<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>

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>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.&nbsp;</p>

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

Joe Jackson is a journalist, interviewer, author and IMRO-Award nominated radio presenter/producer. He has interviewed roughly 1,400 people in the world of the arts, politics, and entertainment for all major media outlets in Ireland, including RTE Radio 1, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times, and Hot Press. His articles have been published globally in magazines such as Vox, Rolling Stone, and Snoozer. His radio shows include The Years Go Pop, 26 one-hour documentaries a 26 on the history of popular culture, People Get Ready, 52 one-hour documentaries on the greatest music acts of the 20th century, and Under The Influence, which was nominated for a 'Best Music series' award. In 2018, his documentary about Elvis Presley, Conversations about the King, was nominated for an IMRO Award in the 'Best Music Documentary' category.

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