THE year 1984 was supposed to be the year of AS Roma. Their Swedish coach, Nils Liedholm, had spent nearly five seasons constructing a team built to win. The season before, they had captured their first Scudetto in over 40 years and the celebrations were memorable but...
THEY said it would never happen again. A once-in-a-lifetime event. An opportunity for a public display of civic unity. A chance for an entire city to stand together and say, “You know what? This is us. You can knock us down, you can walk all over us. But you won’t...
YOU know the story. It’s 1984. It’s the European Cup final. A fearless Liverpool side led by Graeme Souness belts out the Chris Rea song that had become their anthem in the faces of the Roma team they were about to take on in their own backyard. And that’s how the...
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Weekender: Liverpool Out But Not Down
Gareth Roberts is joined by Mike Kearney, Emilia Bona and Jamie Webster to look back at the Real Madrid loss and ahead to the Leeds United game.
Also on the show John Gibbons is joined by Laura Cutter from the Invisible Wind Factory about their new Rollerdrome, and by Oobah Butler to talk about Catfish UK.
