RTE pundit Eamon Dunphy has been criticised by Irish fans for slating Ireland's vital 1-1 draw with Germany and calling boss Martin O'Neill "Trapattoni with a Derry accent".
The 69-year-old former Milwall player labelled Martin O'Neill's team selection a joke and feels Wes Hoolahan was mistreated.
Dunphy believes Ireland won't qualify for Euro 2016.
He said: "We’re not going to qualify! There is no ifs buts or maybe.
"If you’re going to play players out of position, like Aiden McGeady in midfield, it’s a joke. No other word for it. "
Here is how Twitter responded to the RTE studio after the last gasp draw.
It comes as Dunphy thinks Roy Keane will never be a manager again because hasn’t got the personality for it.
Dunphy was the ghost writer for Keane’s first autobiography in 2003, but the pair had a very public fallout shortly afterwards.
And the RTE pundit seemed to stick the boot in today when he said Keano, 43, is too “intolerant” to be a good manager.
Giving his verdict on the fiery Corkman’s second book, The Second Half, Dunphy said: “There are elements of his character, intolerance of other people to put it bluntly, that mean that he may never be a great manager and if this is the way of getting a management job in the future then I’m not sure it’s the best way to do it.
“I think he wants to go back to management. I think football is the great thing in his life, apart from his family.
“But I think he is a football man, I think he loves the game and I think he wants to find a place in the game but I don’t think he’ll ever be a manager because of his character and personality.
“He is a loner, he is intolerant, he’s very interesting, and he’s a very good TV analyst.”
Dunphy also had praise for the book, written by Roddy Doyle, commenting it is “really outstanding” and “very dramatic”.
He also defended his former pal, saying: “I do think the story’s worth telling and I think that kids should read this book, young people who want to be footballers because it does show the difference between someone like Keane who’s bright, emotional, straight and someone like Ferguson who’s shrewd, experienced, manipulatve and a great manager.
“Ferguson shafted him badly and that’s an important story to be in the public domain because the history of football and of Manchester United demands it and I think Roddy Doyle has done an outstanding job and Keane has been honest.”
Dunphy, 69, also disagreed with widespread criticism that the former Red Devils star was only settling petty scores.
But he said the Ireland no2 shouldn’t have published the book when the Republic have two important games to win tonight (SAT) and Tuesday.
Dunphy revealed: “When you read the book, it isn’t an exercise in score-settling. It’s a story and a very interesting and compelling story and it’s well told.
“I would agree that he shouldn’t have published it this week and brought this circus around the Irish team when they’ve two very important games.
“I do feel this thing sucks the energy and the air out of the training camp.”
Straight-talking Dunphy also hit out at former Manchester United boss, Alex Ferguson and accused him of goading short-tempered Keano to make him leave.
He said: “It’s tragic to see this great, great footballer begin to lose it because his body can’t take it. And he’s playing with painful injections, he’s getting tablets and painkillers and he’s playing through this pain.
“Ferguson obviously sees, and Keane admits in the book, that he can’t be the player he was and it’s like a slow train crash. The man is really tormented and Ferguson manipulates him into a situation where he knows that, given Roy’s character, he will walk out, that he will do something
“And that’s really what happens.” He added: “There were a series of events which I think were an attempt to goad him, knowing that he had his pride and that he would react the way he did.”
He amassed a fortune of more than €33 million and broke the €123,000 a week pay barrier during his Old Trafford heyday.
But Aston Villa and Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane has admitted he had to tighten his belt when he finished with Celtic in May 2006.
Revealing how he sat his five kids down to tell them there’d be no more holidays in Dubai, the Corkman said: “I suppose we just wouldn’t be going to Youghal as much. We’d probably have to knock Dubai on the head.
“I’d like to think we don’t spoil our kids but when you stop playing, you do have to cut back.
“I appreciate not maybe like the man in the street, but from the lifestyle of when you’re a player and you’re literally getting hundreds of thousands a month and all of a sudden that stops and you do have to adapt.”
Opening up about the dream wages and lavish lifestyle that go with being a sports star, the 43-year-old added: “I think when you’re a sporting person, when you do stop playing you do think where is the income going to come from because you have been spolit.
“You’ve been brilliantly paid for something you love doing anyway, ridiculous amounts of money, and it’s gone to another level now and you think ‘there’s a long time left on this planet’ and I’ve got five kids and four of them are girls and girls are cheap.”
