Nessun Dorma 80s & 90s Football Podcast
Nessun Dorma will take you back to the time when football had smaller shorts, diving headers, pitches covered with sand and Elton Welsby on the TV. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the stories and some analysis as well. Featuring journalist and proper old football lovers Rob Smyth (The Guardian) plus plenty of other 80s & 90s tragics. If you're like us then this is pod for you.
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World Cup Special: France vs West Germany, 1982
192 min
2
A Selection From 101 Great Goals
91 min
3
Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 5-1
74 min
4
Review of "Football: Designing the Beautiful Ga...
22 min
5
Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 10-6
57 min
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Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 15-11
71 min
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Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 20-16
58 min
8
ND Extra Time - 'When The Seagulls Follow the T...
Gary Naylor chats to Tom Whitworth about his book, When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler: Football in the 90s. They get into the thrills and spills of the tumultuous decade that saw the founding of the Premier League, the transformation of stadiums and...
35 min
9
ND Extra Time - Euro Summits by Jonathan O'Brien
We're back for another Extra Time and with the rescheduled Euro 2020 on the way, Mike has a chat with the author of the definitive history of the tournament. Jonathan O'Brien is an editor and writer for the Business Post in Ireland, and has written...
51 min
10
ND Extra Time: The Accidental Footballer by Pat...
Our Gary talks to the much loved Pat Nevin about his new memoir, The Accidental Footballer, already a bestseller. En route, we hear about Tommy Tuchel and the alchemy of football management, why it really was better growing up on cinder pitches in the...
69 min
11
S4 Ep11: The Final Day 1993-94
It’s a shift in focus in this episode as Nessun Dorma takes a look at the bottom half of the Premier League table, and the extraordinary denouement of the 1993-94 season.Gary, Mike and special guest Scott Murray pick over the bones of a dramatic final...
160 min
12
ND Extra Time – Silver Linings by David Hartrick
We’re back with another Extra Time, our little offshoot that takes a broader look around the world of football culture. This week our guest is David Hartrick – publisher, podcaster and author of a fantastic new book, Silver Linings: Bobby Robson’s...
77 min
13
S4 Ep10: Liverpool 4 - 3 Newcastle, 25 Years La...
25 years after that night at Anfield; Lee, Mike and special guest Scott Murray consider Keegan, Evans, Collymore closing in and all the other kamikaze football that formed perhaps the greatest match of our lifetimes. We reflect on the match's impact...
146 min
14
S4 Ep9: Aston Villa’s Glory Years, 1980-82 - Pa...
Having looked at the Villa players individually, Lee, Gary and Mike return to discuss what they achieved collectively. The hors d’oeuvre is Villa’s first league title in 71 years, achieved after a Homeric tussle through the 1980-81 season with Bobby...
106 min
15
S4 Ep8: Aston Villa’s Glory Years, 1980-82 - Pa...
Once upon a time in the Midlands, there was a moneyball miracle. Come and join Lee, Gary and Mike as they travel all the way back to 1980, one of the outer markers of the Nessun Dorma time period, to look at Aston Villa’s epic achievements at the...
101 min
16
ND Extra Time: Cruyff at Feyenoord
In 1983, Ajax decided not to renew the contract of Johan Cruyff, reasoning he was past it at the age of 36. So Cruyff, in the highest possible dudgeon, signed for their bitter rivals Feyenoord – and then won the Double with them, despite an 8-2 defeat...
44 min
17
S4 Ep7: Kevin Keegan's England - Part 2
In Part Two, Keegan goes into full Keegan mode, with the smiles broad as England take a 2-0 lead against Portugal in their first group match. The panel reflect on why David Beckham was right in his belief that it was a precarious lead as Portugal...
104 min
18
S4 Ep6: Kevin Keegan's England - Part 1
Kevin Keegan - England manager? What a loser!Lee, Rob and Gary unwrap that reductive statement and conclude that while Joseph Kevin Keegan may have lost, he was no loser.In Part One, the initial focus is on the optimism that beamed out of little KK,...
103 min
19
S4 Ep5: Arsenal’s Double 1997-98 (part ii)
Gary, Rob and Mike are back to discuss the transformation of Arsenal during Arsène Wenger’s first full season.We take an in-depth look at two Premier League classics, as Arsenal chin Manchester United home and away. The latter of those at Old Trafford...
73 min
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S4 Ep4: Arsenal’s Double 1997-98 (part i)
Arsène? Who could ever forget him. Yet in September 1996 Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger was a relative unknown in the UK when he left Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan to take charge of Arsenal. Gary, Rob and Mike discuss his early impact at the club, from...
92 min
21
S4 Ep 3: France 98 pt 3 – the denouement
We’ve arrived at the last eight in France, and Gary, Rob and Mike have much to discuss.Settle in for a chat about two of the greatest World Cup matches of the modern era, one of the most celebrated goals in the history of the tournament, the bombshell...
135 min
22
S4 Ep2: France 98 pt 2 – the Round of 16
That isn’t a misprint – we really have spun the thick end of two hours out of one round of World Cup football. Gary, Rob and Mike return for a review of the last 16 in France. We look at a devastating performance by Ronaldo, the World Cup’s first ever...
149 min
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S4 Ep1: France 98, Pt 1 - The Groups
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, then you're Nessun Dorma's target demographic. We're back, and to open season four we're focusing on the last World Cup of the twentieth century. Part 1 of our review of France 98 takes in the group stages...
113 min
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Bonus Ep: Middlesbrough 1996-97
Middlesbrough’s 1996-97 season was the mother of all rollercoasters. They reached two cup finals, lost them both and were relegated – yet they were talk of the football world. Rob talks to Tom Flight, author of Yer Joking Aren’t Ya?, about Boro’s...
38 min
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S3 Ep10: Rovers Revolution
It’s 25 years since Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League title in incredible circumstances. In the last episode of our current season, Rob talks to John Duerden, author of Rovers Revolution, about Blackburn’s dramatic rise under Jack Walker, the...
74 min