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Salah Week, Ken Called It, Chess Cult
We’d another barn-storming week this week, with the main story being Mo Salah’s rapidly-deteriorating relationship with Liverpool Football Club, which...
Ep 3423: Rio's World Cup Jitters, Munster Take A Bath, Rieko Arrives, Dingle At The Death - 08/12/25
Permutations Man had a rough week last week and he is back on air today to explain what happened.
Ken asks if Rio Ferdinand was the worst possib...
Ep 3422: Villa's Glory, Ken Weeps for Europe, Mixed Zone Mo - 08/12/25
The memory of Friday's FIFA draw continues to linger like the smell of a dead rat under the floorboards. As he whines about middle-of-the-night kick o...
Jimmy Dunne On The Miracle Of Budapest, A Szoboszlai Never Forgets, Hasan Piker On The American Berserk
We've seen it all this week on Second Captains, from ultrarunning with 100 mile world record holder Caitriona Jennings to 'American ultraviolence' wit...
Ep 3417: Caitriona Jennings On Her 100 Mile World Record, Saint Charlie, Rugby Loses Its Marbles - 01/12/25
Caitriona Jennings is the proud World Record holder over the terrifying distance of 100 miles and she spoke to us in studio about how and why she was...
Ep 3416: Watching Pots Boil, Premier League Mad Men, Caicedo Erupts, The Como-verse - 01/12/25
Just as a watched pot never boils, an obsessively tracked Irish striker in Europe does not deliver goals under the desperate hungry eyes of the nation...
Liverpool Lack Anger, The Dutch Perspective On Slot, Tantalising World Cup
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Ep 3411: Lest We Forget Evan, Trophies In November, Spreadsheet Early, Glasgow Kiss- 24/11/25
GOOOOOLAZZOOOO... OK Evan Ferguson's first goal for Roma was not quite in that category but we can say now that the Eternal City has officially entere...
Ep 3410: Back In Your Boks, Scrumpocalypse, Chasing James Ryan - 24/11/25
South Africa beat Ireland 24-13 but in reality it was a demolition by Rassie's men. Did the whole game hang on James Ryan's deserved red card, or coul...
The Post-Hungary Glow, Next Up Czechia, Branno Comes For Ken's Throne, The Ashes Is Underway
It's been a beautiful, podcast-packed week on the World Service since Troy Parrott stole the nation's heart on Sunday afternoon in Budapest. Seven sho...
Ep 3404: Ireland Hammer Australia, Mack Is A Catch, Which 10 For SA, The Red Boks - 17/11/25
The Irish lineout was near perfect, their kicking game was on point, a few key players are back in form, they have a new fullback option in Mack Hanse...
Ep 3403: Parrott Meets The Moment, Good Times Return For Irish Football - 16/11/25
Skill, heroics, late late glory... things like this don't happen to us, until now.
Ken, Eoin and Murph record today's show in a state of joyous...
Ireland 2-0 Portugal, Tantalising Football, Isak And Zlatan
We've recorded a lot of podcasts.... but the one we just posted today about all the great moments, all the heroes, all the Ronaldo comedy and all the...
Ep 3398: Ireland's Quick Fix, Farrell's Few Words, Boks Are The Best - 10/11/25
Ireland eventually got the win over Japan on Saturday but all the same doubts remain about a team that has had very few good performances since the su...
Episode 3397: Shamrock Rovers Eat World, FAI EGM Draws US Attention, Man City The Peoples' Underdogs, Icicle Kick
It was a surprise to wake up on Saturday morning and find that US Senator Lindsey Graham had been putting the boot into the FAI.
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Infantino's Award, Why Bellingham, DJ' Carey's Motive - 06/11/25
It was a heck of a spread put out for our world service members this week with Infantino announcing the creation of a new FIFA peace prize and appeari...
Ep 3392: Ireland Fade To Black, Clown Show In Chicago, Almighty Dollar, Sacha So FineBerg - 03/11/25
For an hour on Saturday Ireland looked comfortable, if not quite in control, against NZ, and then came a sliding doors moment as Jamie Osborne dropped...
Ep 3391: Frank Tanks, Techno Fascism, Rice/Caicedo GOAT Battle, XG O'Neill, Sado-Brannochism - 03/11/25
Players despise fans, we know that, but should they nevertheless feel compelled to salute them at the end of every game or can we all do without this...
The Week That Was; Conor Murray's Chicago Memories, Shooting Hoops With The Mob, Leopold Bloom's League Of Ireland
This week winter announced its arrival with rain that was general all over Ireland, nonetheless we've been having a fun week here at Second Captains T...
Ep 3386: Madrid Back On Top, Slot’s Doom Spiral - 27/10/25
Is Keith Andrews the new Mikel Arteta? Hard to say for sure, as it suddenly seems as though everybody wants to be the new version of the Arsenal coach...
