Episode 2868: Mboring Mbappe, Carsley Cash, The Enhanced Games Dopes

As you are reading this, somewhere in a London hotel a group of men in suits – some with Irish accents – are interviewing prospective candidates for the role of kit man for the Irish Senior Men’s Squad. On today’s show we riff through the latest Lee Carsley speculation and wonder will Ken’s week off next week finally do the trick for the FAI.

We tell Mbappé to bore off until he signs with Madrid…or Arsenal?

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We are joined in studio by The Journal’s Sinead O’Carroll to chat through the ‘Enhanced Games’ concept. An Olympics free of drug testing sounds like a dystopian streaming series that dropped over the Covid Lockdown, but a coalition of athletes, doctors, scientists and tech billionaires are adamant they can make this a weird reality.

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Plus there’s Qarabag’s Gurban Gurbanov on Premier Sports, our Jamie Wall Fitzgibbon Cup bias, and Frances’ URC Guide.

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