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They were never supposed to win the Champions League. They had a new manager in a foreign land, they lost Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard almost followed him. They were seconds away from elimination against Olympiakos, were up against it in Turin and in West London and that’s before we get to Istanbul, where Six Minutes of Magic helped lift Liverpool’s fifth European Cup.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – The Houllier Years
06:25 – A Miserable Season
11:10 – The Road to Istanbul
24:20 – Rafa’s Legacy
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The Boot Room was dead. Kenny Dalglish burned out. Now what was there for Liverpool? The Premier League was sneaking up on them, Europe was back and they needed to be in the mix to receive all the heightened riches, fame and glory that came with it.
Instead, it was a decade to forget in terms of trophies. In terms of entertainment value? Well, it was spicy to say the least: this is Anfield Spice—and Liverpool in the 90s.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – The Souness Years
05:40 – The Spice Boys
20:35 – The Legacy
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Any normal football club would’ve folded. A stadium disaster that left supporters dead, a European Cup final lost and the lineage of great coaches culled abruptly. 1985 was a formative year for Liverpool.
They had been carried by the weight of the Boot Room, through Shankly, Paisley and Fagan and were now picking up the pieces of a near 30-year footballing odyssey. What next? This is The Last of the Boot Room.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – The Rise of the Boot Room
10:25 – The Dalglish Years
18:45 – Hillsborough
26:35 – Legacy
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Total Football was dead. The eighties killed all hope, with its wing-back system, sweepers in the backline and rampant hooliganism and stadium disaster. Football needed a bit of light injected back into it, and so too did Ajax.
Johan Cruyff came back, and tried, but was quickly lured away by Barcelona again. Up step Louis van Gaal, a football war of philosophical ideas and Ajax’s Total Recall to the top of the European game.
00:35 - Since Total Football
04:30 - Total Recall
19:55 - Legacy
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Pele called football “The Beautiful Game”, Cruyff declared “winning is an important thing,” and Mourinho said “if you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank”.
Let’s forget about that last lunatic and focus more on the guy who said the second thing: Johan Cruyff. The leader of Total Football, the thoroughfare that explains the history of football tactics. This documentary hopes to explain the Totality of Total Football.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – How we reached Total Football
03:55 – How Ajax reached Total Football
07:20 – The Michels Foundation
17:10 – The Kovacs Success
24:35 – The Legacy
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The Champions League—i.e. good football—is finally back, except UEFA have decided to be wet wipes and change the future of the sport with their Swiss Model format change. So, we’re looking back instead and creating dozens of alternate histories from the CHAMPIONS LEAGUE! Let’s gooooooooooo.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – What if Juventus beat Real Madrid in 1987?
02:05 – What if Luis Figo scored the penalty v Juventus in 2003?
04:20 – What if Juventus qualified for the Champions League in 1999?
06:10 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2000?
07:50 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2009?
09:35 – What if Juventus qualified from the Champions League group in 2013?
11:20 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2002?
12:50 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2011?
14:10 – What if Lazio qualified for the Champions League in 2018?
16:20 – What if Inter beat Atletico Madrid in 2024?
17:55 – What if Torino won the UEFA Cup in 1992?
19:40 – What if Napoli beat Spartak Moscow in 1990?
21:30 – What if Napoli qualified for the Champions League in 2012?
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Rome both is and isn’t a football town. The people who live there might be crazy about the
sport but the clubs who also live there aren’t really that successful at the sport.
For a brief window in the late 90s and early 2000s, that changed. This is the story about when Rome ruled Italy, in a football sense of course, but only too briefly.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – Lazio
08:35 – Roma
14:30 – 1999/2000
21:35 – 2000/2001
28:55 – Legacy
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Napoli were just existing, living day-to-day with the survival in the jungle known as Serie A in the 1980s. Up north unimaginable glories and successes that never got handed down to the little people in the south of a country harshly divided in football.
All it took was one little genius to change Calcio forever. Napoli, the House That Maradona Built.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Napoli
04:45 – Diego Maradona
08:45 – Magica
18:45 – Legacy
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Italian football has a big three: Juventus, Milan and Inter. One’s successful back home,
the other more so abroad and the other… neither here nor there.
