Episode 3668: Israel 0-3 Ireland - 28/09/26

Does

it matter, though, in the grander scheme of things, whether or not Ireland actually won the game of football tonight?

Well, football never matters in the grander scheme of things.

Like, frankly, it never matters.

From the point of view of the Ireland team, from the point of view of the feeling in the team among the squad in terms of what will happen on Thursday when they play at home for the first time since all of this shitshow.

yeah i think it does matter it i think it definitely matters too i mean it matters a lot it certainly seemed to matter a lot to the manager who we've just seen um in the in the press conference yeah i

guess there are two two different parts to that question it's it's a fixture that never should have gone ahead that we've talked about ad nauseam and for anyone who felt strongly that it shouldn't have gone ahead whether Arden won 3-0 or lost 10-0 doesn't actually make any difference what you're talking about is more the feel within the squad which if a defeat had been layered on top of everything else all the tensions that we know have been at play over the last couple of days probably would have been magnified and it's a different feeling I still think it's going to be a very interesting few days to see what happens with some of the other players who voted against actually fulfilling this fixture because we've got another one to come next week But there's maybe a slightly different glass there when they've actually got the feeling of winning a football match.

I think there is, you know, I mean, because I was sitting watching it and I felt the result here does feel important to me.

You know, I know that over the last while it's been like the result doesn't matter.

The six points are insignificant.

There's a much bigger issue at stake.

you know and that's that's all that's all true but if you're playing the game if the game is on in front of you it suddenly becomes it's important it's better to win this game than to lose it and they gave a performance which i was not expecting grimly focused um i've honestly i haven't seen an arch team express that superiority over an opponent ever I honestly can't remember the last time.

I mean, I've seen us beat Gibraltar 7-0.

You know, I've seen Ireland sort of play well, have spirited performances.

I mean, Israel were not a good team.

But in terms of the way that they dismantled the Israeli team here inside 25 minutes, I don't remember seeing that.

In the circumstances, that was an interesting thing to see.

I don't know.

Yeah, there was obviously some nonsense being written in the Israeli press.

I mean, Haaretz, which is one of their top newspapers, had some insane article.

In fact, I was reading it thinking, is there some kind of satire element here that I'm not quite picking up? Because this is kind of so strange.

This is the one with the headline, Hamas out Ireland in Israel's next wars on the soccer field.

Yeah, it was by, like, Alan Edan, and we figured out long ago they don't like us, the Irish.

What do they call that? What do we call that here? Pro-Palestinian.

Then their national team coach, Hamer Hallgrimson, came up with this instant little gem, mentions Hallgrimson's controversial... genocide remark.

Does

it matter, though, in the grander scheme of things, whether or not Ireland actually won the game of football tonight?

Well, football never matters in the grander scheme of things.

Like, frankly, it never matters.

From the point of view of the Ireland team, from the point of view of the feeling in the team among the squad in terms of what will happen on Thursday when they play at home for the first time since all of this shitshow.

yeah i think it does matter it i think it definitely matters too i mean it matters a lot it certainly seemed to matter a lot to the manager who we've just seen um in the in the press conference yeah i

guess there are two two different parts to that question it's it's a fixture that never should have gone ahead that we've talked about ad nauseam and for anyone who felt strongly that it shouldn't have gone ahead whether Arden won 3-0 or lost 10-0 doesn't actually make any difference what you're talking about is more the feel within the squad which if a defeat had been layered on top of everything else all the tensions that we know have been at play over the last couple of days probably would have been magnified and it's a different feeling I still think it's going to be a very interesting few days to see what happens with some of the other players who voted against actually fulfilling this fixture because we've got another one to come next week But there's maybe a slightly different glass there when they've actually got the feeling of winning a football match.

I think there is, you know, I mean, because I was sitting watching it and I felt the result here does feel important to me.

You know, I know that over the last while it's been like the result doesn't matter.

The six points are insignificant.

There's a much bigger issue at stake.

you know and that's that's all that's all true but if you're playing the game if the game is on in front of you it suddenly becomes it's important it's better to win this game than to lose it and they gave a performance which i was not expecting grimly focused um i've honestly i haven't seen an arch team express that superiority over an opponent ever I honestly can't remember the last time.

I mean, I've seen us beat Gibraltar 7-0.

You know, I've seen Ireland sort of play well, have spirited performances.

I mean, Israel were not a good team.

But in terms of the way that they dismantled the Israeli team here inside 25 minutes, I don't remember seeing that.

In the circumstances, that was an interesting thing to see.

I don't know.

Yeah, there was obviously some nonsense being written in the Israeli press.

I mean, Haaretz, which is one of their top newspapers, had some insane article.

In fact, I was reading it thinking, is there some kind of satire element here that I'm not quite picking up? Because this is kind of so strange.

This is the one with the headline, Hamas out Ireland in Israel's next wars on the soccer field.

Yeah, it was by, like, Alan Edan, and we figured out long ago they don't like us, the Irish.

What do they call that? What do we call that here? Pro-Palestinian.

Then their national team coach, Hamer Hallgrimson, came up with this instant little gem, mentions Hallgrimson's controversial... genocide remark.