Tony Dunne

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Tony Dunne
Personnel
Surname Anthony Peter Dunne
birthday July 24, 1941
place of birth Dublin ,  Ireland
date of death June 8, 2020
position Full-back (left)
Juniors
Years station
Manchester United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959-1960 Shelbourne FC
1960-1973 Manchester United 414 (2)
1973-1979 Bolton Wanderers 170 (0)
1979 Detroit Express 12 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1962-1975 Ireland 33 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1982-1983 Steinkjer FK
1 Only league games are given.

Anthony Peter "Tony" Dunne (born July 24, 1941 in Dublin , † June 8, 2020 ) was an Irish football player and coach . The used mostly on the left -back was in the 1960s, a regular in the team of Manchester United , the 1963 FA Cup (twice the English championship in 1965 and 1967 ) and the 1968 European Champion Clubs' Cup won.

Athletic career

Club career

Born in the Irish capital, Dunne won the FAI Cup with Shelbourne FC at the age of 18 . He also caught the eye of Matt Busby , who as coach of Manchester United was in the middle of the rebuilding phase as a result of the Munich plane crash in 1958 . The transfer fee for Dunne, who impressed as a full-back with straightforward play and speed, was £ 5,000.

Dunne, who ultimately succeeded Roger Byrne , made his debut for "United" on October 15, 1960 against the then reigning champions Burnley FC in the First Division . The game ended in a 3-5 defeat and the stake was one of only four in the 1960/61 season. An injury to his compatriot Noel Cantwell in November 1961 ensured that Dunne was allowed to prove himself more regularly and in the end there were already 35 competitive games in the 1961/62 season. A year later he won his first major title with the FA Cup . In the final win against Leicester City , he was one of three Irish - together with captain Noel Cantwell and Johnny Giles . He also benefited from the fact that he could not play on the left wing, but instead helped up on the right if necessary. This made him the first choice in the race for the English championship and he never missed a single game on the way to the 1965 title . Almost a year later he scored his first league goal for Manchester United on May 4, 1966 in a 3: 3 away game against West Bromwich Albion . There was only one more to follow in his career and that was 19 months later against Newcastle United - also in an away draw. In his home stadium, Old Trafford , he was not granted a goal and his low scoring was due to the fact that he interpreted his role very defensively and rarely used offensive runs. After the second English championship title in 1967 , he celebrated the greatest success of his career the following year.

Dunne played a total of 49 competitive games, including all games in the European championship competition . On May 29, 1968 he was next to his Irish compatriot Shay Brennan and the Northern Irishman George Best part of the victorious team that defeated Benfica Lisbon at Wembley Stadium . Dunne was considered one of the keys in the club's defensive game, as his speed could rarely be overrun by opposing wingers and had high anticipatory skills.

This sporting climax marked a turning point in Dunne's career. First, his coach and sponsor Matt Busby resigned in 1969 as a coach of Manchester United. From then on he had to deal with several successors within a short time, who were called Wilf McGuinness , again Matt Busby, Frank O'Farrell and Tommy Docherty . While his performance continued to be characterized by consistency, the club's overall form showed a clear downward trend. After the signing of the Scot Docherty, Dunne only played four games for United, the last of which on February 17, 1973 against Ipswich Town on Portman Road . The sporting management then let him move on to the Bolton Wanderers at the beginning of the 1973/74 season free of charge . Quite a few in their own appendix regretted this decision and speculated that with Dunne the 1974 descent could have been avoided.

In Bolton, which had just been promoted from the third division, Dunne was 166 times in a league game in the starting line-up. He showed under coach Ian Greaves , who had also been full-back at Manchester United, continued performance at a good level and he was a regular in a team that was promoted to the top English league in 1978 and the following year there was safe relegation . Dunne then ended his professional career in England. In the summer of 1979 he was briefly on the road in the North American NASL for Detroit Express .

At the beginning of the 1980s, Dunne briefly coached the lower-class Steinkjer FK in Norway before he opened a driving range in Altrincham in England in 1984 . He died in June 2020 at the age of 78.

Irish national team

Dunne made his first appearance for the Irish senior team on April 8, 1962, on the occasion of a friendly against Austria , which was lost 3-2 at home in Dalymount Park - at his side, Noel Cantwell, a team-mate from Manchester United acted as a center forward . In the following years his comrades from Manchester (Noel Cantwell and Shay Brennan) competed for positions in the Irish selection. His number of 33 international matches appears to be very low given his more than 700 competitive matches at the club. This was allegedly also due to the fact that his coach Matt Busby had reacted sensitively to an injury to his protégé after an international trip and was ascribed the following quote: “They run it like a Mickey Mouse club. They can have the others, but they can't have you. ”He didn't score a single goal for Ireland, which in turn suited the way he played at the club. The last time he completed an international match against Turkey was on October 29, 1975 . The match on the occasion of qualifying for the European Championship in 1976 ended in a 4-0 win and all four goals scored Don Givens .

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Individual references / footnotes

  1. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Ireland - Record International Players. In: rsssf.com . December 20, 2019, accessed June 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Tony Mogan: Tony Dunne dead: Manchester United great passes away at 78. In: standard.co.uk . June 9, 2020, accessed June 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b Ivan Ponting: Manchester United Player by Player . Hamlyn, London 1998, ISBN 0-600-59496-3 , pp. 70 .
  4. ^ A b Irish Footballers that Played for Manchester United - Tony Dunne. In: soccer-ireland.com. January 18, 2018, accessed June 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ Mary Hannigan: Where are they now? No 17: Tony Dunne. In: The Irish Times . December 7, 1998, accessed June 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dunne, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunne, Anthony Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2020