This is Inter Milan, a team that can dominate but often prefers to keep its success brief,
with long distances between. However, there was a moment—just one moment—when they
might just have been the best Italy had ever seen. And it is when Germany
controlled Calcio.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – Inter
05:40 – Trap
10:50 – The Germans
13:50 – Germany x Inter
23:25 – Legacy
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If you were told to mention the greatest teams in the history of Italian football you’d throw in clubs like Juventus, Milan, Inter, maybe even a Napoli or one from the capital. You’d mention players like Baggio, Platini, Zidane, Maradona, Totti and the like.
But they’re not the best Calcio ever seen. This is, and it’s the story of Il Grande Torino: the best football team you’ve never heard of.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – A Brief History of Italian Football and Torino
03:15 – Erno Erbstein
06:35 – Lucchese: The Blueprint
09:20 – The False Start
16:35 – When Torino Became Grande
23:35 – Il Grande Torino
31:05 – Up On Superga Hill
36:25 – Legacy
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Think of Italian football and you probably think of Juventus first. They’re the ones with the most Italian championships and their history is stacked with a litany of the world’s greatest to ever play football.
This is how they got to become Italy’s biggest football club. Through decadence, dominance and disasters: this is how The Old Lady grew up.
00:00 – Intro
00:25 – The Beginning of Juventus
04:55 – The First Great Juventus team
08:45 – The Decline
10:20 – The Void Left by Superga
14:35 – Il Trio Magico
30:20 – Legacy
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The transfer window is full swing, the happiest time of the year of those donning yellow ties on Sky Sports News and them weirdos who live for the June, July and January as opposed to the actual football being played on the grass out there.
To celebrate: we’ve got a compilation tape that’s busy asking ‘what if the transfer window went differently?’
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – What if Bryan Robson signed for Juventus?
05:30 – What if Marco van Basten signed for Juventus?
08:55 – What if Marco van Basten stayed at Ajax?
10:45 – What if Marco van Basten signed for Barcelona?
13:25 – What if David Beckham signed for Barcelona?
16:20 – What if Robert Lewandowski signed for Real Madrid?
19:50 – What if Dragan Dzajic signed for Real Madrid?
23:30 – What if Dragan Dzajic signed for Inter Milan?
26:45 – What if Georgi Kinkladze signed for Inter Milan?
29:35 – What if Georgi Kinkladze signed for Liverpool?
32:00 – What if Kevin Keegan stayed at Liverpool?
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EURO 2024 may
be over in real life, but the alternate realities from the tournament still
stew away. Here is a compilation tape of 10 ‘what if?’ scenarios from EURO
2024’s knockout stage.
00:25 – What if Frenkie de Jong wasn’t injured?
03:00 – What if Giorgio Scalvini wasn’t injured?
06:20 – What if David Alaba wasn’t injured?
08:45 – What if Joachim Andersen’s goal was allowed against Germany?
10:00 – What if Niclas Fullkrug scored against Spain?
14:00 – What if Thibaut Courtois played?
16:15 – What if Kylian Mbappe didn’t break his nose?
18:55 – What if Benjamin Sesko scored vs Portugal?
21:15 – What if Jude Bellingham didn’t score against Slovakia?
24:15 – What if Marc Guehi scored vs Spain?
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For the first time in eight years, England are searching for a new manager after Gareth Southgate stopped just minutely short of winning the nation’s first trophy once again. Naturally, for one of the most high-profile jobs in the sport, speculation is rampant about the man to succeed Southgate. So here are nine contenders that populate the mouths of supporters and the lists drawn up by the bookmakers.
What if the following people were the next England manager?
00:00 – Introduction
00:45 – Eddie Howe
04:35 – Jurgen Klopp
06:35 – Thomas Tuchel
08:45 – Mauricio Pochettino
10:45 – Lee Carsley
12:50 – Steve Cooper
14:55 – Graham Potter
17:00 – Frank Lampard
18:55 – Steven Gerrard
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EURO 2024’s fun and cuddly part is over. The group stages are gone, we’ve spent two weeks and a few dozen matches to eliminate eight teams. That doesn’t mean the groups are over, however. It lives on in our hearts, our heads and through this: the ‘what if?’ compilation tape of alternate scenarios from the EURO 2024 groups.
