This week’s guest on Behind the Lines is Tommy Martin of Virgin Media.
We speak about how he left his job in bank to break into television, and how Virgin Media put together a soccer panel to rival RTE’s. We also discuss the influence of the likes of Bill O’Herlihy and Des Lynam, and Tommy assembles his fantasy panel of football pundits.
He also recalls what has become a definitive story about John Delaney.
Tommy’s picks were: “Hero worshipped by his people”, Hugh McIlvanney’s obituary of Jock Stein for the Observer, September 1985 ; Ball Four by Jim Bouton; A Strange Kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy
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