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The Boys We've Seen

Conor Heffernan & Jonathan Cooper

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This is a journey through Irish footballing history. Every week Conor and Johnny discuss a player or moment from the Republic of Ireland's history. Beginning with the 1992/1993 Premier League season, these two diehard fans have a simple purpose - to talk about every Irishman to grace the Premier League!
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Yesterday's Sports

Sports History Network

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Host Mark Morthier grew up in New Jersey just across the river from New York City during the 1970s, a great time for sports in the area. He relives great moments from this time and beyond, focusing on football, baseball, basketball, and boxing. You may even see a little Olympic Weightlifting in the mix, as Mark competed for eight years. Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network.
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A light-hearted take on many topics loosely related to Powerlifting. We cover training advice, coaching, nutrition, injury management, performance enhancing drugs, psychology, general sport science as well as featuring some of the finest strength athletes in Ireland and the world.
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Wrestling Resurgence presents: The Grappling Arts Podcast where we explore the craft of professional wrestling! Welcome to The Grappling Arts Podcast, where we celebrate the art of professional wrestling, explore wrestling practice, and dig deep into its rich and varied history. Throughout the series we bring you interviews with leading figures from within the independent wrestling community, as well as a variety of expert guests and contributors. Topics such a theatre, sport, storytelling, ...
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Before we break down the Oakland Raider's 1967 season, let’s take a quick look at their first seven seasons. Things didn’t look promising in their first three seasons, as the team won only 9 of 42 games. Things changed quickly in 1963 …
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Send us a text Replay: As Johnny is away and Conor is snowed under with the return to University we go bac into the archive to discuss how many great footballers Ireland has produced. Follows us on those socials boysweveseen on Instagram @boysweveseen on Twitter Or email us at boysweveseen@gmail.comDe către Conor Heffernan & Jonathan Cooper
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Before we break down the Oakland Raider's 1967 season, let’s take a quick look at their first seven seasons. Things didn’t look promising in their first three seasons, as the team won only 9 of 42 games. Things changed quickly in 1963 …
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I’m pretty sure that you will not have heard an interview with Tánaiste Micheál Martin quite like this one before. The man is great craic, full of funny stories and banter – it’s a side to him that we rarely get to see in the Dail and on current affairs shows, but we certainly get a taste of it in this episode. We talk about his love of impressions…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Muhammad Ali and Larry Holmes called him the hardest puncher they ever faced, harder than Joe Frazier, George Foreman, and Mike Tyson. Randall Tex Cobb said: “He hit so hard you felt it in your ankles.” The man they were talking about …
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Hello, sports fans, and welcome once again to Yesterday's Sports on the Sports History Network. Today's article will be a bit different. I will be joined by my friend and fellow 1970s Dallas Cowboys fan, Dave Depaola. Since we’re in th…
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Send us a text The great career renaissance since Paul McGrath? Captained Spurs, Newcastle and Birmingham, won two League Cups, two team of the year inclusions and forty plus Ireland caps. Are you not entertained?! Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Stephen Carr Follows us on those socials boysweveseen on Instagram @boysweveseen on Twitter Or email us at …
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What did it mean to be a Memphis wrestler? How did the East Coast companies run differently to the Canadian or West Coast ones? Was the territorial system more exciting for fans? Or was the WWE-ification of wrestling a better model? Join Conor and Jeff for another fascinating episode on how wrestling ran prior to the 1980s. We're back each and ever…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Hello, sports fans, and welcome once again to Yesterday's Sports on the Sports History Network. Today's article will be a bit different. I will be joined by my friend and fellow 1970s Dallas Cowboys fan, Dave Depaola. Since we’re in th…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Hello, sports fans, and welcome once again to Yesterday's Sports on the Sports History Network. Today's article will be a bit different. I will be joined by my friend and fellow 1970s Dallas Cowboys fan, Dave Depaola. Since we’re in th…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Hello, sports fans, and welcome once again to Yesterday's Sports on the Sports History Network. Today's article will be a bit different. I will be joined by my friend and fellow 1970s Dallas Cowboys fan, Dave Depaola. Since we’re in th…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY The 1976 Olympics were in Montreal, and the weightlifting started on July 18 and ended on July 27. The weight classes remained the same as they had at the 1972 Olympics. The clean & press was eliminated as a competition lift following …
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This week we Patrea Patrick about her critically acclaimed 2019 Bruno Sammartino Movie. Patrea's movie captured the majesty and skill of Bruno's career, as well as his unshakeable moral integrity. We sit down with Patrea for an awesome chat about wrestling, Bruno and life. Enjoy. We're back each and every month for another deep dive into the world …
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Whenever football fans talk about great teams of the past that failed in their quest to win the Super Bowl, the 1977 Denver Broncos get overlooked. Perhaps it’s because this was the team's first successful season in its 18-year existen…
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Send us a text Were you a Lounge player? Or a Pro-Evo head? What about the all-hallowed but rarely discussed This is Football Franchise? Join Conor and Johnny this week as they discuss the FIFA videogame franchise, how it changed football and not always, as we show, for the better. See Conor's longer form article for further reading 'It’s in the ga…
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This is one of my favourite interviews from last year. I’ve always noticed that rugby players, in particular retired rugby players, have brilliant stories to tell. There’s so much craic and mischief going on behind the scenes in the changing room and when they’re off on tour and then you and I are lucky enough to hear all about it, when a sufficien…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Weightlifting at the 1972 Olympics occurred in Munich, Germany, from August 27 to Sept.6. In 1969, the International Weightlifting Federation added two new weight classes: flyweight (52 kg), bantamweight (56 kg), featherweight (60 kg),…
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Join Conor and Jeff this week as they discuss Bruno's time in the WWE. What were the main rivalries, the main matches and, the behind the scenes stories of one of wrestling's most successful ever grapplers! We're back each and every month for another deep dive into the world of shorts and spandex. Check us out on Twitter too @GettingColour Yours in…
