Gaffer’s farewell and thanks to chairman
SATURDAY was Chris Dunphy’s final home game as Rochdale chairman and manager Keith Hill was quick to pay tribute.
Mr Dunphy stepped down after 12 years in the roll and an association with the club stretching back to the early eighties.
“It was an emotional day for Chris and all his family, I’m glad they were all there to support him,” said Hill. “He’s been a brilliant chairman to work building new sides – it’s been very successful. He with and on behalf of the been brilliant to work with deserves a lot of credit for club. We’ve had many him twice. The what has been achieved at great teams and done a lot relationship has stood the this club – the purchase of of great business during test of time because he the stadium, twice our time and it was a sad has allowed me to do promoted. Well done to day but the club will what I do and I have to Chris and to the rest of his survive and move on and I admire him with respect family, it’s been a real know that Chris will to last season when many enjoyment working for always be an avid a football club would have him and with him in supporter of what we do probably questioned the securing the future of this at this club and he’s never manager’s position at the football club and the far away if I need him. club and he didn’t. He successes we’ve had on
“We’ve been through probably did internally the pitch, and we’ve had a promotions, play-offs, over a glass of wine, but lot, people have got to Wembley, recycling and he kept his cool and we’ve realise that.”
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