The reason our site is christened OkeyDokeFootball.com can essentially be boiled down to two words: Bill O’Herlihy.

RTE sport’s finest anchor, Billo has been hosting coverage for every major sporting event the nation has seen since the seventies, and during that time his signature sign-off – ‘okeydoke lads’ – has become a national institution. Well we like it anyway.

Champions League and international coverage is not complete without him trying to stop Eamonn Dunphy going over the top; injecting some life into Liam Brady; and of course his odd little chats with Johnny Giles.

Billo, OkeydokeFootball.com salutes you. Without you we wouldn’t realise just how shite Gary Lineker is.

Billo and Johnny classics…

Billo: "We’ll draw the winners out of a hat a little later in the programme."
Johnny: "A top hat, Bill?"
Billo: "Yes, a top hat, John. We got it out of your wardrobe."

Billo: "What are you actually saying, John?"
Johnny: "What am I saying?"
Billo: "Yeah."
Johnny: "I would be more confident that we could win this game now than before the game."
Billo: "You could be a cock-eyed optimist."
Johnny: "I'm not."

RTE link on the great man

Youtube Billo and the lads: The great man tries to tame Eamonn Dunphy on the subject of one Garth Crooks

Youtube Billo after Ireland win on penalties against Romania in the 1990 World Cup.