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Send us a text 9 goals in 26 games for the Republic of Ireland excluding 'THAT' goal against England in the infamous Lansdowne Riot match. This week Conor redeems himself as the Boys do a deep dive on striker David Kelly. Learn about his late start in football, opportunity to play for Bayern Munich (yes really) and his career ups and downs. Follows…
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ride a motorbike alone from the bottom of South America to the very top of North America? My guest on this episode did just that. Peter Murtagh, having retired from the Irish Times after decades of doing the work he loved to do, hopped on his motorbike, and spent eight months travelling 45,000 kms alo…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY The 1968 Olympics were held in Mexico City in October. The Weightlifting was held from October 17th to October 21st. Some call these Olympic Games the Autumn Olympics due to its later than usual start. The reason for the late start was…
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Send us a text Join Conor and Johnny this week as they provide a deep dive on new Republic of Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson. We explore the rise of the Icelandic National Team under his tenure, his so-so time at Al-Arabi and of course, his most recent job with the Reggae Boyz. We talk about his coaching philosophy, playing pragmatism, and his…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY The 1968 Detroit Tigers don’t seem to get talked about as often as some other great teams in MLB history. Perhaps it’s because they didn’t win two or three World Series in a row like many other teams have. It could also be because the …
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Send us a text Join Conor on a solo episode as we explore the first-ever League of Ireland season ... 1921/1922! This story has it all... nationalism... the War of Independence ... high-scoring games and terrible teams! Huzzah Follows us on those socials boysweveseen on Instagram @boysweveseen on Twitter Or email us at boysweveseen@gmail.com…
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In the 12 months since Tony Kelly was on this podcast, his life has completely transformed. The comedy character that he created at a house party over ten years ago, is now the central character in a feature film that has gone global, streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Prime. So Tony is back on the pod to tell me all about how it all happened and whe…
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Join Jeff and Conor this week as they discuss the early life and career of the legendary WWWF Champion Bruno Sammartino. Learn about his upbringing first in Italy under Nazi occupation, and then as an immigrant in the US. We next discuss his raw strength and athleticism which saw him excel first in strength sports and then in the political world of…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY Last week, we explored the illustrious careers of Paul Anderson and Tommy Kono. This week, we turn our attention to the legendary Ken Patera and the phenomenal Naim Süleymanoğlu, also known as "Pocket Hercules." Ken Patera, the first A…
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Send us a text From the archive as Johnny recovers from a stag and Conor recovers from life. In light of Duffer's current successes at Shels the Boys discuss the early career of one of Ireland's best, and most exciting, players. Enjoy! Follows us on those socials boysweveseen on Instagram @boysweveseen on Twitter Or email us at boysweveseen@gmail.c…
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I am a tennis nut. I have been playing and loving the sport since I was ten years old and continue to love it to this day. So I’m delighted to be joined on this episode by the best tennis player ever to come out of Ireland. Conor Niland played for many years at a professional level, he was coached at the tennis academy run by legendary coach Nick B…
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When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. HIGHLIGHTED SHOW: THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY Relive the greatest moments in sports every day of the year. From the triumphs to the tragedies, the first to do it to the last time it happened, the unbelievable to the strange, This Day in Sports H…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, host Mark Mortier welcomes a special guest, Dr. Conor Heffernan, lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Ulster University in Northern Ireland. Dr. Heffernan has written extensively on weightlifting, bodybuilding, powerl…
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Join Conor and Jeff this week as they discuss the strongest ever wrestlers. Does 'gym strength' count the most or is wrestling strength a separate category? We begin with legendary figures like George Hackenschmidt in the late 1800s and move all the way to the present with names like Cena, Henry and Strowman. Let us know what you think - who is the…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY The date was May 8, 1970: It was game 7 of the NBA Finals, between the LA Lakers and the New York Knicks. I was eight years old, and my brother was eleven. Both of us being Knicks and Willis Reed fans, this would soon become a game we …
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Professor John Crown is one of Ireland’s best-known and accomplished cancer experts. He has spent his entire career trying to improve outcomes for patients and fighting to improve the way Ireland’s health system works, so it was no surprise that, recently, John was crowned with the Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Medicine and Research Award from…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY When I first started competing in Olympic Weightlifting in 1981, I wanted to learn about the sport's history and the men who made it great. I read all the lifting magazines I could find, and one of the first lifters I read about was Jo…
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Brendan Ogle is one of Ireland’s best-known activists and trade unionists. Having fought Margaret Thatcher and her plans to privatise the railways in the UK, Brendan returned home to Ireland in the early 90s and has been fighting for workers’ rights and social justice ever since. He has now decided that its time to move from protest to politics, an…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY ***This episode was originally aired as episode 29 of Yesterday's Sports*** The 1972 summer games are the first Olympic games I can remember watching. The 1972 games were in Munich, West Germany. The last Olympics to be held in Germany…
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Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY I began watching Pro Football in 1969, probably sooner, since my father and older brother were sports fans, but I was too young to remember much of it. I turned seven in 1969, and that’s when I started watching with more interest and s…
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Laura and Rob are from very different worlds. Laura is a stand-up comedian and actress, best known The School and Bridget and Eamon on RTE. Rob is one of Ireland’s most successful Olympians, competing in five different Olympic games, and winning a gold medal at the Moscow World Championships. But together they present a very successful podcast call…
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