The sporting weekend with Off The Ball’s John Duggan & Tommy Rooney
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The Pat Kenny Show.
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Saturday and Sunday from 10am. On Newstalk. Conversation that counts. It's time to talk about the All-Ireland Senior Football Final happening today in Croke Park. I'm joined by John Duggan, presenter of the Ball Sunday, and Tommy Rooney is Off the Ball's GAA expert, and he will be at Croker. Morning, Tommy. Morning, Pat. Hi, John. Morning, Pat and Tommy.
What is the build-up to today's All-Ireland Senior Football Final?
Now, first of all, we'll talk to Tommy and you about the All-Ireland, but just some athletic news that's interesting overnight.
Well, Rashida Adeleke has booked her place at the European Championship in Birmingham. So she won the 200 metres of the national championships, 22.8 seconds. Now that's off her best part of 22.34. But Rashida has been having a hamstring issues recently. And look, I think she's just on the road back a bit from injury. She's pain free at the moment. She's only 23 years of age. Remember how amazingly she burst into the consciousness of our minds with the fourth Olympic Games, the 400 and the European silver medal. So... This is not going to be a year when she maybe wows us, but it's about building for the future. And she's still very young.
I mean, she had been running 400.
Yes.
She ran 200 yesterday. And maybe she's having second thoughts about whether 400 or 200 is her distance.
It's about being back in finals. Yeah. I don't think it matter what the distance is back in finals. Unfortunately, Charlene Maudsley pulled up in that race. Which is a bit of a worry. Yeah.
Which athletic headlines from overnight might affect Irish sport today?
But it's good to see Rashida back fit and healthy and winning.
All right, we'll turn to Croke Park then. And Tommy, I bet you're looking forward to this one. Oh, Pat, it's going to be fun.
It's going to be fun because Kerry and Mayo are two of the most feverishly, fervently supported counties in the country. There's something about football in Kerry and Mayo. We know Kerry are the kingdom, obviously. They're going for their 40th. But this yearning that the people of Mayo have for number four...
Now, I was on the streets of Dublin yesterday with some of the pals, and I met many Kerry people, and none of them, strangely, would begrudge Mayo a win, which I found quite extraordinary. Do you know why?
Because they're so cocksure themselves that they're going to win that. That's why. And to be fair, you can't really blame them. And just to be very clear now to anyone listening on the road up, obviously that is not something that I think will permeate the squad or the management team or anything like that. There's a difference between the players and the supporters.
I met a racing man who was down in Killarney. He said, you know, whatever the speculation is about Kerry being complacent, that's not how it really is in Kerry.
Not in the team. No. Now, the one thing I'd say is I was reading the Saturday Independent yesterday and the predictions of their sports writers are all very sharp and with it. And it's 13 points, 9 points, 8 points, 10 points, 11 points. And then two journalists had it at 4 and 5. So at least they have it a little close. But like of their panel of eight, their landslide carry victories. When Andy Moran, the Mayo manager in the press conference after the semifinal, took exception to a question from John Fogerty about whether the Mayo fans will enjoy it. the hype and the build-up or have they been burned by previous defeats? I won't say the exact word Andy said, but he took exception to the question and he said, why shouldn't they enjoy it?
And he said, is anybody in this room going to write that Mayo were going to win the All-Ireland? And Colm Keyes piped up and said, no. And he was right. Nobody is going to say that Mayo are going to win the All-Ireland. No one sane is going to say it because by every metric, they won't and they can't. But games are not decided on metrics.
Now, John, yesterday you were talking about that notion of Mayo, ever the bridesmaid, never the bride, and how some fun was made of that in Kerry.
Yeah, that to me is just a sideshow, that banner, that poster. Mayo's story, I just can't fathom what it would be like if Mayo won this.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:27
2
What is the build-up to today's All-Ireland Senior Football Final?
0:27–1:27
3
Which athletic headlines from overnight might affect Irish sport today?
1:27–5:25
4
Why are Kerry and Mayo described as feverishly supported counties?
5:25–6:55
5
How do supporters' expectations compare to the teams' mindsets for the final?
6:55–10:50