Episode 1611: Ken On Liverpool Arsenal And The Xhaka Saga, RWC Final Preview, US Murph On Supernatural Nationals

Ken takes a break from his holiday because Liverpool Arsenal was too much damn fun to ignore, and the Xhaka saga continues.

Nick Easter has been coaching the Natal Sharks for the last two years and started in the 2007 RWC final – the last one to feature an England side. His 2007 side were unloved, sidelined their head coach from the group stages onwards and were seen as no-hopers in the QF, SF and final. We talk to Nick about the contrasts with then and now, and how he found the rugby culture in South Africa.

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Plus there’s US Murph on the World Series, Frances Murphy’s TV weekend, and Matt Dawson’s combined Eng-SA XV.

Former @EnglandRugby scrumhalf @matt9dawson says he wouldn’t include any @Springboks players in a combined XV from England and South Africa. #RWC2019 #RWCFinal https://t.co/sZBAg1T6rj

— RugbyRocks.com (@rugby_rocks) November 1, 2019

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On today’s Football Show, we speak to @Davidsgoldblatt about his new book, ‘The Age of Football: The Global Game in the 21st Century’. We discuss whether football can still be a force for good today, and whether the game has lost some of what made it greathttps://t.co/8NR500QPgU pic.twitter.com/PkHroVdbek

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From F2 Freestylers on Monday’s pod to how Christianity shapes the way you live on today’s, Second Captains is a broad church. Ken chats to one of the UK’s best-known historians @holland_tom about his new book, ‘Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind’https://t.co/CXdCkSshxM pic.twitter.com/jOxCxxaGCc

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We chat to Shane Horgan & @craigray11 after a weekend of drastically contrasting semi-finals. Could Warren Gatland be right in saying England already have their best performance behind them? And can we expect a more ambitious, risk-taking Springbok side? https://t.co/kDeFBqdmBg pic.twitter.com/VqGkGRBwD6

— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) October 29, 2019