Episode 1520: Kilkenny Ireland’s Most Beloved GAA Team? Eoin Morgan Ireland’s Greatest Ever Sportsman? Free To Air Matters, McDevitt V Serena
The Cricket World Cup is over, and despite Ireland’s absence, we had the most influential man in the tournament. Eoin Morgan’s achievement in captaining England to victory, in extraordinary circumstances on Sunday evening at Lords, can’t be under-stated.
One of our favourite writers Jonathan Liew tells us just how influential Morgan has been in turning the England ship around, why Morgan used to be unpopular with England fans, why free to air matters, and why this most English of sports still has plenty of work to do to recover its place in English life.
One of the greatest finishes ever seen in a game of cricket. England are world champions. Here’s my report. https://t.co/wRQ5Wd5o1S
— Jonathan Liew (@jonathanliew) July 14, 2019
Kilkenny are now Ireland’s most popular hurling team, according to Eoin and Murph, and we speak to Brian Hogan about how his old boss Brian Cody is doing some of his best work at the moment, and how they’ll put it up to All-Ireland champions Limerick in their All-Ireland semi-final.
And – Eoin thinks he could take a point off Serena Williams….. Ken strongly disagrees.
*stumbles hesitantly into this debate… The YouGov tweet doesn’t accurately reflect the question in the poll. There’s no mention of “game” in the question. If playing indefinitely v Serena (or Federer) I think normal punter “could” win a point *exits quietly https://t.co/IZCeBhFR4x
— Eoin McDevitt (@EoinMcDevitt) July 13, 2019
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Oisin McConville *thinks Jim Gavin has a very specific plan for Diarmuid Connolly
*was sitting in hot car for a long time so faculties diminishedhttps://t.co/WP9WtgNpEi pic.twitter.com/xL3kaP14gs
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@SecondCaptains @saveciaranmurph @EoinMcDevitt @kenearlys @Younghorgan once Murph said it I just couldn’t not pic.twitter.com/GIvzqetw8U
— Paj (@pajmahalia) July 15, 2019
Go to PatreonWould Man United’s purchase of Harry Maguire for £80m be one of the craziest signings of all time?
Ken says: just sign big Shane Duffy ??
Murph says: Englishness counts for something when it comes to winning over fans ????????????https://t.co/nvrRzs8Sbc pic.twitter.com/5GudEOpv11
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