England Euro '96 Special featuring Gazza & Alan Shearer
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The Athletic
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🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Host Mark Chapman is joined by Dan Bardell plus the Athletic's George Caulkin & Oli Kay to look back on England v Scotland at Euro 96 with exclusive interviews with key players including Alan Shearer, Paul Ince & Paul Gascoigne.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman, welcome to the England show on The Athletic. I'm joined today by The Athletics, George Culkin, Olly Kay and Dan Bardell for a very special show. England faced Scotland at Wembley on Friday night, but today we're going to go back 25 years to the last time the two nations faced each other in a major tournament, which was, of course, Euro 96. |
| 0:38.8 | Now, George, along with Alan Shearer, has written a brilliant article for the Athletic on the game, |
| 0:45.1 | the whole tournament. There is an awful lot of emotion and plenty of memories in that article. |
| 0:50.8 | And today we're going to hear from the players featured in it. So that's Paulins, |
| 1:00.8 | Teddy Sherringham, Gary McAllister and Gaza. If you want to read it, then you go to theathletic.com slash Englandpod and you can sign up for just one pound a month. So theathletic.com |
| 1:06.1 | slash England pod and you get theic for just one pound a month. |
| 1:11.3 | This is The England Show from The Athletic. |
| 1:14.8 | So welcome to Wembley for England against Scotland. |
| 1:19.9 | The oldest international fixture of them all. |
| 1:22.9 | First played away back in November 1872. |
| 1:31.3 | Everyone finished nil-0. The hopes are that this one will have a few goals as well. And as is the custom in this 1996 European championships, |
| 1:39.7 | a handshake between the teams as a prelude to the battles that will come ahead in the next 90 minutes. |
| 1:45.9 | Before we hear from the players and Alan and discuss the tournament, |
| 1:50.3 | let's just find out where we all were in the summer of 1996. |
| 1:54.3 | I have a feeling that one person on this panel is going to make the other three of us feel really old. |
| 1:59.2 | Let's start with George. |
| 2:00.5 | I was on a holiday in Portugal for certainly the first couple of us feel really old. Let's start with George. I was on a holiday in |
| 2:01.8 | Portugal for certainly the first couple of weeks, the tournament. So I mean, my memory is not the best |
| 2:07.5 | anyway, but there was certainly a lot of beer. There was a beer influence to that loss of memory |
| 2:13.8 | as well. So I was in, yeah, I was I was was, I was, I was in Portugal, in a bar or two |
| 2:19.5 | watching it that way, which is a pretty great way of watching it, actually. Yeah, I think I'm |
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