98FM's weekly sports show "Now That's What I Call Sport" airs every Sunday morning from 9-10am.
Presented by myself Johnny Lyons, this week's show is broadcast on Sunday February 23rd and features the following guests :
1. Keith Wood - Woody looks back on Ireland's big Six Nations game against England in Twickenham where hopefully it all came together and we won !
Now here's the ideal scenario for all diehard Irish rugby aficionados : Wales do the business by beating France tonight in Cardiff, we slaughter the English at Twickers and it's all bets on for the Grand Slam !
And then the alarm goes off!
2. Ian Lawlor - Not the most well known of Dubliners but that might change soon as Ian is the only Irishman in Man City's Champions League squad and travels to the Nou Camp to play Barcelona in three weeks' time.
Ian definitely came out of stage left as pretty much no one had heard of him before his name mysteriously cropped up on the Sky Blues' list for Europe.
Well as Jamie Moore can tell you he's a big boy is our Ian !
Hitting the measuring tape at six foot 4 inches, 19 year old Ian has yet to make his debut appearance for City but they've high hopes for him at the Etihad Stadium.
But he certainly isn't in the cordon bleu department when he dons his apron - his views on the cooking of steak are definitely worth tuning into!
And potentially lethal!
In this case don't do as he says !
3. Colin Hawkins - Hawks' a former Irish Under 21 international who's now the manager of the Shamrock Rovers Reserves team which will create history when they play in the League of Ireland First Division for the first time this season.
Colly joins us live in studio for the hour.
Now where do I start with Colly - we go back a long, long way do Hawks and yours truly!
Suffice to say we were fully paid up members of the Saturday morning League of Ireland drinking club when Friday nights were first introduced!
Full members' registration list available on request and a large donation to charity!
Oh and there was the time in Malta - when I was able to shuffle the feet together in a way that reasonably represented a stab at running - when I joined in the Ireland Under 21's pre match warm up by jogging alongside Hawks on the cobbled streets of Valletta !
Now that one's a long, long story - but I did have the permission of the underage boss Ian Evans !!
The now 36 years old Colin enjoyed an illustrious career on the playing field including 4 League of Ireland titles with St Pats, Bohs and Shels, a League of Ireland Player of the Year title and an PFAI Young Player of the Year gong.
Colly was a rocksolid centre half in the Republic of Ireland Under 20 team which won bronze at the World Championships in Malaysia in 1997.
And - after one false start at the beginning of his career - he was a huge success under Gordon Strachan at Coventry City and subsequently became a cult figure at Brighton and Hove Albion.
4. Terry McAuley - It's the centenary year of the renowned Collingwood Cup competition which starts this year's version next week at UCD. As Chairman of the Irish Universities Football Union, Terry regales us with interesting titbits from the tournament's history over the last 100 years.
And boy are they some titbits!
For example, did you know that Bertram Collingwood - founder of the competition - was a nephew of the Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll?
So expect lots of Mad Hatter, Tea Party and Cheshire Cat references!
And the famous Cup has gone missing on at least two occasions.
Perhaps it's an anachronistic tale but - in 2000 after UCC had won - the trophy was found by police scuba divers at the bottom of the River Lee!
I wonder can our jingles whizzkid John O'Keeffe account for his movements back then!
We'll have another Cheltenham preview as we move closer to next month's Festival.
And we've another Irish rugby jersey to give away with thanks to Elverys.
Thanks,
Johnny.
