his cameo when he came off the bench after 70 minutes against Iceland.
And it was just this, oh, my God, Messi is still Messi.
You know, and I was like, oh, my God, I can't wait for this now.
Now, I think the most remarkable thing about the Ireland-Egypt game is that we've had, as a very quick maths there, I think 13 games in World Cup history.
And I guarantee we're the only country in the world that of our 13 games, one of them is more remembered for a pundit.
than what he did than anything that happened on the pitch now in fairness probably because nothing happened on the pitch but uh I was looking at some of this today and there's some unbelievable like Eamon Dunphy the whole we'll get to it in a few minutes but the whole like what he did after the match and the rant and the cha like is very very famous and rightly so but there's so much more to it like we've actually dug out some stuff from um half time in the game here he is reflecting on the first half and what uh
would end up being the nil-all draw with it.
And the Egyptian side, let's just say Eamonn didn't rate too highly.
Right, I suppose the most memorable moment of all, and this is the one that we all know, but I do think we should hear it after the full-time nil-all draw, pathetic nil-all draw, was confirmed.
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