Episode 1859: Zlatan Meets Tallaght, Ireland Head Coach Vera Pauw On Her Life In Football And Facing Germany Tomorrow, Hectic TV Guide

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was in Dublin last night, looking in quite frankly tremendous physical condition. His early goal set up a 2-0 AC Milan win over Shamrock Rovers, and Eoin has a lot to say about what a big lump of a man he is.

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Vera Pauw has had an amazing career in football – first as a player, the first Dutch woman to play abroad, then as a coach studying with Total Football mastermind Rinus Michels, and latterly as an international manager with a host of countries, up to her appointment as Ireland head coach. She talks to us as Ireland prepare to face an intimidatingly good German side in Euro qualifying tomorrow.

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Plus there’s Frances Murphy’s TV Guide, not one but two scumbags of the week, and Michael Collins on a Dublin bus getting blanked by Ken Early.

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