Episode 3189: Intercounty Managers Unzip Their Lips On The FRC; VAR, Metaphysics And The Holy Roman Empire

A number of listeners – who have been anxiously pacing the floorboards waiting for Ken’s return over the last week – today get the chance to have their say on football’s topics du jour. There’s the metaphysics of V*R, the six circles of Man United managerial hell, and warring medieval Catholic factions, the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

Conflict is not reserved exclusively for the Italian middle ages, of course. The Gaelic football managers of the nation have in the main kept their counsel on the new Football Review Committee enhancements – but this week the lid came off. Paul Flynn and Conor McManus talk to us about where all the ‘feedback’ (to paraphrase Jim Gavin) came from.

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We also discuss Armagh’s all-action performance against Dublin, Shane Walsh’s free-taking form, the fate of the long kick-out, and the hand-brake about to be applied to Donegal’s league season.

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Plus there’s innovators vs laggards, Murph vs managers, and League of Ireland referees who clap back.

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