Episode 1689: US Murph’s Heartbreak As Niners Blow The Super Bowl, Ken’s Birthday Celebrations With Thanks To Clare FM, Ireland Team Announced For Wales
Losing a Super Bowl is never fun, but the way the San Francisco 49ers managed to blow a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead will rankle with US Murph until his dying day, if he lives that long (as John Ford, another Irish-American, would put it).
No Words ????????
— OurSF49ers (@OurSf49ers) February 3, 2020
He talks to us about regrets, scapegoats, Patrick Mahomes… and telling his kids not to take it too seriously, while secretly wanting to cry his poor, beautiful Californian heart out himself.
FINAL: Chiefs 31, #49ers 20.
KC scored 21 points in the final six minutes. An epic comeback. Or, from the other side, an epic … aw, the hell with it. Congratulations to Andy Reid, young Mahomes. Losing Super Bowls sucks. #SBLIV— Brian Murphy (@knbrmurph) February 3, 2020
It’s Ken Early’s birthday today, and we have a beautiful recorded message from Ken’s friends at Clare FM to mark the occasion, and Matt Williams joins us to talk about the Irish team picked to play Wales on Saturday, with continuity the main watchword.
Peter O’Mahony and Robbie Henshaw have been named in Andy Farrell’s Ireland team to face Wales in Saturday’s Six Nations clash in Dublin https://t.co/zejInuqeci
— RTÉ Rugby (@RTErugby) February 4, 2020
©INPHO/Dan Sheridan
Plus there’s the sinking of the Titanic, Oscar de la Hoya… and we finally have an answer for those of you wondering where Mark Horgan has been. He’s been making a podcast series for the BBC, and it’s going to be coming your way very soon.
BIG NEWS: We’re proud to present a brand-new, international investigative podcast series produced by Second Captains & presented by @younghorgan.
Announced in London today, ‘Where is George Gibney?’ is 2 years in the making & coming soon to @BBCSounds
https://t.co/w5CDZ6he8p pic.twitter.com/HSW7CtoCDL— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) February 4, 2020
Click the image at the top of the page to play the show. Monday’s shows are free to all – to listen to our programming throughout the rest of the week, join the Second Captains World Service. It’s independent, commercial-free and member-led with feature interviews, breaking news, Richie Sadlier’s Player’s Chair, The Politics Podcast, and lots of added extras.
Yesterday evening Spurs ensured Man City fell an absurd 22 points behind Liverpool in the Premier League table
We discuss some of the reasons why City, despite sitting top of the xG table, are eating Liverpool’s dusthttps://t.co/nLooKwVwVr pic.twitter.com/LXiNeyUYFL
— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) February 3, 2020
While members of the mainstream media took the easy option and chose England as 6 Nations champions in their pre-tournament predictions, it took a maverick like Simon Hick to come out swinging for France, and his fraternité has so far been rewardedhttps://t.co/OcNfbp9VQF pic.twitter.com/ast6hmoz9v
— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) February 3, 2020
Go to PatreonAs we hurtle towards ‘Brexit Day’, we speak to @DavidSneyd about the consequences the UK’s exit from the EU could have on the ability of young Irish footballers to join British clubs, and what that might mean for Irish football overallhttps://t.co/R4NtLIGS0f pic.twitter.com/85Z4idwlbH
— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) January 30, 2020