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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an Irish Independent Podcast.
Now, welcome, as you know, Arsenal, since Tuesday, back in a Champions League final. And as of last night, PSG, the first reigning defending champions to reach the final since... Will?
Real Madrid?
Correct, in 2018.
What recent achievements have PSG and Arsenal made in the Champions League?
The only team to retain the title in the Champions League era, which is crazy.
I was surprised Barcelona had not done it, somewhere in there. But that is true, only Real Madrid have retained the Champions League this century, PSG bidding to do. Likewise, Arsenal... you sort of feel the way this final is going to go, just literally standing in their way, defending for their lives, which they're very capable of doing. So last night was not the bonanza that the first leg was. As Barney Ronay wrote in The Guardian, well, it was never going to be quite the same. You only get one all-time high, one first kiss, one catcher in the rye, which begs the question, well, your first kiss? No, don't go there. I haven't read Catcher in the Rye either. What? No, I must get around to it. My English teacher, Joe Buckley, and it wasn't even on the curriculum.
He said one day, I always remembered it in sixth year. I was heading off for the summer. And he said, by the way, gents, your education is not complete until you read Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye. And that very summer, I sat down with J.D. Salinger. And was it good? Oh, yeah. Was it good?
He never wrote another book.
I don't think.
I don't know. Did he not disappear into... Or maybe he wrote books and just disappeared into kind of... Certainly a recluse. Yeah, certainly a recluse. Can I have one quick English digression? Please. Seeing as we've had Patrick Kavanagh already this week. This is what I wanted to bring up. This is... I had a dream last night that I was reciting Patrick Kavanagh poetry. That I was sitting in a room reciting Patrick Kavanagh's epic. And I got a round of applause at the end.
What makes PSG a strong contender for retaining their Champions League title?
And then I woke up and realised it was... You like inceptioned my dreams with this Patrick Kavanagh. Beautiful rendition of Advent on the most recent Brits and Babs.
And were you reading on the podcast or just to a live audience?
To a live audience. I was kind of like standing on a stage with this kind of projecting into the room and people loved it.
Well, no doubt. I kept reading that Barney Rene piece and as he can sometimes do, he said things beautifully and made me think... Yes, that's exactly what I'm, you've articulated what I'm thinking. So he said, PSG proved again what was already true. This is the best team in the world. The state of the art, so smooth, surgical and handsomely tuned that they could almost be an AI simulation of perfect human football movement. This PSG has become a team without flaws, only strengths, high spec parts in every role. That thing about smoothness, you know, and high spec when Carver Skellier first time touch and spin and he's in. There is a smoothness and a high specness to that, which is truly breathtaking.
Kavarsha Kelly in particular, it's just every time I see him, I'm just so blown away by how good he is. Not to say that he doesn't get a lot of credit because he does. but God I would put him up against anyone in the world at the moment the way he's playing he's an absolute handful but what really impressed me about them last night is after that early moment of attacking fluency they did create a couple more chances but they were so robust defensively like we were talking about Atletico the night before and how they didn't really offer much I thought PSG the way they defended and kind of shut down some of Bayern's key men who had been lethal up to now was almost as impressive for me it was another side to them that I hadn't seen that they didn't maybe need to show last year when they romped to victory but that was mightily impressive yeah it really was they are a complete team and I think
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:18
2
What recent achievements have PSG and Arsenal made in the Champions League?
0:18–1:44
3
What makes PSG a strong contender for retaining their Champions League title?
1:44–13:31
4
What were the key moments in the Bayern PSG match and its implications?
13:31–17:08
5
What are the criticisms surrounding the referee's performance in the Bayern match?
17:08–59:50
Speakers
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