00:00 – Introduction
00:40 – What if Scotland received a penalty against Hungary?
01:30 – What if Scotland beat Switzerland?
04:15 – What if Niclas Fullkrug didn’t score against Switzerland?
05:45 – What if Rey Manaj scored for Albania vs Italy?
07:40 – What if Croatia beat Albania?
09:15 – What if Slovenia beat Serbia?
11:15 – What if Luka Jovic was onside vs Denmark?
12:35 – What if Christoph Baumgartner scored vs France?
14:15 – What if Xavi Simons’ goal vs France was allowed?
15:30 – What if Mike Maignan stayed on his line?
17:15 – What if Romelu Lukaku’s goals were all allowed?
19:20 – What if Saba Lobzhanidze scored against Czech Republic?
20:40 – What if Kerem Akturkoglu scored against Portugal?
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When the European Championship circles back around, we get strapped to the same tired chairs and we're forced to watch the same pictures again and again. We see Bukayo Saka, Darius Vassell and Gareth Southgate missing penalties, the
Icelandic thunderclap. The failures.
From Dzajic in ‘68, Netzer four years later and Pirlo in 2012: England have been beaten by class. From fighting in the stands in Rome, Phil Neville giving away a penalty and Graham Taylor substituting Gary Lineker: England have also been embarrassed.
They should have won it by now, shouldn't they?
00:00 – Introduction
00:45 – Paranoia: 1960-1976
05:35 – Problems: 1980-1992
11:30 – Promise: 1996-2004
17:10 – More Problems: 2008-2016
21:40 – More Promise: 2020s
25:15 – In Conclusion
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The reign of Spain only fell on the plain of the European continent. They had lost their global crown and were a shadow. Football had transformed drastically since Spain painted their pretty patterns all over Kyiv against Italy in the EURO 2012 final. High possession football was disposed of, in its place was gegenpressing.
It ruled Europe, first at club level when Germany's biggest clubs made up the 2013 Champions League final. The following summer, Germany won their fourth World Cup. EURO 2016 was a turning point, where tactical ideologies would collide. And oh yeah: the competition was even bigger than ever. This is EURO 2016.
00:00 – Introduction
00:50 – Road to France
07:00 – Group A
08:55 – Group B
11:40 – Group C
13:50 – Group D
16:25 – Group E
19:45 – Group F
24:10 – Knockout Phase
33:35 – In Conclusion
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Four years earlier, we had witnessed a potential greatest ever European Championship team when Spain won their second title. They only went and improved upon that, by becoming one of the world's best when they claimed the Jules Rimet trophy in South Africa.
Now, Spain were nailed on favourites to become one of the greatest teams ever assembled: club or international. Just who could feasibly stop them? Portugal were a one man band under Cristiano Ronaldo, but one hell of a band. Germany had the beginnings of an all-conquering team. Italy could be dangerous, Netherlands too—but the latter for your health. This is EURO 2012: and its greatest ever team.
00:00 – Introduction
00:45 – Road to Poland and Ukraine
09:35 – Group A
13:30 – Group B
18:15 – Group C
22:00 – Group D
25:50 – Knockout Stage
33:50 – In Conclusion
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The previous European Championship had been won by the rank outsiders in Greece. It felt like a partition between the old way football was played and a new age where anything was possible.
For one, there was no British or Irish involvement for the first time in 24 years and the World Cup finalists Italy and France were already on the wane. A void needed to be filled in this new European Championship, this film on EURO 2008 attempts to detail just what happened.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – Road to Austria and Switzerland
08:50 – Group A
14:05 – Group B
18:20 – Group C
26:10 – Group D
29:35 – Knockout Stage
36:15 – In Conclusion
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2004 was the European Championship of the Golden Generation.
The hosts Portugal and also Netherlands had two eras combining to create interesting dynamics, the esteemed nations of Germany, France and Italy experienced the final days of their empires, Spain were busy preparing to start their own empire and the plucky little English had a young squad seemingly destined for the very top.
But would it make for a great spectacle? It was certainly UNBELIEVABLE, as the title suggests.
00:00 – Introduction
00:35 – Road to Portugal
12:00 – Group A
15:55 – Group B
20:05 – Group C
26:35 – Group D
33:15 – Knockout Stage
43:40 – In Conclusion
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