"I don't trust the other teams to maintain the pressure on Rovers" | Barry Murphy: The Dublin DERBY, Gary O'Neill's recovery, Remembering Alex Manninger | OFF THE BALL BREAKFAST
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Before we get into the games for League of Ireland... Barry, we had the tragic news yesterday of the passing of Alex Manninger. We talked about it briefly earlier in the show. And I think for certain sections even of our live YouTube audience that people have vivid memories of Manninger at the end of that 97-98 season when Arsenal won the double and he was a pivotal part of it. I don't know, did he have any sort of bearing or influence on yourself at that point? Because...
I remember a little bit of him you know yeah I would have been obviously a Man United fan so I'd be more looking at kind of Schmeichel at the time but I remember how good he was in that team he was incredible and some of the moves he got went to Juve after it then to Salzburg and you look at he was at Liverpool as well at 40 in that kind of I know it's 2016 yeah so
he obviously had a massive influence and those people in those positions are characters they're the people you want on your team so he obviously had that as well in the Jurgen Klopp side so terribly sad news shocking I wonder how difficult that is to fulfil that role of standing goalkeeper for a lot of your career because when you hear the news the first thing that a lot of people thought of that remember Manninger was that 97-98 he got that run for himself was he tempted to make a move then at the end of that season to get first team football but he stayed at Arsenal until 2002 So it's a very specific role, quite a lonely position I'd say you have to fill as a goalkeeper that wants to play but doesn't play but is still at a big club.
Yeah, it's kind of like, was it Steve Clarke up at Newcastle? He was the number two to Che Gibbon. Steve Harper. He was the head of him too.
When Harper was back, you couldn't tell who was who.
Same shape and everything, but he knew that role and he probably could have got a move.
He went to Hull, didn't he, eventually?
Yeah, he could have moved somewhere else down the Premier League, but stayed with him. But listen, he was happy with it. I just saw Gigi Buffon's tribute to him yesterday. It was incredible. I didn't see that. Just put a big post up on Instagram and he's talking about how he used to take himself away to the woods, wanted to be with the family down by the river.
What are the key highlights of the Dublin Derby preview?
Just a very isolated type of character and didn't buy into all the kind of trails and all of being a footballer, just wanted to be with his family. So it was an emotional post from him, but obviously had a big impact on him as well.
Yeah, he won that Serie A at Juventus, didn't he? David Seaman as well, a lovely word from Tudor, said it was actually quite difficult and he was worried about getting his place back after that run that Manninger had. I remember, there's a feeling, he got Player of the Month in the Premier League in March 1998, which isn't an insignificant achievement. For a goal.
for a goalkeeper standing up for a young fella he was very young at the time when he was in goal in that phase but I just remember my memory of him and sometimes the nostalgia plays tricks in your mind and all that but that he felt a bit unbeatable at one stage and his reflexes were insane he was an excellent excellent goalkeeper he was as well and I think you look back at that goalkeeper unit the competition at the time was so fierce you look at Jens Lehmann and the goalkeepers down through it but then when you step away from it I'd probably have a better relationship now
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