One Day At A Time Football Podcast

The knockout stages have arrived. Sixteen teams entered this stage and eight would be gone in just four short days. Drama, upsets and goals all in store. On today’s show we have a very special guest on board in Ondřej Zlámal, a Prague based football writer who has fond memories of the 1990 World Cup as fan of Czechoslovakia during a momentous moment for his home nation and their football team. Tha...

Today wasn't just about the game between Ireland and the Netherlands, the build up had a big part in the story as well as the fallout from the 0-0 dour struggle with Egypt had spilled over into a row between Jack Charlton and Eamon Dunphy.  Rob Murphy, Ciaran O'Hara and Michael Foley are on today's show to look back on the 1-1 tie with the Dutch and all the drama that surrounded it. Joining t...

Scotland's journey had high points and low points but their performance against Brazil was full of courage and bad luck. Costa Rica were not short of courage either and had their luck too but above all else they had the fire power up front when it mattered.  On today's show our special guest is tv producer Kevin Corcoran, a Scottish fan who travelled to Italy to follow the Tartan Army and has...

The tournament continues with two further groups concluding and three of the eight teams getting ready for their flight back home. Host Rob Murphy and co Host Ciaran O’Hara are joined by Mick Foley and special guest Ewan McKenna from the Black Eye podcast to discuss Colombia’s emergence in this World Cup and the difficult truth of how the team was funded and inspired.  The podcast builds towa...

Group B came to a conclusion on June 18th as Romania fought back to earn a crucial point in Naples against Argentina while the Soviet Union exited the competition despite a stirring display against Cameroon.  Host Rob Murphy and Ciaran O’Hara take you through some of the stories on a day when Hagi met Maradona and neither player gave an inch. Meanwhile we also take a chance to focus on the je...

The first big hurdle in our project has arrived, the dubious honour of having to sit through what might well be the worst football game of the 1990 World Cup all over again fell to the feet of Rob Murphy, Ciaran O’Hara, Billy Joe Padden and Colin Sheridan.  Despite the unenviable challenge of re-watching Ireland’s 0-0 draw with Egypt, the quartet completed their mission successfully and can n...

There are three games to look back at on Day 9 but there's one story that seems to stand out, England's moment of reckoning with the media on their backs and form seemingly on a downward trajectory, the fear was a repeat of Euro '88 and yet, just when all seemed to be going array, the tide started to turn.  Join Rob Murphy, Ciaran O'Hara and Michael Foley as they look back at a day where Braz...

Czechoslovakia continue their momentum and book a place in the next round with a win over their central European rivals Austria while in the second game of the day, West Germany overwhelm the UAE. 30 years later, we find out that the consolation goal wasn’t as much of a consolation as we thought at the time.  Join Rob and Ciaran as they continue the journey, and considering it was a quiet day...

On today’s show author Dave Hannigan is our special guest as he joins, Rob Murphy, Ciaran O’Hara and Mick Foley to share his World Cup memories and review one of the busier days of the World Cup so far.  The panel look back at Yugoslavia’s hard fought and absolutely critical victory over Colombia; Roger Mila’s headline grabbing two goal performance against Romania and they focus in on the Uni...

Two games today and two hand ball incidents with very different outcomes. In Udine, Spain and Uruguay became the last two teams to begin their campaign and ended up deadlocked at 0-0 although Uruguay had a golden chance to win the game after Francisco Villarroya handled the ball on the goal line to prevent a certain goal. Rubén Sosa blew the chance to win it as he blazed the penalty.  The sec...

Join Rob, Ciaran and regular guests Colin Sheridan and Billy Joe Padden as they look back at an unexpectedly exciting day 5  with Belgium impressing in their 2-0 victory over a luckless South Korea and Egypt causing a sensation in Group F thanks to a late equaliser that earned them a draw with Euro '88 champions the Netherlands.

Former Irish international John Anderson and Newcastle podcaster and comedian Gavin Webster join the show as we look at the influence of the north east of England on today’s main fixture, with Sir Bobby Robson and Jack Charlton in particular in the spotlight for Ireland v England. There’s also a review of Costa Rica’s big day against Scotland.  

Goals all the way on the third day of action, as two of the competition favourites, West Germany and Brazil, kicked off their campaigns. Join Rob Murphy, Ciaran O'Hara and Billy Joe Padden as they look back at Czechoslovakia’s 5-1 triumph over the USA, Brazil’s  2-1 win over Sweden and West Germany’s 4-1 win over Yugoslavia.

The host nation enters the tournament and to mark the occasion hosts Rob Murphy and Ciaran O'Hara are joined by John Foot, author of Calcio - the history of Italian football, to set the scene for a country ready to showcase itself to the world. We’ve three matches to review as well. UAE v Colombia, Soviet Union v Romania and Italy v Austria.

The journey begins, join Rob, Ciaran and our team of match watchers, namely Billy Joe Padden, Colin Sheridan and Michael Foley as they look back at the opening game in the 1990 World Cup as Cameroon stun the World Champions in Milan with a 1-0 win in the San Siro . The opening ceremony, two red cards, bad goalkeeping and lots more to talk about. 

Italia 90 - One Day at a Time is a football podcast that aims to transport you back in time so you can relive the stories and the drama of a World Cup finals that changed the sport forever.  Hosted by Rob Murphy and Ciaran O’Hara with a team of regular guests, this series will take you on a journey through every match of a seminal world cup, re-living the games and unearthing  stories an...