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What recent drama surrounds Tiger Woods?
This is an Irish Independent Podcast.
Hello, everybody, and welcome to this Tuesday episode of Bits and Bobs. And well, there's a new sheriff in town. I'm making some changes today. I've knocked in a few walls. I'm repainting a few rooms. Think of me today as your neighbor who unveils this massive new extension without asking for planning permission. But hopefully it all goes well in the end. Will Slattery here with you. Delighted to be joined for this maiden voyage of a Will Slattery-helmed Bits and Bobs by Conor McKeown. Should we change the name? Someone said Bills and Bobs, maybe? That's all right.
Yeah.
Yeah. And John Green, the indoor sports editor is also here. How are you, John? Good, Will. It's been an interesting experience sitting in the Joe Malloy role today with all the prep. I have all these sheets, as you can see. I'm often commenting on a number of sheets, Joe has. Now I understand the necessity for it when you were kind of in charge of bits and bobs. It's easy for you to. You just rock in, you sit down. You just, like Conor's leaning back, you know, his first wisecrack, locked and loaded, ready to go. When you're sitting in this seat, it's very, very different.
He's very edgy, isn't he? He's very, very edgy. I'm on edge. What's going to happen now when you get the Virgin gig if Joe's mopey dick one of the days or something like that?
If it comes with Joe's salary, I'll make it work. Sadly, today I'm unfortunately having to make do with my own. Ireland versus North Macedonia tonight, guys. 7.45pm, the playoff losers friendly. Macedonia got me thinking, do you guys know the name Goran Stravrevski? No. Neither of you remember it. October 9th, 1999. Ireland are leading 1-0. The game goes into injury time. Euro 2000 place is in our graph. This is the goal scorer? This is the guy who pops up. And I am not trying to age anyone on this podcast here, but as a member of the coveted 18 to 34-year-old demographic just clinging on by my fingernails, October 9, 1999, I was probably playing like Super Mario on the N64 and not glued to this match. But Goran Serevsky stepped up, scored a goal in injury time to make Ireland go into a playoff against Turkey, which they subsequently did in the Meritron match.
Like, the idea that Ireland were, like, seconds away from qualifying automatically and conceded this goal, was this, like, the most crushing moment? Like, well, I don't know if either of you remember this well. Like, was this, like, a national tragedy? If this happened now, I feel like we would have a week worth of podcasts and we'd be crying.
We've had so many national tragedies.
But this one, like, Ireland... I don't think Ireland have ever been closer to qualifying until Goran Stravrevski, whose name, as you guys couldn't even remember, like... Any recollections strongly of this?
No, we were in that strange kind of half space at that time where we didn't really know where we were any good again. It was before, like, 1999, that was before Duff and Robbie Keane and Richard Dunne, even John O'Shea. So I think that was kind of the dregs of, the dregs of the kind of last... Last team around.
Had to be qualified for so many tournaments at that stage that it didn't like make an imprint because I feel like that should be that should be like a national scar.
What had we done? We had three tournaments at that stage under our belts.
Yeah. Missed out in 98 in the playoff to Belgium and then literally seconds away from qualifying for Euro 2000. What age were you in October 9th, 1999? 16. Oh, a young fresh-faced teenager. I was 7. John, you were? 26. 26. Were you working in the Indo at the time?
I actually was, yeah.
What were you doing then?
I was a down-table sports sub.
How do Ireland fans express their anger after the playoff exit?
They don't make them anymore, do they? They do not.
There's one fan who raises an interesting question with these bonds that we're referring to there. And he said, the subject line is, am I the baddie? And this is from Jimmy. Hi, Joan Coe, love the show. Just wanted to know if it's okay to be dot, dot, dot angry. I came back from a rollercoaster a couple of days in Prague last Friday, and I'm still coming to terms with it all.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What recent drama surrounds Tiger Woods?
0:01–3:11
2
How do Ireland fans express their anger after the playoff exit?
3:11–6:11
3
What insights does the Rory McIlroy documentary provide?
6:11–15:59
4
How is Eddie Hearn expanding into rugby management?
15:59–16:53
5
Who is Henry Pollock and why is he significant in rugby?
16:53–17:23
6
What challenges do rugby players face in gaining mainstream recognition?
17:23–19:01
7
How does the discussion reflect on the culture of rugby and media?
19:01–19:39
8
What future opportunities lie ahead for Henry Pollock?
19:39–53:27
Speakers
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