Back from the Brink: Episode 1
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A year ago today, the European Super League crashed into our lives. Andy Brassell and a host of journalists, fans and familiar Ramble voices tell the story of what happened, how supporters fought back, and wonder what the future holds.
In the first of three episodes, we trace the long road to April 2021.
From the origins of the Super League in the 80s, to the scarcely believable backroom manoeuvrings inside UEFA last year, we speak to the journalists who first broke the story to understand the motivations and miscalculations that finally made Europe’s biggest clubs cash in their most valuable bargaining chip.
Episode 2 is out on Wednesday. Want to join the conversation? Find us on socials @FootballRamble and use the hashtag #BFTB.
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| 0:00.0 | So Danny, the story broke while we were on air on Talksport, like we are every Sunday night |
| 0:15.3 | doing trans-Europe Express, what do you remember about that night and what we're feeling |
| 0:20.8 | at the time? |
| 0:21.8 | It's already an amazingly intense show, we talk about it for an hour or so beforehand, |
| 0:27.9 | there's so much stuff we have to convey in the three hours and you think three hours |
| 0:30.7 | would be enough, but it's not. |
| 0:32.8 | You're hyper alert the whole time because there's so many things you have to remember, |
| 0:37.8 | individual leagues, players, tendencies, trends that we've been following, jokes we've |
| 0:42.6 | been making and all the rest of it. |
| 0:44.5 | So it's already you're in a state of very, very heightened broadcasting alert and then |
| 0:50.8 | out the blue comes this thing and it arrives, it arrives into our world like a torpedo |
| 0:56.3 | into the middle of a ship. |
| 0:57.8 | What it appears, this proposal of a European super league which poses an existential threat |
| 1:02.4 | to football as we know it is going ahead. |
| 1:07.2 | I was in bed on Sunday morning around, I got a call really early and it was about a half |
| 1:15.7 | six, seven from someone in Italy asking me if I was up, I was like, well I am now, you |
| 1:20.4 | know, and he was calling about something completely different, something something |
| 1:28.0 | in Serie A and he was furious about something. |
| 1:32.2 | I was in the midst of writing a feature in my apartment when the news started to seep |
| 1:42.7 | through and when I say news, it wasn't the actuality of the super league launching, it |
| 1:49.6 | was the whispers that it was around the corner that this was inevitable and I remember |
| 1:57.2 | distinctly thinking, oh this is going to be seismic and expecting some mammoth unveiling |
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