Second Captains Part II

Ken has got a bit irritating lately.

Last year he bitched constantly about VAR being used incessantly, this year he's complaining about the game being let go a bit more.

That Dougal guys e-mail was bang on the money and Ken was such a spanner in his reply to it.

Big long time fan of the man and it's still very entertaining to hear him rant, but, honestly, over the last couple of weeks he's began to bore me and that's the first time in fifteen years I can say that.

Ken’s mental unraveling seems to have coincided with Ronaldo signing with Manchester United… coincidence ?

I hope his snorting/pig noise today is now the default hot key

That was brilliantly tacked onto the end today. Well done Mark.

Just listened back to Monday's GAA pod. I thought it was odd that not once was Covid mentioned. Surely the fact that Tyrone were so riddled with Covid that they had to pull out of the championship only to get a week extra leading to them being absolutely flying in the semi and still roaring fit by the final was worth a bit of discussion, or even a nod?

Also, Paul Flynn's main focus seems to be to link the topic back to what they did when he played for Dublin. Not sure I'd consider him one of the best, like Eoin says.

Well, let's hope we never find out. I don't think I could handle listening to him speak about that again. Actually couldn't believe it when he started going on about it again yesterday. So incredibly dull.

I'd say they avoided the covid subject as it was done to death in the build up to and the aftermath of the semi final. I would be a big GAA fan, really wanted Mayo to do it, but would have had no interest in the review of the final bringing covid into it again. It will make for a very interesting sidenote in any 30for30 style doc on the championship in years to come though!

In fairness to Flynn, he was one of the best players on the best team of all time. Do you mean you think he's not one of the best pundits or players?

Best pundits... He's not great, unless he's allowing Oisin test strips off him.

What does malice have to do with anything? You don't need malice to commit a bad tackle, you just need to commit a bad tackle. I don't think anyone at any point - ken included - thought there was malice in it. But he jumped into a tackle, from behind, for which you can't be too annoyed about a red card. Probably should have been yellow under more normal circumstances, but it's easy enough to see why a ref knocks it up a notch when a fella's foot is hanging backwards after it.

She said it enough that it was obvious she thought she was happy for us because in her mind irish and British are the same.

Don't think it was that big a deal tbh.

Maybe she meant it one way or maybe she didn't, it was pretty ambiguous. I thought it was equally about her just being happy that people got to see it.

Scotland AND Britain... Smh...

Bob Mortimer on the pod today. Bit out of left field that one.

Random guest is random. Looking forward to listening later on.

The Athletico Mince Second Captains crossover the world has been waiting for?

He was coming into by the end but overall it wasn’t up to much