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Ciarán Murphy

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1092 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

This isn't serious.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

And if you've got this, you know, Gianni Brera is the Italian writer who's supposed to have said that the perfect game is nil-nil.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

because nobody made a mistake.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

And... Well, first of all, it's obviously not true.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

Yeah, but what happens when, like, oh, mistakes don't matter?

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

Like, what is this hippie bullshit?

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

Like, that's not what the world is.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

Like, this man, Gianni Brera, was shaped by war.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

You know, he fought for, he fought in the Italian army.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

Then he fought against the Italian army or against the German army as a partisan.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

I mean, you know, you have to, there's an element of going with the flow.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

But, you know, he survived the war.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

He boasted, I never killed anyone.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

I never killed another human being.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

But what he did do was he saw, he saw a lot of, he saw a lot of good men die, right?

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

He saw, he saw what happened.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

He saw, he learned it was in the marrow of his bones, what it meant when mistakes were made.

The Second Captains Podcast
What Makes Football Great?

And he saw goals conceded in similar kind of terms.