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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S1 Ep13 Part 1: Transfer Records from Francis t...
Part 1 of our ramble through the British transfer record from Trevor Francis's million pound move to Forest all the way to Shearer's £15m switch to Newcastle and everything in between. This episode takes us from 1979 to 1989 and there's also a pause...
57 min
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S1 Ep12: Euro 96
We discuss the summer of 1996 was quite as glorious as we all remember it with Lee Calvert, Rob Smyth and Mike Gibbons, author of When Football Came Home about Euro 96.There is also a retrospective of some of our favourite manager outburst, featuring...
69 min
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S1 Ep11: Paolo Di Canio's West Ham
We chat the Redknapp and Di Canio West Ham years with Jacob Steinberg, remember the late, great Cyrille Regis and have a long chat about one of our favourite 90s legends, Roberto Baggio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
81 min
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S1 Ep10: The Spice Boys
A chat about the Liverpool Spice Boys with Rob Smyth and Scott Murray: the players, tactics, stories and whether those bloody white suits caused history to judge them too harshly. There's also another Journeyman Of The Week and we pick some of our...
63 min
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S1 Ep9: Howard Wilkinson's Leeds
We discuss the Howard Wilkinson period at Leeds United with journalist Rob Bagchi and also find time to reflect on another defuncy competition from the 1980s and also a great goal you may not remember See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out...
60 min
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S1 Ep8: Everton 84-85
A look at whether the career of Dennis Wise is underrated, a luxury selection for the Journeyman Of The Week and a long chat about Everton's greatest season. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
63 min
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S1 Ep7: Barry vs Motty
Lee Calvert and Rob Smyth are joined by Adam Hurrey to talk the backpass law, an underrated Arsenal cup win, the great Barry vs Motty debate and to select our first ever Journeyman Of The Week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
60 min
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S1 Ep6: Liverpool Under Dalglish
83 min
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S1 Ep5: Luton's Greatest Year & Le Tournoi 1997
49 min
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S1 Ep4: Good Tournament, Bad Signing
34 min
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S1 Ep3: Denmark 1992
62 min
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S1 Ep2: Fergie's First Four Years
50 min
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S1 Ep1: Italia 90
89 min