The glory and the failure of a brilliant Netherlands in 1974
The Netherlands in 1974 is the story of Rinus Michels' beautiful but ultimately heartbreaking World Cup campaign. With Johan Cruyff inspiring a side dripping with talent, boasting a style of play that...
10 Feb 20201h 19min
Euro 88 and Euro 92: from Dutch peaks and Soviet genius to Denmark's improbable glory
The last eight-team tournaments, and the polar opposites of one another, after the stylistic excellence of the Netherlands and the Soviet Union at Euro 88 came the largely sterile football of Euro 92,...
4 Feb 20201h 35min
How the 1930 World Cup changed the face of football and politics
Do you think that politic and finance influencing the World Cup is a new thing? In the first episode of Political Football: World Cup, we talk to Paul Mc Parlan about how the whole show got underway i...
31 Jan 20201h 22min
A chat with Abraham Klein, the man who refereed some of the biggest games in history
Abraham Klein is a man who had the best view of some of football's greatest fixtures. Refereeing at three World Cups, and withdrawing from the 1974 finals based on security grounds, Klein was in the m...
27 Jan 20201h 22min
Euro 1980 and 1984: a new format and a new era of continental brilliance
While Euro 1980 has long since faded to black, it was the first of the new tournament formats as West Germany, fired on by Klaus Allofs, triumphed over Belgium. Then, in 1984, the greatest individual ...
22 Jan 20201h 19min
The Liverpool magazine: exclusive audio from our Jamie Carragher interview as we discuss the club
Liverpool, with a rich, unique and storied history, to go alongside their hypnotic contemporary resurgence, meant that gravity was always going to lead These Football Times to a magazine in their hono...
19 Jan 20201h 40min
Liverpool, Istanbul and the epic 2004/05 Champions League campaign
Sarah Starkey talks to us about Liverpool's 2005 Champions League campaign, culminating in that epic comeback in Istanbul against AC Milan. From an inauspicious start that almost ended in elimination ...
14 Jan 20201h 22min
The European Championship 1960-1976: the old format, coin-toss wins, Panenka and lost glories
The European Championship is a constant shape-shifting entity, though first five finals were only four-nation events. From forgotten legends of yesteryear to coin-toss triumphs and Antonin Panenka's g...
8 Jan 20201h 21min
