18 min
Marseille 1993: the ultimate tainted title. The Football Bloody Hell Podcast
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- Sport
Season 1992/93 was a memorable European campaign for a few reasons: Juventus defeated Dortmund by a record score in the final of the UEFA Cup; the European Cup was rebranded as the Champions League; Germany welcomed the cream of top-level football to the final in Munich, just a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of the country. But each of those interesting trinkets pales into insignificance when compared with the sheer, unadulterated drama which circulated around the eventual winners of Old Big Ears, Olympique de Marseille. In this week's podcast, host Roddy Cairns (@RoddyGCairns) is joined by Fintan O'Reilly (@FiontanOR) and Jack Wills (@Jack_Wills_95) to look back at a team which captured the continent's hearts - and then lost them again...
Music credits (as edited):
Welcome to the Show by Kevin MacLeod (Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4614-welcome-to-the-show)
Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod (Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first)
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Season 1992/93 was a memorable European campaign for a few reasons: Juventus defeated Dortmund by a record score in the final of the UEFA Cup; the European Cup was rebranded as the Champions League; Germany welcomed the cream of top-level football to the final in Munich, just a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of the country. But each of those interesting trinkets pales into insignificance when compared with the sheer, unadulterated drama which circulated around the eventual winners of Old Big Ears, Olympique de Marseille. In this week's podcast, host Roddy Cairns (@RoddyGCairns) is joined by Fintan O'Reilly (@FiontanOR) and Jack Wills (@Jack_Wills_95) to look back at a team which captured the continent's hearts - and then lost them again...
Music credits (as edited):
Welcome to the Show by Kevin MacLeod (Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4614-welcome-to-the-show)
Fearless First by Kevin MacLeod (Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first)
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
18 min