The Boys We've Seen

Send us Fan Mail There's too many Irishmen in the Premier League ... Send Helps! Man United have won the League and Leeds have gotten to the semi finals of the Champions League with Irish players playing a pivotal role in both campaigns. It's good to be the king eh?  Yes yes, join Conor and Johnny this week as they discuss the 2000/2001 season. World Cup 2002 is on the horizon, players a...

Send us Fan Mail My goodness Irish goalkeeper has had a fantastic career. Sit down with the Boys as they interview Joe Murphy, the Irish goalkeeper won won the u16 European Championship with Kerr's Kidds, was part of Aldo's swashbuckling Tranmere side and a man who saved a Michael Owen penalty in his first-ever Premier League match. Join us as we interview Joe Murphy as we discuss his ca...

Send us Fan Mail Good morning, Good day and Good night. Ireland are going to the World Cup and does it feel ever so good. After heartbreak in 1998 and 2000, Mick McCarthy has only gone and gotten Ireland to a major tournament. And the good news is, the Republic's two play off games against Iran went off without a hitch. No incidents or bad blood whatsoever. Oh who are we kidding? Listen as Co...

Send us Fan Mail Once... Twice.... Three times a hero! Join Conor and Johnny as they discuss the 2002 World Cup qualification campaign. At the third time of asking Mick McCarthy leads his charges to a major tournament, avenging the heartbreak fo the '98 and '00 campaigns. In a group of death with Portugal and Holland we manage to not only qualify for the playoffs, but finish a qualificat...

Send us Fan Mail Join Conor and Johnny this week as they discuss the remarkable story of former Ireland footballer, Eamonn O'Keefe. Born in Manchester in 1951, Eamonn appeared destined for greatness before a broken leg in a training match appeared to end his career. He regained fitness and form in the non-league before making a shock move to Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia. There Eamonn made friends...

Send us Fan Mail Join Conor and Johnny this week as they discuss Liverpool and Ireland legend Ray Houghton. Born in Castlemilk, Glasgow, Houghton is undoubtedly one of the most impactful of the 'Granny Rule' generation under Jack Charlton. He played in European Championships and World Cups, was ever-present in the Irish set up from 1986 to 1997 and scored two of the most iconic Irish goa...

Send us Fan Mail Conor and Johnny have decided to be humans this week and are away from the country and, in Conor's case, reliable Wifi. With that being said, we've decided to replay our most popular episode to date. The thing which started it all... the 1992 USA Cup! Tie Games! Join Conor and Johnny for the inaugural Boys We've Seen Podcast. In this episode our co-hosts set out the...

Send us Fan Mail And now for something completely different... Why did Bobby Charlton, George Best, Geoff Hurst, Gordan Banks and a host of other British footballing legends play in the League of Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s? Were they big money signings or money well spent? Join Conor and Johnny this week as they take a break from regular proceedings to discuss a strange trend in Irish foot...

Send us Fan Mail Jock Stein's last signing, an absolute goliath for the Republic of Ireland and, a man who saved Celtic on many an occasion... This week Conor and Johnny discuss the long career of Irish goalkeeper Packie Bonner. A one-club man for Celtic where he played over 600 games, Bonner was in sticks for the Republic's greatest-ever period under Jack Charlton.  He had incredible hi...

Send us Fan Mail 'We are the Champions.... The Champions of Europe! In 1998 the Irish u16s  won the  European championships with a team containing John O'Shea, Andy Reid and a host of other names familiar to the Republic. We beat Spain, Portugal, and Italy to boot! This came two months before the u18s won the European championship and is quite rightly seen as the special in the Irish you...

Send us Fan Mail The Magic of the FA is dead but Irish strikers are finally on form in the Premier League! Yes yes, join Conor and Johnny this week as they discuss the 1999/2000 season. New year, new you... New Millenium, new megastars! This is undoubtedly the best Premier League thus far from an Ireland perspective. Roy Keane is in the form of his life, David O'Leary's Leeds babies are...

Send us Fan Mail Kevin Moran won two All-Irelands with Dublin and two FA Cups with Manchester United. Not bad eh? Today's episode sees Conor and Johnny discuss one of Ireland's most talented, and fascinating players, Kevin Moran. Initially a GAA star with Kevin Heffernan (no relation)'s Dublin team, Moran signed for Man U while still a young man. There he played over two hundred gam...

Send us Fan Mail From 1990 to 2000, the Republic of Ireland featured five one cap wonders which, if we do say so ourselves, make up quite the decent 5-a-side team. Join Conor and Johnny as they discuss they five players good enough to play for the Republic of Ireland but who sadly failed to make it back for a second date. We'll discuss the cult hero goalkeeper good enough to play in a cup fin...

