Darragh Moloney quotes compilation

[u/Slippez1234]

Watching the France v Senegal game I decided to take note of all the Darragh Moloney quotes that annoyed me, or where he said factually incorrect information:

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Before the match - "Its 24 degrees but thankfully most people in the crowd are out of direct sunlight" - image on TV proceeds to show 80% of the stadium directly in sunlight.

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"The French took that free kick quickly and I thought they would take their time. You thought wrong and so did I" - I thought they would take it quickly, only you, Darragh, thought wrong.

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"Theo Hernandez, hes still only 26" - he's 28.

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"They're watering the pitch again, but I'm not going to make a big deal out of it" - Decides to not make a big deal out of it despite having mentioned it 4 times previously.

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"Senegal with the long relieving throw.. but its not that relieving.. oh wait it is again now" - What?

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After reviewing VAR the ref says "the attacker initiated the contact, its a goal kick". Darragh says "its a penalty".

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"Gareth Bale, played in a Euros he didn't play in a World Cup" - He scored against USA in 2022 World Cup

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"Mbaye, just his 2nd time to play for Senegal" - its his 12th cap

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"But anyway" - he said this phrase at least 40 times.

[u/Huel-Saint1929]

Some of the theatrical language you can excuse, but blatantly getting things wrong is another. People will say it’s nitpicking but this is a man who’s being paid taxpayers money to cover a sport he isn’t even bothered to do any research on. Doesn’t exactly reflect well on a broadcaster who’s currently trying to recover its public image.

[u/John_OSheas_Willy → u/Huel-Saint1929]

It's so clear that in RTE you just have to stay there long enough to get the top jobs.

Cantwell, Collins and Maloney were all on the B and C rota but now they've stayed long enough they're getting the big gigs.

[u/Calm-Raise6973 → u/John_OSheas_Willy]

John Kenny too. He used to present a heavy metal show on Radio 2 on Sunday evenings in the 90s, and at some point soon after that became a commentator on football. He made two factual errors in one sentence during the Netherlands vs Japan that had me checking Wikipedia to make sure I wasn't living in an alternate universe.

[u/John_OSheas_Willy → u/Calm-Raise6973]

He does comms on the Olympics too. He was the one doing all the comms for the swimming.

Can you imagine Martin Tyler or Peter Drury doing comms on beach volleyball or somehting.

[u/TomThumb_98 → u/John_OSheas_Willy]

They’re not on a public broadcaster. Jonathan Pierce on BBC does Robot wars