Are You Not Entertained?

The boys talks about coronavirus and sport, and where the dominoes will fall. The unfairness of gender fluid sports, and drugs cheaters revisited. Adam Levine and Sharapova. Magnificent sports rage cursing from Jim McLean to F1. The usurping of the BDO and disruption lessons from the Hearns family. Boxing costumes and denim fashion disasters. And Rocky revisited with ice hockey goaltenders.

The lads welcome football insider Duncan Castles to discuss the seedy underbelly of football. Wee Jim and bribery in Rome, pushing the drugs envelope in Brescia, Ollie’s awfully cosy agent, and “gaming” FFP on a grand scale. Does UEFA have an “out shot”?  Very candid. 

This week, the World Number One golfer Rory McIlroy is welcomed onboard The pirate ship The Rive Gauche by "Captain” Giles Morgan and his ill-tempered parrot Leanne.  What follows is a light-hearted 35 minute chat around the galley table and where Rory shares his passion for Manchester United, Ulster Rugby and who his heroes were growing up in Northern Ireland.

The boys (nervously) laugh at the absurdity of politics and sport including: the best Presidential insults; floating mulligans; forgetting your nation’s anthem; diddy internationals; the rate card for holding Avuero‘s hand; and the future of pensioner’s baseball. If you don’t laugh you’d cry!!

With Grant (009) in absentia saving the world, Roger and Giles "The Captain" play host to the wonderfully elegant and smart Caroline Rowland. From bidding for big sports events to content that now works a new decade, THIS is a fantastic fresh perspective from a person who has absolutely influenced the sector for the last 15 years. 

Giles "The Captain" Morgan invites Irish Rugby Union legend, Brian O'Driscoll, to sit down to the captain's table. Brian tells us the unique nature of being a fan of Gaelic football in Ireland, why stadium burgers are best avoided at live events, where the most terrifying place to be on a golf course is, and how talent is something that you need to be a truly great chef.  All this tasty stuff and much more on The Captain's Table.

Our own Saint and Grievesy go well off the beaten track this week discussing twerking and satanism in sport. In theory a discussion on the superbowl, Barstool, Kobe, Rick Rubin and WWE, new golf leagues, the FA Cup, the Maldini dynasty and learning ethics with Saracens. But they got sidetracked. 

The lads chat with Nathan Homer from NowTV (SKY) and debate very very honestly which sports aren’t going to make it as the economics of sports changes. Astonishing!  What sports need to do to survive, with Nathan explaining what was done “inside the ropes” at the Ryder Cup.  And a diversion into Ben Stokes, 25 years after Cantona. What do we want in our sports heroes? And what do sponsors want?

This week, Giles "The Captain" Morgan welcomes British sports Tv & Radio broadcaster Mark Pougatch to The Captain’s Table.  A light-hearted 35 minute chat around the galley table where Mark shares his passion for football, cricket, England, rum and Sussex County Cricket Club.

The boys have a bitter sweet discussion around cheating, the purity of sport, and the lack of perspective in the woke society. From the beauty of the manchild Totti, to the macho belligerence of Koepka. It’s the art v science, good v evil, episode.