Listen here | The sack race is one of the few races nobody wants to win. It’s up there with the race to the front of the Paddy Power canteen queue on mushroom pie day. Christmas is just around the corner and there’s a few chairmen with itchy fingers looking across at the managerial guillotine. […]

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Padcast: O’Neill v Mancini – Who is due the boot?

Listen here | Manchester United are top of the league but defensively they are as flimsy than an IKEA flat-pack built without the instructions. They visit the champions Manchester City on Sunday in what, for dramatic purposes, we are dubbing a title-deciding six-pointer. Seven times in the league this season Manchester United have fallen behind only to […]

Gary Pallister exclusive: Alex Ferguson has to pick a number one keeper

Listen here | The 3-1 defeat away to Swansea may be seen by many as the result that signals the end of West Brom’s incredible run. The Baggies have been in irresistable form that sees them up to fourth in the Premier League and the Padcast lads aren’t writing them off just yet. ‘There are […]

Padcast: Don’t write West Brom off just yet…

Listen here | Roberto Di Matteo was brutally sacked by Roman Abramovich this morning and quicker than you can make a ‘fat Spanish waiter’ joke Rafa Benitez has taken the hot seat until the end of the season. The Guardian’s football reporter Dominic Fifield is on this week’s Padcast to throw his opinion into the mix following the brutal […]

Padcast: Rafa Benitez gets the nod as Chelsea manager

Listen here | Donegal GAA Senior football manager and 2012 All-Ireland winner Jim McGuinness but you might now him as the man the song ‘Jimmy’s winning matches’ is all about. The anthem has over 750,000 views on Youtube and was heard up and down the country for most of the summer. Now he has joined Celtic as a performance consultant in […]

Padcast: Will Jimmy be winning matches at Celtic Park?

Listen here | UK trainer David Pipe had an astonishing meeting at Cheltenham last year as he won the Paddy Power Gold Cup with Great Endeavour. The top trainer also had a three-timer on the opening day of the meeting and had a storming three days for the Pond House stables. David Pipe exclusively tells the Paddy Power Blog […]

Padcast special: David Pipe on why Grands Crus will take all the beating

Listen here | After 10 games in charge in his first season Brendan Rodgers has 11 points. At the same stage in their first respective seasons, Kenny Dalglish had 18, Roy Hodgson had 12 and Rafa Benitez had 12. Is it squeaky bum time on Merseyside? Anfield legend Jason McAteer thinks Rodgers just needs time. The former […]

Padcast: Jason McAteer on the importance of Suarez in the Rodgers Revolution

Listen here | The Daily Telegraph’s Northern football correspondent and Padcast favourite Mark Ogden is back on the show to look ahead to the big Saturday afternoon clash when Arsenal take on Manchester United. Last year’s game will go down as one of the best if you’re a United fan as the reds romped to an 8-2 […]

Padcast: Back goals galore at Old Trafford on Saturday

Listen here | The Breeders’ Cup is one of the richest two-day horse racing events in the sport with a staggering $25.5 million up for grabs across 15 incredible races. This year’s racing on Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3 at Santa Anita, Los Angeles, will have no shortage of drama as the European horses […]

Padcast special: Paddy Power’s tips for the Breeders’ Cup

Listen here | Manchester United haven’t won a Premier League game at Stamford Bridge in the last decade but former defender Gary Pallister thinks that will all change on Super Sunday. The United legend is backing the reds to beat Chelsea and fancies Javier Hernandez to play a major role in the capital. Pally tears into United’s defensive weaknesses and […]

Padcast: Why Manchester United are a great bet to beat Chelsea

Listen here | This is a very special edition of the Padcast we’re naming The Hoopcast. The lads are joined by Brian Gilmore of the fans group ‘The Celtic Underground’ to look ahead to Celtic’s daunting trip to the Nou Camp. Celtic are a whopping 25/1 to come back from Spain with three points and it would be fair to […]

Bonus Padcast: A Celtic special ahead of the Hoop’s trip to Barca

Listen here | Crunching tackles, miss-timed lunges and off-the-ball handbags. This sounds like just an average Padcast but this week it’s a whole lot more with two monster derbies coming up this weekend. Newcastle legend Mick Martin joins the lads to talk about Newcastle’s chances as the Toon Army head up to Sunderland in what […]

PADCAST: Back the Toon Army to win a fiery Tyne-Wear Derby

Listen here | International week is upon us which means there’ll be plenty of bobbins teams performing in competitive action on Friday night including San Marino, Cyprus and Ireland. The boys in green face a tough test as Germany come to the Aviva but the Padcast panel are confident that Trap’s army can come away with […]

PADCAST: Not even the luck of the Irish will be enough against Germany

Listen here | Games between Newcastle and Manchester United tend to produce plenty of drama with 31 goals in the last 10 Premier League clashes between them. Lee Ryder from the Newcastle Chronicle joins the Padcast to discuss everything on Tyneside including Alan Pardew’s bananas eight-year deal stretching to 2020. The Newcastle United journalist also explains why this is […]

PADCAST: We’re Ba-cking Demba to score against Manchester United

Listen here | Only eight years ago Leeds were playing top flight football and it wasn’t long before then when they were in a European semi-final. How the great shall fall. Leeds were financially ruined and plumeted to the third tier of English football but there is a revival in Yorkshire. Leeds are battling for promotion […]

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