Episode 3540: We’ll Always Have Paris, Harvey Vale’s Prague POV, Dry Land Murphy, Mao Re-Match
It was never going to be Paris, but still, at least we’ll always have Paris. We look back on the second Champions League semi-final of the week. It actually wasn’t that bad.
Straight from one of his final training sessions of the season we chat to Ireland’s Harvey Vale. We hear about how close he came to taking a penalty in Prague, his journey from the Chelsea Academy to the First Team to the infamous Maresca ”bomb squad”, life at Jimmy Dunnes’ QPR and if he’s still in love with the game. (Spoiler: He is)
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We also have an update on UCD v Mao, the re-match 50 years in the making and Ciarán mourns his land-locked body.
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The UCD in China 1976 story in the Irish Times – you can listen to Ken’s interview last year with two of the players in the link below.
www.irishtimes.com/world/asia-p…
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