Episode 1270: Mayo Ladies Football Farrago, Boxing’s Intractable Doping Problem, Good Guys 3-2 Bad Guys In Champions League
It’s been a long summer of discontent in Mayo Ladies Football, with 12 players walking out of the panel 10 days before the start of the All-Ireland series in July, and claim following counter-claim between the management and the players ever since for the reasons around that walk-out.
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Sinead O’Carroll of thejournal.ie is in studio to talk to us about why this story has rumbled on for so long, the dangers of using language calling into question the players’ health and safety, and why female athletes don’t want different standards attached to their dressing room rows.
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Wrote about the Mayo women’s row again. The players have legitimate grievances but throwing around words like ‘unsafe’ moves everything to a different plane. https://t.co/6vxItajekU
— Malachy Clerkin (@MalachyClerkin) September 19, 2018
if the qataris are serious about winning the champions league, they should start subsidising the rest of ligue 1 so that PSG can sharpen up for europe with the occasional competitive domestic game https://t.co/4YLriJqgRW
— Ken Early (@kenearlys) September 19, 2018
Two massive global fights, two weekends in a row, and both of them feature drug cheats – we talk to Mike Costello, legendary BBC boxing commentator about why this is such an intractable problem for boxing to deal with.
Plus there’s Neil Warnock, Mark’s dreams as he sits in the presenter’s chair, Neymar’s antics, and Ken’s Eddie Hearn impression.
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With Liverpool vs PSG the pick of the opening CL fixtures, Ken has some questions for their marketing gurus – including, is PSG the uncoolest brand in the history of capitalism? @LennyKravitz @KendallJenner #marketing #marketeers #PSG https://t.co/zQrdERZeKb pic.twitter.com/xECr3yOiUr
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Go to PatreonWe speak to bestselling author of The Sports Gene @DavidEpstein about the mechanics of Kipchoge’s marathon time, why size matters and age doesn’t, and the fallacy of trying to quantify the impact of running shoes, carbohydrate drinks, and training methodshttps://t.co/zQrdERZeKb pic.twitter.com/GJjPK296bS
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