Euro 2004: Greek Glory, England’s Exit - Part One
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the latest episode of The Overlap’s football history podcast, It Was What It Was.
With Euro 2024 approaching this week, we present a special two-part episode on Euro 2004, a tournament where underdogs Greece achieved one of international football’s greatest upsets.
Regarded as the one that got away from Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Golden Generation England team, journalists Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper set the scene with a full detailed look on the group stages.
From Portugal’s preparation as hosts to their opening defeat by eventual winners Greece and an 18 year-old Wayne Rooney propelling himself to an international icon, part one delves into the story surrounding the nations before the knock-out rounds.
Join us for part two on Thursday 13th June where Rob and Jonathan tell the story of Greece manager Otto Rehhagel and the path that led the way to one of football’s biggest ever shocks.
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| 0:00.0 | I think England would have progressed past Portugal if we had var. |
| 0:09.9 | I think we could have done it if Campbell's goal had stood. |
| 0:12.6 | If you look at who won it, Greece. That was a huge surprise. |
| 0:16.6 | We could have won it, I'm sure. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Jonathan Wilson and with Rob Draper, |
| 0:22.3 | and that was Svenio and Erikson, |
| 0:24.8 | speaking a few years ago about year 2004, |
| 0:29.3 | expressing a commonly held view that England should have won that tournament. |
| 0:31.1 | Today on it was what it was, |
| 0:32.7 | we'll be discussing that claim and remembering what was really a very, very good tournament |
| 0:36.1 | and the surprise winners, Greece, |
| 0:37.6 | maybe the most surprising winners, a major tournament has ever had. |
| 0:41.8 | So, Rob, where do you stand on this idea that England should have won year 2004, |
| 0:47.0 | the beginning of the golden generation? |
| 0:49.1 | Jonathan, I think it's an idea I would have subscribed to you prior to research in this podcast. |
| 0:53.9 | I always cite when we're |
| 0:55.7 | having these sort of debates in bars and restaurants that this is a trophy England and should |
| 1:00.7 | have won. But it's really interesting going back over the history and thinking, I'm really not |
| 1:05.1 | sure that is the case. There's a couple of reasons why. I mean, we're partly completely |
| 1:10.1 | ignoring France who have a superb golden generation of their why. I mean, we're partly completely ignoring France who have a superb |
| 1:12.6 | golden generation of their own with Cittan, Henri, Perez. I suppose if Desailles is dropped |
| 1:20.2 | in his tournament, as a sense maybe their time is passing, but there is Henri and Perez and |
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