Episode 1769: Fussball Returns, Hips Don’t Lie
Football is back – in Germany at least – but might there be an incredibly obvious way in which its return could be improved?
against socially-distanced weekend football https://t.co/OwBRqFS6VP
— Ken Early (@kenearlys) May 18, 2020
Eoin is pleased that running has become the sole sporting outlet of a people in chains, but he is by no means the most enthusiastic proponent of the no-ball game. Meanwhile Ken has been trying to develop correct hip alignment, incorporating advice from some of the greats.
We used to be considered a bit mad. Now it’s helping all of us from going insane. https://t.co/Y7n3SJOIcW
— Ian O’Riordan in Lockdown (@ianoriordan) May 16, 2020
We speak to Felix Tamsut of Deutsche Welle about the Bundesliga restart: were there any setbacks on the first weekend of the return? How is the football changed by the absence of fans? Why did polls suggest that most Germans were against it? And if it’s so unpopular, why did Sky Deutschland report record audiences for its Bundesliga programming this weekend?
More protests against the Bundesliga’s restart:
An actual sofa has been placed at FC Köln’s stadium.
Text reads: “Stadium instead of sofa! Against ghost games!”
Posters also seen across Cologne imitating #Effzeh’s adverts: “Money matters more to us than your health!”#KOEM05 pic.twitter.com/kjJrcWoVFq
— Felix Tamsut (@ftamsut) May 16, 2020
Plus there’s Eoin’s tropes, hostile Haaland and runner’s friend.
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We’d a series of brilliant guests this week starting with Shane Lowry on “The Game That Changed My Life”, Andy Cole on his struggles since a kidney transplant, Lenny Abrahamson on making sport look real on TV and DOD on the baffling success of Romantica????https://t.co/9teVK1RMQY pic.twitter.com/zvmgyPNfdW
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It’s been a whirlwind week of emotional highs and lows on Achill: Real Talk Tuesday, Weepy Wednesday, Tops Off Thursday and the original, Mayhem Friday.
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