The Second Captains Podcast

One of Ireland's greatest ever athletes, David Gillick, has retired - he gives his first interview to Second Captains. A 2-time European champion, Gillick looks back on his career on the track, nerves for life, his regrets... and his new sporting pastime. Dublin and Meath have qualified for the Leinster football final - Anthony Moyles and Malachy Clerkin talk to us about what Meath can do to stop the Dublin juggernaut, this morning's qualifier draw, new body types, and why Armagh is one place where no grudge will go un-nursed. Plus we discuss keeping up your tea intake during a World Cup, Costa Rican players re-enacting 'The Crawl', innate athleticism and Ronnie Delaney - Irish sprint king. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There were four extraordinary games over the weekend, but still the world's appetitite is not sated. We talk Holland's high hopes, Van Gaal's self proclaimed genius, the Neymar pressure cooker and Colombiaaaa.Journalist and author Simon Kuper joins us from Brazil to talk about the path to the final for the Netherlands, and how the limited gameplan is a good way of limiting over confidence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ken is in the jungle, and unfortunately he is the hunted not the hunter. Yes, he had his bag stolen and is grateful to mother nature for teaching him the laws of the jungle.Richie Sadlier joins us in studio to discuss RTE pundit passion, Luis Suarez's options and what the long term reality is for the Uruguayan. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eoin and Murph discuss runaway labradoodles, American cheer, drinking cans on the Great Wall of China and silver backs.Brian Murphy is driving the US soccer bandwagon, it has its own mini bar and he wants us all to hop aboard. Yes, the Luis Suarez bite has gone 'caost to coast'. Andy Murray has gone from being coached by ice man Ivan Lendl to the famously nervy Amelie Mauresmo. We talk to Jonny Watterson at Wimbledon about women coaching men, good listeners and relaxed Andy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ken was at the Italy Uruguay game to observe one of the strangest moments in World Cup history, and one of the most complex characters in sport, Luis Suarez.We get reaction from the Uruguayan media and analyse what the consequences might be for Suarez, for the team, and for FIFA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eoin, Ken and Ciaran talk about Andrea Pirlo and the Two World Cups, Luis Suarez strangeness, and Louis van Gaal's fatal flaw.Dion Fanning joins us from Rio to analyse Brazil's improvement against Cameroon.All this plus Murph's elbow in the face, Maradona's kitchen, honest Italy and rest day depression. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Henry Shefflin starting on the bench yesterday, Joe Canning could have been forgiven for thinking he'd be free of the comparisons for one afternoon. Maurice O'Brien and Nicky English give us their thoughts on what will happen in Shefflin-Canning part 2.Derval O'Rourke is one of our favourite sportspeople, and after her retirement today we're joined by Jerry Kiernan and David Gillick to talk about one of our greatest ever clutch athletes. We have Shane Curran on the weekend's Gaelic football and the future of the minnows in the All-Ireland football championship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was a World Cup weekend for the ages, and our man in Brazil Ken Early was there for perhaps the most dramatic 45 minutes so far, as Germany and Ghana played out a thrilling 2-2 draw.Miguel Delaney joins us to talk about the Messi Argentina dynamic and if Belgium's many talents can be unified.And there's the late night habits of the Argentinian sub-goalie in 1986, the mis-firing German charm offensive, and the Jurgen Klinsmann/Jogi Loew love-affair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So, one week in and we've already lost our World Champions. After a week of extraordinary football, Richie Sadlier is in studio to discuss what we should have seen coming, and what we could never have guessed would happen.Ken is overcome with emotion when asked to sum up the first seven days, but recovers his composure to ask Jonathan Wilson about the crush at Maracana and whether its the Spanish system or the players that have come to an end.And we reveal the hitherto unknown link between George Bush at Yale, former Irish physio Mick Byrne and Pepe Reina Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The GAA championship would want to be pretty bloody good to distract from this World Cup... so it's just as well hurling has picked up where it left off last summer. The Irish Times' Malachy Clerkin and Kilkenny legend Michael Kavanagh (they have 8 All-Ireland medals between them) they Shefflin, Canning, Cody, consistency.The USA's World Cup win over Ghana took the nation by storm - US Murph tells us how a country that's usually so relaxed about that whole patriotism business got all swept up in patriotic fervour.Plus we have Bobby Kerr's pants, an extended World Cup #pbeso edition, DiCaprio's party, and a half-hearted message from Barack Obama. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.