Tales From The East Stand Gary Parsons & Karl Reilly

Tommy Tormey and Justin Mason are back in the Four Provinces to take us through the 1993/94 title winning season under Ray Treacy, Rovers' only major trophy in the 22 years between Milltown and Tallaght, and 1994/95 with the fallout of the departures of Geoghegan, Byrne and Eccles.

There's a horrendous Richmond repeat, Gary O'Neill begins his defence of his Questions From The East Stand trophy against Graham Burke, and Hannah Dunne interviews Athlone Town women's manager Ciarán Kilduff on memorable European nights with Rovers and Dundalk, as the Champions League draw sends us to Iceland again. Meanwhile, we go from Cologne to Frankfurt as Alan O'Neill, Eoghan Rice (Noel Campbell in the Bundesliga) and three Hoops Scene contributors, Ciarán Gentleman, Macdara Ferris and Fiachra Ó Brolacháin, continue our German football series.

We round up the last fortnight of news with two postponed games and two great goals in Drogheda, pit Aaron McEneff against Darragh Nugent in the quiz and look ahead to next week's Champions League draw with the help of Ryan McDyer. It's 36 years to the day of the win over England in Stuttgart, so a trio of Rovers fans, Mick Kearns, Jim Conroy and Phelim Warren provide a first hand account of Ireland's first ever tournament in Germany. There's interviews with former Hoops captain Paul Whelan, whose brother Ronnie scored that amazing volley in the next game against USSR in Hanover, and Steven Scragg, author of a new book, "Euro 88: The Football Purists' European Championship".

An obscenely long show because of our ongoing German series, but with two weeks to digest it. This time we feature Bayern Munich, as Macdara Ferris reads his article on Rovers' Cup Winners' Cup tussle with Beckenbauer and co. in 1966, and John 'Dikie' Doyle, a club member of Bayern and a fan of the German national team since the 1970s, tells his story. All that plus Lee Grace and Trevor Clarke in the quiz qualifiers, and May's TFTES Hotline with a Tallaght, Germany, elections, ice-cream and haircuts theme, and the vast majority of our XI hail from D24.

We have Dundalk and Derry recaps (the latter is much longer), and Aaron Greene vs Neil Farrugia in the quiz, before the second week of 'Tales From Deutschland'. There's another edition of the Members Corner with Sam, who for the past seven years has lived in Hamburg, our featured team. Con Murphy tells the story of Hamburg and West German legend Uwe Seeler coming out of retirement to score two goals for Cork Celtic against Shamrock Rovers in 1978. Seeler spent nearly all of his life in a town called Norderstedt, the birthplace of Leon Pohls, who tells us about growing up there and supporting HSV and Germany in the World Cup.

We talk the Pat's game, and Harry's quiz is back with Pico Lopes vs Sean Kavanagh before our German football series gets underway. Eoghan Rice has a piece on Rovers' win over Schalke in the 1969 Cup Winners' Cup, and there's the Members Corner with Mick Brazil, a Cork-based supporter who started following Rovers in the same year and was at that European first leg at a foggy Dalymount Park, and couldn't see a thing. Plus, looking ahead to Oriel Park tomorrow, Winston meets the founder of Ireland’s only Schalke supporters club, Kevin Orzesek, who lives in Dundalk.