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December 12, 2024 • 22 mins
Think of Scottish football teams, I dare you. You’d go Celtic, Rangers then you’d be forced to go to an Aberdeen, Hearts or Hibs. But let’s not forget about Dundee. And then you’d probably think of the Dundee United team of the 1980’s that did so well in Europe. But no, we’re not doing them today: we’re covering the Original Lisbon Lions of DUNDEE FC: a pioneer for Scottish football.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – A History of Dunde...
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December 11, 2024 • 20 mins
Before Steaua Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade there was another team flying the flag for Eastern European in the European Cup. Whilst they might be the less famous Belgrade team, it was in fact Partizan Belgrade who became the first European Cup finalist to hail from the East in an antidote to the rampant success that came from Madrid, Lisbon and Milan. This is how they did it.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – History
04:30 – Eternal
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December 10, 2024 • 23 mins
We owe quite a lot of how modern football is played down to one man. The pressing, the energy, the fitness, the team ethic: everything your favour managers here in the mid-20’s espouse, the majority of which we can thank a long forgotten Ukrainian by the name of Valeriy Lobanovskyi. This is the story of the man that not only changed football in Ukraine but the world over.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – 1975
08:10 – 1986
12:10 – 1988...
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December 9, 2024 • 25 mins
The top table of European football is a closed shop now, we all know that. Getting your hands on the big-eared Champions League trophy is only the preserve of teams from the Big 5 European leagues that aren’t from France. It wasn’t always this way. This video charters the rise of the two teams who won the trophy from Eastern Europe: Steaua Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – 1986: Steaua Bucharest
11:55 –...
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December 8, 2024 • 25 mins
Wolverhampton Wanderers fans need some good news after this year. Unfortunately, I can’t give you anything but sheer nostalgia. In this Issue of videos about some of European football’s greatest ever teams, we couldn’t ignore Wolves under the management of Stan Cullis. Perhaps the most influential European football team ever.
00:00 – Introduction
00:20 – A History
05:20 – Best in the World
19:25 – A Legacy
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November 21, 2024 • 31 mins
Don Revie had made Leeds United the best football team in the country in the 1960s and 70s. Upon his departure, Leeds had ‘done a Leeds’ multiple times since and after numerous financial disasters they were a generation out of the top flight. They needed somebody to come along and pick them out of the mire. So, they went Loco and it got back to the Premier League.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – Since Revie
07:00 – Loco Leeds
24:55 –...
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November 20, 2024 • 31 mins
Don Revie built the foundations of Leeds United. They were back in the big time, they’d got their first shot across the bow with a title challenge and an FA Cup final and now they’d built up a reputation. Dirty Leeds were here, and they just might have been the best team in England.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – Back in the Big Time
09:05 – European Endeavour
25:15 – Legacy
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November 19, 2024 • 26 mins
Regardless of where they might lie in the English football pyramid: Leeds United are a big football club. This is the objective truth no matter your club allegiances in the year of 2024. Rewind 70 years they were nothing. They weren’t even as good as Huddersfield Town and even Bradford City had won an FA Cup. And that’s in their West Yorkshire boundaries. Then Don Revie turned up: This is the BIRTH OF LEEDS.
00:00 – Introduction
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November 18, 2024 • 28 mins
Ipswich Town were champions in 1962 but that was quite literally consigned to what little black and white footage existed of it. The Tractor Boys were ploughing their own future back in Division 2, trying to find their place, wondering if they could ever get back to those famous days. And FROM THE FARM they made it back: this is Bobby Robson’s Ipswich.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – After Ramsey
02:00 – Bobby Robson’s Ipswich
22:20 ...
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November 17, 2024 • 26 mins
Ipswich Town have been a breath of fresh air upon their Premier League return but it is widely accepted that they’ll probably go down this season. Today we’re covering Ipswich, but in a more innocent time, when they could get promoted to the top flight of English football and do some magical things. This is NOWHERE TO CHAMPIONS, The story of Alf Ramsey’s Ipswich Town.
00:00 – Introduction
00:25 – History
02:45 – Alf Ramsey’s Ipswi...
