Pat Dunne

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Pat Dunne
Personnel
Surname Patrick Anthony Joseph Dunne
birthday February 9, 1943
place of birth Dublin ,  Ireland
date of death September 25, 2015
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960–1962 Everton FC 0 (0)
1962-1964 Shamrock Rovers
1964-1967 Manchester United 45 (0)
1967-1970 Plymouth Argyle 152 (0)
1970-1988 Shamrock Rovers
1978-1980 Thurles Town
1980-1981 Shelbourne FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1965-1966 Ireland 5 (0)
1966 Ireland U-23 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1978-1980 Thurles Town
1980-1981 Shelbourne FC
1 Only league games are given.

Patrick Anthony Joseph "Pat" Dunne (born February 9, 1943 in Dublin , † September 25, 2015 ) was an Irish football goalkeeper and coach . He won the English championship with Manchester United in 1965 , but could not prevail there despite the great success. He finally found his luck more in his Irish homeland with the Shamrock Rovers and in the late 1960s in south-west England near Plymouth Argyle .

Athletic career

Club career

Dunne made his first attempt at English football as a junior goalkeeper at a young age, but soon returned to Ireland with Everton FC to play for Shamrock Rovers . There he was in the 1963/64 season in all 22 league games between the posts. He won the Irish championship and the " double " with the FAI Cup . He was also able to attract attention at the European level when he narrowly failed in the trade fair cup against the later finalists FC Valencia (0: 1, 2: 2).

In May 1964, Matt Busby signed him from Manchester United for a transfer fee of £ 10,500. Since United's goalkeeper Harry Gregg was suffering from injuries at the time, Dunne immediately advanced to "number 1". He made his debut on September 8, 1964 at Goodison Park in the game at the ex-club from Everton and conceded three goals (final score: 3: 3). Despite the only moderately successful debut, he remained part of the team and against Nottingham Forest (3-0) he kept a "clean slate" for the first time. Overall, Dunne played 55 competitive games in the 1964/65 season, of which 37 were league games. Of these, in turn, he remained clean 17 times and ultimately won the English championship with Manchester United due to the better goal difference against Leeds United . At the beginning of the following season 1965/66 Dunne initially completed a few more games, but both the recovered Gregg and Alex Stepney , who was signed up in 1966 , increasingly put competitive pressure on him. Therefore, Dunne only played eight league matches and his last appearance on September 14, 1966 against FC Blackpool ended disastrously with a 1: 5 bankruptcy. In February 1967 he finally moved to the second division Plymouth Argyle for £ 5,000 . Dunne was not necessarily considered a poor goalkeeper at "United". In addition to his strengths in reactivity and strength in duels, there were weaknesses that manifested themselves above all in opposing flanks and in the often inadequate control of the penalty area. The local supporters had a particularly negative memory of the FA Cup semi-final replay against Leeds United, in which Billy Bremner later scored the winning goal for Leeds and Dunne was unable to intercept the long cross from about the center line.

Dunne stayed in Plymouth for a good three years and rose in 1968 to the third division from bottom of the table . After a form weakness at the beginning of the 1970/71 season, the former Arsenal goalkeeper Jim Furnell was committed and so Dunne's use on November 2, 1970 at AFC Rochdale (1: 1) was his last. Dunne then hired a second time in Ireland with the Shamrock Rovers. He often competed there with Alan O'Neill for the goalkeeper position, but only in the 1977/78 season he left the club after he had been in the starting line-up under new coach Johnny Giles in August 1977. His last stations were Thurles Town and Shelbourne FC in the early 1980s as player-coach before ending his active professional career in 1981.

Irish national team

Dunne played his first full international match for Ireland on May 5, 1965 . In qualifying for the 1966 World Cup finals in England , he won 1-0 against Spain at Dalymount Park, which was his only goal-free appearance for Ireland. The second leg was lost 4-1 in Seville and the necessary play-off in Paris ended in a defeat (0-1). On November 16, 1966, Dunne's fifth international match against Turkey was his last. In this new qualifying game (now for the European Championship 1968) he left the place as a 2-1 winner.

After the active career

In 2004, Dunne began working as a goalkeeping coach with the Shamrock Rovers. There he collapsed on November 5, 2004 during the warm-up before the game against local rivals Bohemians Dublin and then recovered from it. He also made headlines around two years later when he was charged with sexually motivated assault of a sexual assault in 1999 in the mental hospital in Dundrum, where he had since found a new job as a nurse. A settlement was reached that included a payment of 75,000 euros by the hospital management without admission of guilt by the defendant. Dunne died on September 25, 2015 at the age of 72 after a brief illness.

Title / Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ryan Danes: Plymouth Argyle - The Complete Record . DB Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-85983-710-8 , pp. 93 .
  2. ^ A b Ponting, Ivan: Manchester United Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59496-3 , pp. 65 .
  3. ^ A b Irish Footballers that Played for Manchester United - Pat Dunne . soccer-ireland.com, accessed September 27, 2015.
  4. ^ Dunne recovering after pitch collapse . RTÉ Sport , June 14, 2007, accessed on September 27, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ann O'Loughlin: Hospital settles for € 75,000 over accusations of assault by nurse . Irish Independent , October 12, 2006, accessed September 27, 2015.
  6. ^ FAI pays tribute to the late Pat Dunne. Obituary on the Football Association of Ireland homepage , September 25, 2015. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Dunne, Pat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunne, Patrick Anthony Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish soccer goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2015