Dustin turns down FAI’s turkey job to focus on Eurovision
IN DEMAND: Dustin's leadership skills are wanted by FAI
The foul-mouthed singer told the Herald that he had been approached by soccer’s top brass for the number one job in Irish football.
However, the feathered TV presenter, whose song Irlande Douze Points has caused controversy among veteran Eurovision fans, says he turned down the biggest job in Irish soccer in favour of his passion music.
“Some lad called Delaney called me on the dog and bone and asked to meet, he said he had an offer I couldn't refuse – so naturally I thought he'd lined up Caroline Morahan for me,” Dustin told the Evening Herald.
“Things haven't been going great with me and Caroline since she heard about meself and Pamela Flood doing a spot of snogin' outside the jacks in RTE,” he said.
Dustin says he flapped his way down to FAI HQ where instead of being met by a television beauty he was greeted by “a fella that looks like the grim reaper himself ”.
Dustin added: “I thought this lad had just stepped out of the Jim Henson Creatures Workshop. “So we sat down for a drink, I'd a cup of tea, he just had a mug of blood, and he started telling me he wanted me to consider becoming the gaffer.”
The FAI have come under fire in recent weeks over their failure to locate a new manager and Dustin says he wasn't surprised that they wanted to choose someone like the popstar wannabe.
“I mean I do have leadership written all over me – oh yeah that was quite the stag night when me mate Vomit took out his permanent marker,” he quipped.
The Turkey made demands befitting of a musical diva requesting a free shell suit, his own whistle and a new pair of boots.
GREATNESS
After the initial approach from the FAI, Dustin spent the weekend considering his options, he was close to agreeing terms on Monday morning when news broke of his bid for Eurovision greatness and alas it was with a heavy heart that Dustin decided his nation needed him in song more than football.
Meanwhile, listeners to Joe Duffy's Liveline who heard Irlande Douze Points for the first time cried fowl on the lyrics.
The song draws strongly on camp lyrics popular amongst other entrants:
“Shake your feathers and pop your beak, shake it to the west and to the east/wave Eurohands and Euro-feet, wave them in the air to the turkey beat.”
