Best Midlands Football Show Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 2988: Ireland Get Boks’ed, Pickford's Magic Bottle, Le Pen Le Loser - 07/07/2024 1:05:21

2d ago1:05:21

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Saturday in Pretoria was supposed to be many things, a battle between two teams who don’t like each other very much, the teams ranked 1 and 2 in the world, a chance for Rassie Erasmus to finally coach a team to victory over Ireland… in the end, it came down to 2 hours of watching to see if James Lowe had stepped out of touch in various weird and wo…

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Ep 2987: The Lion And The Unicorn, Big Man Summer, Surrogate Host Out, Bossman Semis - 06/07/2024 52:39

3d ago52:39

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There'll always be an England, and under Gareth Southgate it’ll always reach the latter stages of major football tournaments. This was his fourth straight ¼ final and now his side are one game away from back-to-back European Championship Final appearances. So what’s the bloody problem then? We chat to Ken from the stadium, accompanied by Jack Pitt-…

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The Ronaldo Show, England Getting Away With It, How To Stop Limerick; A Corkonian Explains 56:11

6d ago56:11

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It's been a great week here at Second Captains as we chased Ken around Germany as he followed the Euros Circus from Frankfurt to Berlin. Murph also developed a sense of wanderlust and packed the car for Cork where he met with Jamie Wall to chat though this coming weekend's All-Ireland Hurling Semi-Finals. Join the party for a fiver a month – there’…

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Ep 2981: Galway End Dublin, Four Contenders, Risk Free Kerry, Armagh Can - 01/07/24 1:04:59

9d ago1:04:59

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Dublin are out at the quarter-final stage of the All-Ireland senior football championship for the first time since the “startled earwigs” of 2009, and it took an incredible second half performance by Galway to take them down. Michael Murphy and Paul Flynn talk to us about the end of an era (?) Galway’s tactical bravery, Kerry’s safety-first approac…

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Ep 2980: Saved By The Bellingham, Nico's Spanish Symphony, German Groove, Ugly Italy - 30/06/24 1:22:49

9d ago1:22:49

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England were truly awful for most of tonight’s game against Slovakia, until Jude Bellingham's sweet finish bailed out his country at the death. We get Ken’s post-match analysis from Gelsenkirchen. Southgate lives to fight another day but surely this crew can't beat the Swiss army knife? And Lars Sivertsen gives us his thoughts on the Spain game, Ni…

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Ken's %, Georgia Turn To Europe, England And The "Attention Economy", Pitch Invader Pain 28:46

13d ago28:46

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Welcome to our best of Euros show. It’s been a great tournament so far with underdog wins, Willy's mighty Georgia, Turkish finesse, lunatic fans, English mediocrity, and loads of 0.0% and 5.1% Pilsner Ken. Join the party for a fiver a month – there’s no contracts, no hidden fees and no ads. Go to secondcaptains.com/join for details. Hosted on Acast…

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Ep 2976: Squid Games Championship, Tasty Quarters, Scenic Midlands, Marquee McManus 56:18

15d ago56:18

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The Gaelic football season is the party that no-one was allowed to leave for large spells of this summer... but now the blade is being lowered with ruthless efficiency, and the narrative quickly moves on to those teams left standing. Michael Murphy and Paul Flynn say goodbye to Mayo, Tyrone, Monaghan and Cork in short order, before we look ahead to…

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Ep 2974: Group Stage Scots, Füllkrug Powah, Ronaldo's Invaders, Euro Perms - 24/06/24 47:50

16d ago47:50

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Scotland have qualified for 12 international football tournaments, and they have failed to get out of their group at each and every one of those 12 tournaments. This time around it was a 98th minute winner for Hungary that finally put paid to their hopes. Jonathan Wilson joins us from Stuttgart for the latest episode of Scottish tournament heartbre…

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Euro Fun, Kylian Courage, Scottish Limbs, Hungarian Power Ballads, Happy Ken 33:41

20d ago33:41

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Welcome to our best of Euros show. It's been a great tournament so far with wild games, mad fans, power ballads, low-energy England, Mbappe's politics, and a happy Ken on tour. Join the party for a fiver a month - there's no contracts, no hidden fees and no ads. Go to secondcaptains.com/join for details. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m…

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Ep 2968: Rory's Forever Pain, GAA's Revolutionary Rules, Dubs Don't Hyde - 17/06/24 1:06:21

23d ago1:06:21

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Oh Rory. Oh Rory, Rory, Rory. Lawrence Donegan and the lads wrestle with what we saw last night. Is it career-defining? How can it not be? Paul Flynn is with us to discuss two draws in the Gaelic football championship yesterday, with vastly differing outcomes. And there’s the Football Review Committee’s ‘sandbox games’ this weekend, trialling some …

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Ep 2967: England Crawl To Victory, Bellingham Brilliance, Ken On Rails - 16/06/24 59:12

