Aidan Fitzmaurice

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604 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Indo Sport · Czech-in from Prague on play-off eve | Ireland braced for make or break battle | The Football Show · 25 Mar 2026 podcast

a second division team out here, Ex-League Slip United, Ex-Undoc, Ex-Stoke City, and he plays for Ceska Budovice, who are about two hours away, second division team.

He said, nobody there cares about the game, there's nobody talking about it.

That's a Czech club, two hours from the capital, so there really isn't.

I think, you know, Seamus Coleman was asked earlier on today about the hurt that Irish teams feel, this Irish team feels from playoff defeats in the past.

I think the Czech nation is really still hurting from

The nightmare.

I mean, if you consider the pedigree of Czechoslovakia, European champions in 76, runners-up then in 96 as a newly independent Czech Republic, to lose to the Faroe Islands as they did and to struggle against San Marino, I think that relationship between the fans and the team here has been broken.

And I don't think that's being fixed.

And I do think that's something that Ireland can exploit tomorrow night.

Yeah, and that's why he's paid the big bucks.

And I wonder, when he's sitting down this evening with his staff, does he go in as a hon a little bit just to think about what worked for Iceland?

What calls did he make?

I asked him a question earlier on about two players, talked a lot about form and everything else.

And between them, Coleman and O'Benny have played, I think, 25 minutes, half an hour of football in the last four months.

So I think you make an exception sometimes of players like that.

One of the things I count against Vale is not just internationally and experience, but he hasn't played a huge amount of football

Sometimes when someone comes in late to international football, I think of people like Simon Fox or Simon Smodic or Liam Lawrence, when they come into the team, the debut is a big deal because they've played a lot of club football, if you get me, whereas Harvey Vale, he's had bits and pieces at Chelsea, bits and pieces on loan, and he's not, so he's 22, but he hasn't a huge body of work behind him, whereas O'Bene does.

So I think he will look to that and see.

Dan's right when he talks about a 120-minute game.

I think that's where his experience comes in because...

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