Media Career
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Giles later returned to Ireland and settled into a much-admired career in journalism and punditry on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He features on Premier Soccer Saturday and its international and European soccer coverage, particularly their coverage of games involving the Republic of Ireland national football team. Giles contributed to RTÉ Sport's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup where prior to it starting he correctly predicted Spain would win the tournament. He is currently the leading soccer analyst on Newstalk.
Of the English Premier League, Giles is often critical of the methods of modern coaching, and in particular, younger managers, with him saying recently:
"When you hear the younger managers talking, it's all about tactics now. If their players are not playing well, they change the formation. There's nothing about not passing the ball to each other or mis-placing passes. It's all about, well the tactics were wrong. I've seen it so often, you hear it on the television as well. Their team is playing very poorly, they're 2–0 down at half-time, they're giving the ball away, kicking it out of play. Well what do you have to do, and they start talking about changing the formation. No matter what formation you play you have to pass the ball to each other.
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