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#184 What are some formerly great teams that experienced a dramatic decline, and what factors led to that fate?

Soccer 101

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Soccer, Sports

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Graham and Taylor take a look at some of the biggest and/or most successful clubs that today find themselves in less glorious environs. How did they get there? What are the different factors that can lead to a club's downfall? Are any clubs today at risk of making similar mistakes? All that and much more!

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0:49.5

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

0:51.1

I am joined, as always, by Graham Ruthven.

0:53.1

And Graham, this week we are not discussing Manchester United's once-in-future manager. We were doing that off-air. We're recorded this Wednesday, October 2nd. Who knows what's going to happen there, Graham, but I don't know if the world needs more Manchester United conversation, at least not right now. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Yeah, today we're talking about teams that used to be good, so I don't know, maybe we are going to mention Manchi State.

0:56.1

I've inadvertently dunked on myself. Oh, man. Sorry, Taylor. Yeah. I did that. Oh, I can't believe I did that without even realizing it. I am not pleased with myself. Yeah, so maybe they fit that category in some way.

1:27.8

But no, we are, we are, they don't quite fit what we're going to be talking about today

1:31.1

because we're going to be talking about clubs that were dominant in another era that are

1:35.1

like nowhere near that level now due to, well, my eight are still like in the Premier League

1:41.4

and still in Continental Competition.

1:43.2

Like, what is their lowest is still as like eighth.

1:45.9

That was last season.

1:46.7

So we're talking about teams that have had a much bigger fall than that.

1:49.5

And that could be due to different factors.

1:51.4

That could be financial mismanagement or sometimes tragedy in one case.

1:56.1

We'll talk about later on.

1:57.5

And I think that's one of the most fascinating things about soccer and sport in general is how

2:01.2

there are different eras and you can have certain teams that will have a great deal of success for a

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