Eamon Dunphy 1996, on sex. "Football is not the 'public legitimisation' of homosexual inclinations."

<p>At one point while watching on TV last Thursday's EUFA tournament football match between England and Denmark - in the podcast I describe the moment - I burst out laughing because I remembered the part of a chat I had in 1996 with Eamon Dunphy during what has been described as a legendary interview we did. It certainly was controversial in our homeland, Ireland. As for the subject highlighted in the title of this podcast, it grew organically out of a wider discussion we were having about Dunphy's attitude to sex and stemmed in part from a recent thesis I had read. I didn't agree with the thesis that football is a coded way football players can express gay leanings, and not did Eamon. But it it sure became a talking point and maybe will again. </p>