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Second Captains

Second Captains

Listen to the award winning Second Captains free to air podcasts, presented by Eoin McDevitt, Ciáran Murphy and Ken Early. Subscribe to daily shows at secondcaptains.com/join Join The Second Captains World Service and get access to our daily shows and much more. Become a Second Captains member at secondcaptains.com. - iTunes Podcast of the Year - iTunes Essentials Top 10 Podcasts of All-Time - The Guardian"s 50 Podcasts You Need To Hear - Ireland"s Most-Downloaded Podcast

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31:58

Packers' Irish Punter, Arsenal's Title Tension,...

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2026/02/19

Welcome to our weekly World Service taster show!This week we spoke to Green Bay Packers punter Daniel Whelan in studio about his journey from Greystones United to the NFL; Ken covered Arsenal's ongoing title wobble; we looked at Jose's Vini blame game; Jack Pitt Brooke gave us the skinny on Spurs' new coach ahead of the North London derby; Paul Flynn came in to chat about football in 2026, and we build up to England V Ireland in the 6N and the omission of Sam Prendergast from the match day squad.To

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55:50

Ep 3476: Ireland v Israel, Baden-Baden 20 Years On -...

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2026/02/16

Last week, while the rest of the team worked desperately to cover a series of world-shattering football stories, Ken was peacefully wintering at Baden-Baden. He returns with news of the Upper Rhine, where people are, as ever, keeping themselves to themselves.Today we talk more about the implications of Ireland’s Nations League draw against Israel. The matches currently look likely to go ahead as scheduled in late September and early October. But should they go ahead? And can such a decision be made

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1:07:55

Ep 3475: Ireland Survive, 10 Debate Turns Ugly,...

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2026/02/16

Ireland have their first win of the Six Nations, but form and confidence are still eluding Andy Farrell's team. as the out-half debate rages on and the scrum continues to struggle.Shane Horgan and author and journalist Brendan Fanning pick through the issues at 10, the quality of Ireland's tries, and the Lynagh disallowed score.The BBC’s Tom English joins us to talk about Scotland’s astonishing win over England in Murrayfield and if it was all down to the coaching, or the 6 Nations Rugby Gods. We

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30:25

Rainy Night In Sunderland, Czechia's Change Of...

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2026/02/12

Welcome to our weekly World Service taster show! This week we discussed the sacking of Frank and Dyche, Liverpool's rainy night in Sunderland, Ratcliffe on Britain, Winter Olympics Brannecdotes, Operation Grand Slalom, Irish rugby's reboot and Czechia's change of fortune.To become a member and hear our shows all week it costs 5 euro a month and there’s no ads, no sign up fee, no minimum stay, no contract, and we’re independent and member led – go tosecondcaptains.com/join Hosted on Acast. See

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32:01

Ep 3470: Bad Bunny's America, Seahawks Destroy...

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2026/02/09

The Seattle Seahawks were heavy favourites to win Super Bowl 60 last night, and that's exactly what they did - absolutely dominatingthe New England Patriots and their young quarter-back Drake Maye. Brian Murphy has his chest out and his shoulders back after his beloved home city of San Francisco did a bang-up job of hosting the week-long party, and he joins us for his post-game thoughts.Cork are three from three in the National Hurling League, so why is Ben O'Connor so upset about things? And are

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54:30

Ep 3469: City Reignite Title Race, VARCE, Keith...

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2026/02/09

With two late goals at Anfield the Premier League title race went from stone cold, to flaming hot.To pick through the Manchester football revival, the VAR farce, Brentford's brains, the pep in Pep's step and James McClean's new midfield generalrole we chat to Mark Critchley of The Athletic and Gavin Cooney of the42.Our Dublin based LOI insider was in Lansdowne Rd yesterday for a subdued Sunday affair and Eoin takes a look at the Keith Andrews origin story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for

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1:20:10

Ep 3466: Forget it Pep, It's Artetatown - 02/02/26

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2026/02/02

Just one week after wondering if the run-in pressure might get to Arsenal we are - once again - handing them the Premier League trophy after they extended their lead at the top in a chaotic and unpredictable weekend.Lars Sivertsen and Gavin Cooney join us to talk through the action.A lot of people probably gave up on Tottenham-City with Guardiola's team 2-0 up at half-time. They missed an unexpected and glorious Spurs fightback which laid bare the identity crisis plaguing Guardiola's team.The new

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48:49

Ep 2461: Shackle-less Gaelic Football As The League...

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2026/01/26

The Gaelic football season is back, and after a winter spent poring over stats sheets and risk-reward scenarios, it looks like the coaching class of 2026 decided to throw the shackles off and have some fun.Paul Flynn is in studio to talk to us about the Andy Moran impact in Mayo, the most impressive of the young guns we saw taking over games this weekend, why the hooter is an agent of confusion, and the extent to which protests over Allianz’s sponsorship materialised.Plus there’s snow-day in the NFL

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1:09:40

Ep 3460: Has The Arsenaling Begun? - 26/01/26

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2026/01/26

Last night at the Emirates we saw the Premier League game of the season - but will it prove a pivotal moment? That's up to Arsenal and how they react. The one thing we can likely count on with Mikel Arteta is that he will keep doing things his own way until the end.Meanwhile, a new psychological study has revealed the typical personality profile and cognitive skills package of the elite footballer. Today we determine if the brains of either Murph or Eoin have got what it takes.Mark Critchley and

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25:04

Slot's Block, Steve G On TV, The Great Injury...