23d ago59:12

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England expects. England awaits. England bores. England Wins. We chat to Ken and full time England watcher Miguel Delaney. While riding the rail to Gelsenkirchen Ken encounters an Albanian man who literally risks his life and limbs for our football correspondent. The Euros may not even be out of the first weekend but the littlest hobo is all in. El…

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Ken At The Euros, Sporting Purgatory, Humble Pie 23:16

28d ago23:16

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As Ken heads off to the Euros in Germany, now is the time to become a world service member if you want to gain access to our all our coverage throughout the tournament. Plus there's instant access to all our archives (almost 3,000 shows), there's features such as this week's fun chat with Conor Niland and Gavin Cooney about the tennis netherworld, …

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Ep 2962: Our Bumper Euro 2024 Preview Pod - 10/06/24 1:07:22

1M ago1:07:22

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Euro 2024 kicks off on Friday with Germany v Scotland in Munich - and here's our tournament preview pod. James Horncastle and Jonathan Wilson join us to talk through the contenders. What can we expect from the champions, Italy, under Luciano Spalletti? Can England justify their status as tournament favourites? What about the hosts, Germany, who hav…

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Ep 2961: European Gold Rush For Ireland, More Medals To Come?, McDevitt v Kiernan Reprise - 10/06/24 45:16

30d ago45:16

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It was an incredible weekend for Irish athletics. Last Friday, Sonia O'Sullivan was the only Irish person to have ever won gold at a European Championships. Ronnie Delany, Eamon Coghlan, John Treacy - all had tried, none had succeeded. By this afternoon, we had added 5 names to that roll of honour, after the success of Ciara Mageean and our mixed r…

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Man City Want It All, Turbulent Tennis, Success And Succession At 10 1:01:54

1M ago1:01:54

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This week on the World Service we had Ken on Man City's latest legal power grab, Caitlin on turbulent times in the tennis world, and Ian Madigan on Irish rugby's inability to fix the 10 succession plan. Plus we have daily Euros shows coming up with Ken in Germany, Murph as Gaeilge, the Olympics, the summer tour in SA, football with Flynn and Murphy…

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Ep 2956: Madrid’s 15th, Diego Torres On Carlo, Vini And Mbappe, Germany Tops the Sportswash League - 03/05/24 59:36

1M ago59:36

59:36

Real Madrid did that Real Madrid thing to win a staggering 15th Champions League title at Wembley - but it takes more than that to impress Don Diego Torres, who joins us from the Spanish capital to evaluate their triumph. Has this Madrid generation surpassed the Di Stefano-Puskas team of the 50s? Do Bellingham, Vinicius Jr and Ancelotti deserve to …

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Champions League Final Preview, Duff Man, Flower Power 20:28

1M ago20:28

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This week on the World Service we had a top-class Champions League final preview with Sid Lowe and Rapha Honigstein, we discussed Carlo's chill, watery Dortmund, Duff man said a lot of things to Richie Sadlier, plus there was hurling with Jamie, football with Flynn and Murphy and we will chat to Brian Murphy about Celtics legend Bill Walton who ove…

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Ep 2951: Drink A Drink To Erik The King - 27/05/24 1:22:40

2M ago1:22:40

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Erik ten Hag finally cottoned on to the winning formula for Man United managers - treat the press scum with the contempt they deserve and win the hearts of the crowd. But did this display of alpha dominance come too late to save his job? We argue the case for and against. Mark Critchley and Barney Ronay join us to look back at the FA Cup final - an…

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Ep 2950: Leinster Max Out On Misery, Death By Poach, Take Your Points, The Dupont Show - 27/05/2024 59:36

2M ago59:36

59:36

Yet again it was Champions Cup misery for Leinster, this time with Extra Time, for maximum pain and anguish. Despite trumping Toulouse on almost every conceivable metric and spending lots of the game in the opposition 22, they conceded 19 turnovers and failed to score a try in normal time. We chat to Shane Horgan and Ruaidhri O'Connor about death b…

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The New Guard Of Management, Leinster's Everest, Bossman vs Duffer, Cork Hurling Hype Train 36:03

2M ago36:03

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Welcome to our World Service Best Of show. This week, we feature a chat about the brave new world of top-level football management with Jonathan Wilson, celebrity St. Pats fan Ciarán Murphy's trip to Richmond Park, the culmination of what's been a box office Munster Hurling Championship, and why Shane Horgan is feeling shaky about Leinster's chance…

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Ep 2945: Mister Sunday, Kentucky Cops, Lowry's 62, Usyk Unifies 42:07

2M ago42:07

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Having been dubbed “Mr Thursday” by certain ill-informed commentators last week, Xander Schauffele answered every criticism in securing his first major title. We review a wild US PGA championship with Gavin Cooney and Lawrence Donegan, featuring arrests, Kentucky Cops, divorce, Rory's repeat and Shane Lowry’s 62. We also discuss Oleksandr Usyk’s th…