Believe The Hype, Orla's Year, Parker And Lee, Ruthless Giants
Orla Comerford has just come off a sensational year, one which started in Paris in September 2024 when she took a Paralympic bronze medal in the 100m...
Ep 3381: Munster Monster Leinster, Jack Of Heart, NZ Clouds Gather - 20/10/25
Munster had 35% possession, 31% territory, had to make 270 tackles to Leinster's 117, had the inferior scrum, went down to an early try, and we're pla...
Ep 3380: The Old Premier League World Is Dying, And The New World Struggles To Be Born - 20/10/25
Ken is on holiday!! Come back, please keep reading, there is a but coming.. Ken is on holiday BUT given the enormity of the football weekend we have a...
Dunphy At The Gaiety, Martin O'Neill On XG, Kuper's World Cup Fever
What an Incredible week we’ve had in Second Captains, and thanks again to our guests and those who came to the Gaiety both nights. Eamon Dunphy got th...
Ep 3375: Andy Farrell On His Life And Career - 13/10/25
It’s live show day in the Second Captains offices, but we still found time to send our best and brightest (and oldest), Simon Hick off to talk to Andy...
Ep 3374: One Battle After Another - 11/10/25
Ireland have fallen to their second defeat of the 2026 World Cup Qualifying campaign and now sit bottom of Group F on one point.
Ken dials in f...
Heimir's Armenian Hangover, England's Golden Losers, Ben Healy's Big Break, KenCall Live - 09/10/25
Finn Azaz was asked about Heimir’s comment last week that the Irish players underestimated the challenge of Armenia. “I think it goes further than tha...
Ep 3369: Gavin Gone, KENCALL Live, The Race For 10, Boks Clever - 06/10/25
“I made a mistake that was not in keeping with my character and the standards I set myself. I am now taking steps to address the matter.” With Jim Gav...
Ep 3368: Don't Push Erling, Ange Fights Bigger Kid, Liverpool's Known Knowns
Brentford’s Sepp van den Berg showed one way not to defend against Erling Haaland this weekend: start the game by pushing him around in a mildly irrit...
The Prem Becomes Set-Piece Rollerball, Arsenal x The RAF, Ryder Cup Sociology, NFL Lessons For The GAA - 02/10/25
The weekend's sport draws to a close, Monday arrives and you get a double shot of Second Captains. The world feels brighter, airier, you walk with an...
Ep 3363: Ryder Cup Retained, Shane Saves The Day, US Fans Go Below The Belt - 29/09/25
It was a wild Ryder Cup weekend at Bethpage Black, for good and for bad.
Despite heckling from American fans that managed all at once to be ann...
Ep 3362: Inside Camp Andrews, Emotionless Man, Enzo Gets Dreaded Confidence Vote, Town Square Isak Reaction
An explosive reaction to Liverpool's first defeat of the season maybe suggests discontent with performances was simmering through the recent series of...
Ep 3357: Kate O'Connor's Incredible Silver, Cian McPhillips Goes Forth, Ryder Cup Preview - 22/09/25
Kate O'Connor's heptathlon silver medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo was one of the truly great Irish sporting achievements. To post...
Ep 3356: Arsenal Draw, Maresca's Plank, Pep's Paradigm - 22/09/25
What must it be like to go to sea on what is expected to be a normal fishing expedition, only for the captain to go mad and start forcing random crew...
Last Minute Liverpool, Amongst Geordies, NFL In Croker, Rome Derby, Big. In Japan
The Champions League has been a lot of fun this week with Gurbanov, the madness in Turin, and Liverpool winning late, yet again. We chatted to Neil At...
Ep 3351: RIP Ricky, Donovan Beaten In Belfast, Ireland Lose To France In RWC QF - 15/09/25
Two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton, who was one of the best-known and most loved fighters of his generation, has died at the age of 46.
Gava...
Ep 3350: Big Erling, Big Nick Energy, Ruben Sticks, Serene Arsenal, Liverpool Figuring It Out - 15/09/25
Nick Woltemade’s had his critics - some of the biggest Bundesliga beasts of all time popping up to give him a surprise pre-debut kicking in the media...
Taking Up Hurling At 42 - Searching For Perfect Failure Or Having A Midlife Crisis?
What if, at 42 years of age, having spent your entire life playing Gaelic football, you were to take up one of the fastest sports in the world, one th...
Ep 3345: McIlroy's Magic 2025, Irish Open Roars, Trump At The Tennis - 08/09/25
When McIlroy drained a monster eagle putt on the 18th green at the K Club to get into a playoff, the fans at The Irish Open let out a roar worthy of a...
Ep 3344: Ireland Are Still Alive, Ken In Armenia, Damien Delaney On Irish Defenders - 08/09/25
Ireland 2-2 Hungary - a scoreline that looked highly unlikely after 20 minutes, then looked reasonably likely after 55 minutes, before being greeted w...