Send us Fan Mail Liam Brady, Steve Heighway, Frank Stapleton, Ronnie Whelan, David O'Leary... Ireland's squad for the 1982 World Cup campaign under Eoin Hand was undoubtedly the greatest collection of players the country has ever put together... or so say us! Managed by Eoin Hand, the Republic entered a group of death with European Championship runners up Belgium, the dying embers of the...

Send us Fan Mail Niall Quinn's Disco Pants are on Fire! Quinn equals Frank Stapleton's goal scoring record, Dominic Foley hits the ground running, Gary Breen comes into his own and Ireland nearly win a (major?) tournament. Yes yes everyone it is time to discuss the most wonderful of all international tournaments... the USA Cup.  Johnny, Conor and guest Cuán discuss the 2000 USA Cup. Comi...

Send us Fan Mail We're all melting thanks to the heat and Johnny is on form. Yes yes ya'll, its the year Man United win a historic treble! This week our Boys talk about United's once in a lifetime successes, the mastery of Roy Keane and Denis Irwin and, more importantly, the Irish stars slowly making a name for themselves in the Premier League.  Ireland have two... TWO ... players i...

Send us Fan Mail Keano, Keano, Keano .... no not that one! Join Conor and Johnny this week as they discuss one of Ireland's greatest ever footballers, Robbie Keane. Learn about his breakout season at Wolves in the First Division, his debut for the Republic of Ireland and big money moves to Coventry, Inter Milan and Leeds United. The young Robbie Keane was one of the most exciting players of h...

Send us Fan Mail Controversial times for our Boys this week as they debate the best Irish XI of the 1990s. Do we just choose Jack's World Cup teams from 1990 and 1994, or do we look to Mick McCarthy's younger squads from the end of the decade. Who was the best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder or Striker? Join Conor and Johnny as they engage in the very best (or worst) of Irish pub talk ....

Send us Fan Mail Initially bought for a bag of of footballs and appeared 88 times for a country he believed he didn't qualify for... Ladies and Gentlmen this week we discuss the hardworking, mercurial, and at times deeply controversial Tony Cascarino. Beginning his career in the non-league, Cass worked his way to top clubs in England, Scotland and France. More importantly, he set a then recor...

Send us Fan Mail Robbie Keane is on the scene and Niall Quinn is still a goal machine! Well... for the First Divison that is. This week our Boys talk about another an Arsenal double, a Premier League packed with Irish players... but no strikers, and a First Division were Irish players are hitting double digits on the goal tallies. What's more, we have an Irish player... a friend of the Pod Ga...

Send us Fan Mail 'We are the Champions.... The Champions of Europe! In 1998 the Irish u18s only went and won the blooming European championships. We beat Croatia, Germany, and Cyrpus. Okay it was only four games, and we lost 1-0 to England but a wins, a wins, a win . This was 'Kerr's Kids' at its very best. We featured Robbie Keane, Richard Dunne and a soon to be Juve bound Ron...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Mulhall has been following the Boys in Green since 1986 and boasts an encyclopedic memory of the team's successes and failures. Couple that with a near-complete collection of matchday programmes and a series of coaching licences and you make a pretty good superfan! Fans are an integral part of the international experience, especially for the Republic of Ireland. Join us...

Send us Fan Mail How many mirrors did Mick McCarthy break?!?! This week our boys talk about Mick McCarthy and the Republic's failed efforts to qualify for the 2000 Euros. In a group with Yugoslavia, Croatia, Macedonia and Malta, the path to Holland/Belgium seemed a tough one. That was, until we were top of the bleeding group! It all seemed so easy, a young Damien Duff and Robbie Keane were te...

Send us Fan Mail When Johnnys away, Conor will play! As Johnny goes galavanting across Europe to follow Elton John, Conor and guest Cuán discuss the 1996 USA Cup. This was Mick McCarthy (Big Mac)'s first tournament and also another nail in the McCarthy/Keane coffin. Here we discuss McCarthy's quest to get his first international win, a 2-2 draw with crowd trouble and a rare Niall Quinn r...

Send us Fan Mail "All you need is Duff, na na na na nahh, All you need is Duff, na na na na nahh" Join the boys this week as they discuss the early career of the young Damien Duff. A hot prospect from a young age, Duff was one of Ireland's most exciting youth prospects in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Signing with Blackburn in 1996, Duff spent seven years at Ewood Park before maki...