Selected highlights of a row that broke out between Roy Keane's ghost writer Eamon Dunphy and fellow RTE pundits Liam Brady and John Giles during last night's coverage of Liverpool v Real Betis.
ED: "Niall Quinn is a creep ... a joke ... The man is an idiot."
ED: "Arjen Robben is a bird-brain." ED: "All [Cristiano] Ronaldo can do is fanny about."
LB: "It was wrong of Keane to come out and criticise his fellow pros just so he could get a new contract", to which an apoplectic Dunphy retorted: "Get your facts straight. Henry's doing it, they all do it; last year Vieira fannied, flipped and flopped ... funny you forgot about that, Liam, with you working at Arsenal."
ED (to presenter Bill O'Herlihy): "Who are you to call Roy Keane a thug?"
BOH: "I didn't. It was in the Sunday Times."
ED: "l tell you who said it, it was Rod Liddle. Let me tell you something about him, Bill. He left his wife and kid and ran off with some young one. That's the kind of guy he is."
And, finally, ED: "I'll tell you what Roy Keane is: he's a gentleman. He is right about everything."
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I'm not even supposed to be here today.