Episode 3506: Prague Week Beginneth, In The Studio With Kenneth, Man City Cup Winneth
Prague Week starts with Kenny Cunningham joining us in studio to talk about how he wants to see Ireland approach the World Cup playoff on Thursday night.
Caution: Kenny’s team may shock you.
We talk about the Carabao Cup final, and whether the tactical match-up of baiting the press vs refusing to press is the worst thing ever to happen to football.
While all this is happening Ken goes out to Abbottstown to hear the latest from the Ireland camp, where John O’Shea and Nathan Collins were holding court.
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Plus Arne Slot’s use of resources, Chelsea’s misbegotten alignment strategy, and whether basic overexposure to football is making Ken more irritable with the kinds of goals he sees teams giving away.
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Today we welcome playoff veteran Gary Breen into studio to look back on the disappointment of losing out to Turkey in the Euro 2000 playoffs – the away leg of which most Irish fans never got to see – and the joy and insanity of the games against Iran in 2001.
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