Prague Comedown, Italian Football Surrenders, Tiger Tanks, Writing Rory

About this episode

The episode discusses the aftermath of Czechia qualifying for the World Cup, the state of Italian football, and features interviews with golf writers about Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods.

Welcome to our World Service taster show and this week it's all about the Prague come-down and the build-up to the Masters. As we watched on with horror as Czechia booked their place at this summer's World Cup, Ken was able to find the slimmest of silver linings; at least we're not Italian. And as Rory aims to go back-to-back at  next week's Masters, we speak to some Golf writing Big Beasts as Kevin Van Valkenburg joins us to chat about the latest ignominious episode in the world of Tiger Woods and Alan Shipnuck stops by to chat Rory! To become a member and hear our shows all week it costs 5 euro a month and there’s no ads, no sign up fee, no minimum stay, no contract, and we’re independent and member led – go to secondcaptains.com/join Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Ken

Guests: Kevin Van Valkenburg, Alan Shipnuck

Topics covered

• sports
• golf
• World Cup
• Masters
• Italian football
• Tiger Woods
• writing

Keywords

• Czechia
• Italy
• World Cup
• Masters
• Rory McIlroy
• Tiger Woods
• golf writing

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Tiger Woods

Places: Czechia, Italy

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