Episode 2354: Wide Open Championship, Soft All Irelands, Who Is GMAC?, Ireland-Ukraine

Nothing tastes as good as being proven right, but what if you were to be proven right, and then everyone else started copying you? That’s what Murph is grappling with this week after Tyrone’s meek defence of their All Ireland title was ended by Armagh.

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Results and performances last weekend have proved again that this is a wide open football championship. We chat to Flynn and McConville about Tyrone’s capitulation, Armagh’s smart strategy, Monaghan’s missed chance, mediocre Mayo, why Meath should get Jim McGuinness in as their next manager and we look ahead to Donegal-Armagh and a potential shock for Mayo this weekend.

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Ireland play Ukraine in Dublin tonight in a fixture that, on the face of it, one might assume can’t feel all that important to Ukraine’s players given the context it’s being played in and following the weekend’s disappointment against Wales.

'We are alive and we are fighting' – Competition is secondary as Ireland and Ukraine meet for the first time https://t.co/ImlnCbRFTA

— Gavin Cooney (@gcooney93) June 8, 2022

Plus we discuss the extraordinary comments that came out of the LIV Golf Series press conference yesterday, where self-awareness was in short supply.

"This is uncomfortable"

Kevin Na had an awkward end to his LIV press conference as a journalist tried to ask a question about deferred payments from the PGA Tour and whether resigning membership would allow players to hold onto them.pic.twitter.com/aQwHge0qW6

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) June 7, 2022

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Phil Mickelson's latest statement seems to be written in a language unfamiliar to most humans

Ken tries to decipher the Rosetta Stone https://t.co/rse3Yr7Xdp pic.twitter.com/LrgXsAWYLH

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