Episode 1690: Lionel Messi Bites Back At Barcelona Big-Wigs, Seamus Moynihan On The Lost Art Of Defending, Colm O’Rourke’s Gotten Himself In Trouble
It has for a very long time been one of the great romances in world sport, but are Barcelona and Lionel Messi on the outs after all these years? In the last 24 hours Eric Abidal, the Barcelona sporting director, laid the blame for the sacking of Ernesto Valverde at least partly at the door of the players… and Leo was having absolutely none of it.
Sid Lowe tells us about the power Messi wields in Barcelona, how sparingly he’s used that power over the years, and whether the fact that Messi can leave the club for nothing this summer is something that everyone needs to start paying attention to.
Barcelona in meltdown after Lionel Messi hits back at Eric Abidal. Story: @sidlowe https://t.co/DIaJKaZW8W
— Guardian sport (@guardian_sport) February 5, 2020
Seamus Moynihan is one of the greatest gaelic football defenders in the last 50 years, and he’s in studio today to talk to us about the Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup, the art of defending, where Kerry need to improve and the captaincy of David Clifford.
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Plus there’s Colm O’Rourke’s pansy-boy comment from last weekend, that little bollocks from Tyrone, what Kerry want and what Kerry need, and fond memories of a flaky Dublin football team.
Just another shout for this piece from yesterday.
Why RTÉ, Colm O’Rourke and all of us are missing out on a chance to learn from what was said.
Why are we not listening?https://t.co/2kbKiDINNw
— Rob O’Hanrahan (@RobOHanrahan) February 5, 2020
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It’s not easy to take the wind from US Murph’s sails, but the 49ers throwing away a ten-point fourth quarter lead in the Super Bowl is one way to do it
We chat to @knbrmurph about Jimmy G criticisms, the amazing Patrick Mahomes and father-son pep talkshttps://t.co/4LQq00aua8 pic.twitter.com/C4mB0kECKL
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Go to PatreonShane Ross insists the financial rescue package agreed for the FAI, which looks awfully like a bailout, is in fact ‘the opposite to a bailout’
We discuss why the ‘opposite to a bailout’ is proving so unpopular on today’s football show
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