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October 31, 2024 • 25 mins
The Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago this month. To celebrate, we’ve cobbled together a few stories from the history of East German football. First off: what better way than to celebrate East Germany’s one appearance at the World Cup in 1974.
Then, we’ll take a look at each of the nation’s three European finalists before the civil war between BFC Dynamo and Dynamo Dresden that took place in the 1980s. This is Behind the Wall: Tales f...
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October 29, 2024 • 23 mins
The Champions of Europe just drip off your tongue, don’t they? Real Madrid from Spain, Milan from Italy, Manchester United from England and Bayern Munich from Germany. There’s been a few you might not know of from lesser leagues but today’s video is about THE Forgotten Champions: Hamburger SV, a team from a big nation who played against the best teams and were crowned Champions of Europe.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – History of HSV
05:1...
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October 28, 2024 • 25 mins
We all love Der Klassiker, don’t we? When the biggest German sides battle it out: Bayern Munich and Borussia Monchengladbach.
Wait, you expected to see another Borussia didn’t you? Whilst Dortmund and Bayern participate in the game known as the Klassiker now, it isn’t the Original Klassiker. No chance, because in the 1970s Bayern’s fiercest rivals were Gladbach, and they were competitive in a way that Dortmund have never been.
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October 27, 2024 • 27 mins
Red Bull gives you wings, as the marketing strapline goes. Certainly, Red Bull has had the ability to give wings to several non-descript football clubs you might never have heard of: from the MetroStars to Austria Salzburg and SSV Markranstadt. But have they given football the wings to fly away from tradition and community that it was founded on, to create something rotten to the core?
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Salzburg
03:10 – New Yo...
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October 24, 2024 • 24 mins
There hasn’t been a more unbelievable rise in modern day football from continental Europe. At the start of the 21st century, Union Berlin were broke, they were in the fourth tier and they needed their fans to re-build their stadiums. But since, they’ve got up, up and up right to the summit of the Bundesliga and have participated in every UEFA competition. This is the story of how they did it.
00:00 – Intro
00:30 – Eisern Union
04:...
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October 14, 2024 • 26 mins
The Czechs have been successful at the top of international football: precisely four of them that made up their 1976 European Championship squad. Since the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, not so much.
Except for two glorious summers that straddled the new millennium so delicately. This is the story of a new age of Czech football, of 1996 and 2004, the Outsiders of Europe’s Twin Peaks.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – A Successful Hist...
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October 12, 2024 • 24 mins
Despite being known as the European Brazilians, Yugoslavian football had a habit of being nearly men. But in the late 1980s, when the country was at breaking point, they were blessed with the greatest crop of players ever. They won the world youth championship, almost won a World Cup and, for the majority of their players, got to taste European Cup success in the Final Days of Yugoslavia.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – A Substantial...
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October 10, 2024 • 26 mins
In the early 1990s, Croatia were one of a new band of nations admitted into international football after the dissolutions of multiple European republics. Whilst the rest of them stuttered and failed, Croatia prospered and became one of the great stories of the late 20th century.
This is the story of the Birth of Croatia, in a football sense, and the rise of the Dark Horses of International Football: the great Croatian team of 1996...
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October 8, 2024 • 31 mins
Wales, the red-headed stepchild of British football. They could never have the glory or expectation of England, they couldn’t even lay claim to the history or moments of hope that belongs to Scotland.
When England were winning the World Cup, when Scotland were going to major tournaments: Wales watched them on the telly. They spent a literal lifetime in the wilderness, between 1958 and 2016. This is a film about those times.
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October 6, 2024 • 38 mins
1970 meant the most colourful spectacle on Earth: the FIFA World Cup held in Mexico. England were reigning champions, Brazil had a lad called Pele, Europe brought its heavyweights in Italy, West Germany and Soviet Union and the Latin countries of Mexico, Peru and Uruguay had homefield advantage. It remains one of the best World Cup’s in history, a World in Colour.
00:00 – Introduction
00:30 – Road to Mexico
12:15 – Group A
14:45 ...
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