Caught offside with Andrew Gunling and J.J. Devani.

Oh yes, caught offside just outside of New York City from an apartment in Brooklyn, New York, Andrew

Gunling, J.J. Vavani. What's up brother? I'm ruined. Oh, absolutely ruined.

Just. Mike connect. Absolutely ruined. Just my connection with the Irish national soccer team, I've made clear on this podcast over the years.

Like they were my introduction into the game my first love the team whose defeats would hang with me

like a millstone around my neck until the next international window.

But most, well, for the middle, or my formative years watching them,

like defeats were a rarity.

They were brilliant, at one point ranked third in the world

imagine when was that

uh... prior to 94 world cup they were like top five i think

uh... yeah but they were i mean an Eric Cantonad tipped them to win USA 94.

Yeah, they were brilliant, but they haven't been for a long, long time and as Gavin Cooney wrote on the 42. i.e there may be further to fall.

We lost the Greece on Friday and it just it wrecked it we were so poor manilas in the

midfield if I could if I could have paused time like in some terrible CBS show where there's a guy who can pause time.

This is the kind of stuff they'd show. Sunday pauser I'd pause time and I go and I'd find some kind of Irish heritage for Manilas and I just like we have no player like him. I'm just watching him in the midfield and I'm like Jesus Christ and we have probably

We've one of the top rated young players in world football up front and we might as well have an

Edwardian you know bedroom set we might as well have tea cups, a collection of tea cups, anything, a laptop. It doesn't matter.

He ain't getting the ball, he's not getting set up, it's not happening.

Picked apart by the Greeks 2-0. And then the rugby team are in the quarter-final, the Irish rugby team are playing the

All Blacks on Saturday, yesterday.

So I went to that game.

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