The Norwegian guy the other day was great.. Hope they get him back on again during the season
Lars is a regular on the Guardian football weekly podcast if you would like to hear more from him.
I just can't hack Barry Glendenning unfortunately
Barry is weird, probably the least football knowledge on that podcast, often doesn't input much but the podcast can be so boring when he's not on it.
Fair enough, his shtick does get irritating. Haven't listened to the podcast for a while now as it's typically just repetition of the same talking points.
That and Ken is streets ahead of most. Great that he's come back out of retirement!
Is there a delay with today's podcast?
Edit
It's there now
It seems to be coming out later a lot lately... What a confusing sentence I just wrote 😃
If you go on to the Pateron page it’s there quickly. On the Apple podcast app it’s seems to be a day late… every day
Good that Ken is back
They are missing commuting times for releasing pods. Not happy. Not happy at all. Sort it out up there!!
The Rocky/Ken's diet before a run audiobed never gets old. Amazing.
It's great. And yet I can't help think, every time I'm listening to it, how he managed to eat and drink that much food in an evening as a diabetic.
Presumably he just whacks up the insulin to match? probably still not the best idea though
What's he supposed to do? 'Was like buns to an elephant.
I was wondering about that story that came out a few weeks ago that reported that the 5 lads all draw the same salary from the company. I was listening to the radio show on Saturday and it's just Eoin & Murph, with Mark as series producer. And then Mark did the BBC work for the George Gibney pod, so how does that even out I wonder?
Maybe it’s like how Paul McGuinness apparently got U2 to agree at the start of their careers that they’d all get paid the same, to prevent jealousy and bad blood when they got successful.
Although presumably Ken, Murph and Eoin get paid separately for their extra curricular activities
Maybe. I assumed that the likes of Premier Sports for Eoin and columns for Ken & Murph are completely separate. Without knowing the ins and outs of the workings of second captains, it looks like Ken & Simon get the best deal...
Without Ken’s football coverage they would struggle
Doesn't Ken write for the Irish times as well though?
Ya, but I assume that's a separate deal. Murph has a column there too.
True, but equally without Eoin's hosting they'd struggle. And for all his apparent faults, Murph is excellent for GAA and other sports. They all bring something to the table but does Ken do an equal amount as the others?
I couldn't disagree more - Ken is their biggest draw. The Football podcast is very much Ken's Show and it nearly always gets more listens than the general podcast.
Real snoozefest today from Richie
If they didn't have Ken covering football and whatever else their audience would probably halve.
yeah it was pretty dull.
TBH I doubt much of their audience have much interest in the Women’s Euros but they probably felt that they had to cover it.
I thought it was pretty decent by Richie, not sure how popular the tournament was here but I watched a good chunk of the Euros and found it quite enjoyable.
Also, anything which can increase exposure to the women's game can't be a bad thing. Makes a nice change from hearing about Ronaldo
There's a lot of shark jumping going on though all the same. Summertime with limited alternatives and a nation of event junkies (not a criticism, it's the same as ourselves) results in the crowds we saw at Wembley yesterday. Seen talk of game changers, calls for pay parity now etc.
Let's see how the interest holds over the next few months.
Would agree with a lot of this. Not sure what exactly people found boring about it? He made some very good points about it.
I watched bits and pieces of women's Euros and it was certainly entertaining in the main. The BBC coverage was akin to Russian state propoganda TV when it came to England, but apart from that I was more interested in it than I expected to be.
Richie is good at certain topics such as player chair etc but when it comes to regular football chats he's soooooo sloooow and ponderous. I like him but just not on those topics
That's a fantastic deal for Clayton in particular, who is basically a passenger with a bad hairdo 😁
Talk of pay parity is all very well, but people aren't going to pay £30+ a month to watch WSL - pay is proportiional to revenues.
The attendances are also very low and outside of whatever TV money they get, I doubt any of the professional women clubs make any money.
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