What Makes Football Great?

About this episode

The episode discusses what makes a great game of football, featuring an interview with Harvey Vale and covering various football-related topics.

Welcome to our World Service taster show. This week was all about PSG Bayern and what makes for a great game of football. We interviewed Harvey Vale about his decision to join Ireland, his Chelsea years and rejecting a move to the Saudi leagues. We also covered the Arsenal Atletico Madrid peno farce, the fallout from Munster's appointment of Roger Randle (a move that has since been cancelled), LBJ's presidential manners, Leinster's return to the thunderdome, and coming up we have Flynn and McConville on football, and the Champions League second legs. Click the player at the top of the page to play this taster show. To listen to our programming throughout the rest of the week,  join the Second Captains World Service . It's 5 euro a mont, there’s no contracts, no hidden fees and shows can be listened to on all good podcast apps, on Spotify or through our website. It’s independent, commercial-free and member-led with feature interviews, breaking news, Ken’s Football Show, The Politics Podcast, and lots of added extras. You’ll also be supporting the development of our longer-form work, such as our international series’ ‘Where Is George Gibney?’ and Stakeknife. Hosted on Acast…

People in this episode

Host: Second Captains

Guest: Harvey Vale

Topics covered

• football
• PSG
• Bayern
• Champions League
• interviews
• sports news

Keywords

• football
• PSG
• Bayern
• Champions League
• Arsenal
• Atletico Madrid
• Munster
• Roger Randle
• Leinster

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PSG, Bayern, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Munster, Leinster

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