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2026/01/22

Welcome to our weekly World Service taster show! This week we discussed Davos, Greenland, World Cup boycotts, the Beckhams, LIV V PGA, Arne Slot's low block mental block, Steve G's hair, Man City's slump in form and players reimbursing fans.Plus there's Arsenal muscling up, Allianz and the GAA, US Murph on the NFL playoffs and the great injury mystery of San Francisco.To become a member and hear our shows all week it costs 5 euro a month and there’s no ads, no sign up fee, no minimum stay, no

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1:41:44

Ep 3455: AFCON Chaos Final, MCMUFC, Great Man Theory,...

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2026/01/19

People were calling this AFCON predictable but in the end, it showed us something we've never seen before in a major final - a walk-off that initially looked like a turning point in humanity's war against VAR, and only got weirder from there.After another weekend of... rugged ... PL games, we discuss why so many fanbases seem angry and whether it has to do with the way the game is being played. Do we blame the Pep style, do we blame the anti-Pep style, or is the truth.... somewhere in between?As

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58:42

Ep 3454: Munster Down And Out, Leinster's Sweet Draw,...

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2026/01/19

Dingle are the undisputed kings of heroic comebacks with late wins in the Munster final, the All-Ireland semiand now the final. We chat about a classic club final, Geaney's clutch kick, and codebreaker Mark O'Connor.Leinster are also good at comebacks this season, and their win in Bayonne on Saturday means they have Edinburgh at home in the last 16 of the Champions Cup, and they're on the opposite side of the draw from Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bath and Northampton. Andrew Trimble and Shane Horgan look at

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36:20

Keith's Feats, The West Kerry Life, The Irishman -...

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2026/01/08

The reigning champions V the champions-in-waiting...Slot's defence of the PL title, and maybe his job, could end tonight and we will, of course, dedicate tomorrow’s World Service pod to this clash.Plus there's Keith's feats with Brentford, Kelleher's form in goal, the managerial situation at Man Utd, Arsenal-cup-drinking Thomas Frank, the NFL playoffs with US Murph, and the European Champions Cup with Shane Horgan and Andrew Trimble,An Ghaeltacht are through to the All-Ireland intermediate football

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47:26

Ep 3443: Littler Turns Heel, Ulster Show The Way,...

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2026/01/05

At 18 years of age two time world darts champ Luke Littler has no more worlds to conquer, so now gets his kicks from turning heel. Eoin goes through his wrestling archives while Ken frets about the future of the sport.Leinster won three from three in the Christmas interpros but Ulster are the story this week after a stylish 28-3 win over Munster at a packed out Ravenhill, a result which sent them third in the URC table and got their captain Iain Henderson talking up the good vibes in camp. Andrew

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1:19:58

Ep 3442: Goodnight Sweet Prince - 05/01/26

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2026/01/05

Goodbye Ruben. We are sorry to see you go. You were good to us. We wish you well.We discuss why so many fanbases currently seem to hate their manager/coach - with happy exceptions like Arsenal, and Brentford, whose four goals against Everton amounted to a symphony of the head coach's craft.Mark Critchley and Lars Sivertsen join us to talk about how United reached this point, why they decided to sack him now just as things were arguably getting better, the increasing difficulty of being a head coach

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1:11:29

Ep 3434: Can Villa Keep This Up, Amorim Is For...

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2025/12/22

Inside us all are two wolves. Unfortunately for Wolvesthe football team(despite Matt Doherty's reverse Churchill) it's the wolf that is currently the worst at football in all of Europe. Meanwhile, the Romulus and Remus of Serie A get their teeth into Evan.To talk about Ruben's back four, Villa's rise, Rogers V Bellingham and happy Pep we chat to Mark Critchley.Ken also breaks-down the cash grab in Miami as the guy from YouTube gets chinned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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24:00

Salah's AFCON, A Country For Old Men, Fat Quiz,...

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2025/12/19

It was “Super-Friends Of The Show” week this week, between Killian Sundermann coming in for the Second Captains FAT quiz of the year, a chat with US Murph, our first ever festive edition of KENCALL and Oluwashina Okeleji on Salah's AFCON 2025 and Nigeria's legal route to the 2026 FIFA World Cup .We’ve had an amazing year on the podcast this year, so we’d love to have you aboard. You can also gift a subscription to the Second Captains on our patreon page,We’ll be back on Monday with a live football

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46:29

Ep 3249: Send In The Second Rows, The Munster...

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2025/12/15

Munster and Leinster both won their Champions Cup games over the weekend, both came through sticky situations against English opposition, but overall satisfaction levels are low.We chat to Shane Horgan and Andrew Trimble about Clayton McMillan's realistic outlook on the Munster project, Leinster's pre-Chistmas form, and they react to former Leinster and Ireland out half Ross Byrne's suggestion that, given the volume of box kicks and spiral bombs being launched these days, coaches should start

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1:13:25

Episode 3428: Evan Hype Re-Up, Ruben's High Horse,...

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2025/12/15

It looks like Celtic arrived at a good time for Evan Ferguson, while Robbie Keane seems to be having so much fun in Europe the question is how he will ever be tempted back to the league where he made his name.Morgan Rogers' Stan Collymore-like winner for Villa at West Ham reminds us that it's been a while since Ken read out some npG minus xG stats, so let's get into a bit of that.Jonathan Wilson and Dion Fanning join us to talk about the weekend's football. Why does Jonathan refuse to accept that

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23:11

Salah Week, Ken Called It, Chess Cult

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2025/12/11

We’d another barn-storming week this week, with the main story being Mo Salah’s rapidly-deteriorating relationship with Liverpool Football Club, which we covered in depth.We had a brilliant chat with Danny Rensch, the co-founder ofchess.com, which went from being a successful start-up to a billiondollar company during the pandemic, thanks largely to people being stuck at home. As a kid, Danny was a prodigy, a national champion in the US, who ultimately became disillusioned with the sport.But his

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