TFTES 250

Tales From The East Stand

Gary is back from Turkey, along with Karl's Tallaght Time co-author Macdara Ferris in the Lair. We've broken the record for longest podcast ever but it's #TFTES250 so it's allowed. We talk about writing the book, published 10 years ago this week, there's our Worst XI's since 2009 and short, older interviews with Michael O'Neill (from BBC) and Ryan Thompson (Con Murphy for SRFC TV) on their time at Rovers. Pico Lopes takes on Markus Poom in the quiz, we painfully relive the Drogheda and Breidablik games and look ahead to the trip to Iceland, where we have a mountain, or possibly volcano to climb. From 3 hours 9 minutes onwards is our own exclusive chat with Dessie Baker, whose last career game was Rovers' 16th league title win in Bray 2010, before we pick our combined all-time best XI of the Tallaght era.