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Ep 2944: This Means Bore?, Hedonic Treadmill, Rodri Troll, Ta'ra Jürgen, Irish Premier Numbers, Duff Chats Kenny Hugs 1:15:09

2M ago1:15:09

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Manchester City are champions, as it was foretold by Eoin McDevitt some months ago following their 0-0 draw with Arsenal. No Premier League opponent got within two goals of them since, as also foretold by Eoin McDevitt. With all this having been so long foretold, we start off today talking about Jurgen Klopp's farewell at Anfield and what the early…

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Postecoglou Sours On Spurs, Team Rhasidat, Kerr's Speech, GAAGO To War 24:54

2M ago24:54

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This week on the Second Captains World Service Ken sat down with Brian Kerr to reflect on Kerr's short stint back in the Republic of Ireland dugout. Meanwhile, Olympic medal hopeful Rhasidat Adeleke joined us for a chat about her love for relay. However, things turned sour for Jacob Rees Murphy who found himself confronted by critics/haters of his …

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Ep 2939: Super Value Hurling, Murph On Leeside, Taoiseach v Uachtarán, GAANooo 51:28

2M ago51:28

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Cork/Limerick was an occasion for the ages, and Murph was there with today’s guest Jamie Wall to experience the home team’s 3-28 to 3-26 win in a raucous Páirc Uí Chaoimh. We reflect on how Cork managed to pick holes in Limerick’s defence, the champions’ come-back, the last-minute penalty that won it, and why Paul Kinnerk was losing it on the line …

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Ep 2938: Arsenal Alive, Trafford Falls, Spurs And The City - 13/05/24 1:03:41

2M ago1:03:41

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Does it say something about the level of drama in this Premier League title run-in that the most-talked-about thing this weekend was the leaking roof at Old Trafford? Or is that just because everybody is making the same unjustified assumption about Tottenham strewing Man City's path to the title with rose petals tomorrow night? Mark Critchley and C…

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Ep 2988: Ireland Get Boks’ed, Pickford's Magic Bottle, Le Pen Le Loser - 07/07/2024 1:05:21

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Ep 2987: The Lion And The Unicorn, Big Man Summer, Surrogate Host Out, Bossman Semis - 06/07/2024 52:39

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The Ronaldo Show, England Getting Away With It, How To Stop Limerick; A Corkonian Explains 56:11

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Ep 2981: Galway End Dublin, Four Contenders, Risk Free Kerry, Armagh Can - 01/07/24 1:04:59

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Ep 2980: Saved By The Bellingham, Nico's Spanish Symphony, German Groove, Ugly Italy - 30/06/24 1:22:49

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Ken's %, Georgia Turn To Europe, England And The "Attention Economy", Pitch Invader Pain 28:46

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Ep 2976: Squid Games Championship, Tasty Quarters, Scenic Midlands, Marquee McManus 56:18

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Ep 2974: Group Stage Scots, Füllkrug Powah, Ronaldo's Invaders, Euro Perms - 24/06/24 47:50

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Euro Fun, Kylian Courage, Scottish Limbs, Hungarian Power Ballads, Happy Ken 33:41

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Ep 2968: Rory's Forever Pain, GAA's Revolutionary Rules, Dubs Don't Hyde - 17/06/24 1:06:21

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Ep 2967: England Crawl To Victory, Bellingham Brilliance, Ken On Rails - 16/06/24 59:12

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Ken At The Euros, Sporting Purgatory, Humble Pie 23:16

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Ep 2962: Our Bumper Euro 2024 Preview Pod - 10/06/24 1:07:22

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Ep 2961: European Gold Rush For Ireland, More Medals To Come?, McDevitt v Kiernan Reprise - 10/06/24 45:16

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Man City Want It All, Turbulent Tennis, Success And Succession At 10 1:01:54

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Ep 2956: Madrid’s 15th, Diego Torres On Carlo, Vini And Mbappe, Germany Tops the Sportswash League - 03/05/24 59:36

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Champions League Final Preview, Duff Man, Flower Power 20:28

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Ep 2951: Drink A Drink To Erik The King - 27/05/24 1:22:40

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Ep 2950: Leinster Max Out On Misery, Death By Poach, Take Your Points, The Dupont Show - 27/05/2024 59:36

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The New Guard Of Management, Leinster's Everest, Bossman vs Duffer, Cork Hurling Hype Train 36:03

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Ep 2945: Mister Sunday, Kentucky Cops, Lowry's 62, Usyk Unifies 42:07

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Ep 2944: This Means Bore?, Hedonic Treadmill, Rodri Troll, Ta'ra Jürgen, Irish Premier Numbers, Duff Chats Kenny Hugs 1:15:09

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Postecoglou Sours On Spurs, Team Rhasidat, Kerr's Speech, GAAGO To War 24:54

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Ep 2939: Super Value Hurling, Murph On Leeside, Taoiseach v Uachtarán, GAANooo 51:28

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Ep 2938: Arsenal Alive, Trafford Falls, Spurs And The City - 13/05/24 1:03:41

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