Euro Stories: 2004
The Totally Football Show with James Richardson
The Athletic
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We arrive at 2004, the year of Frankee and Eamonn's musical back and forth, the Blackberry, and one of the most unexpected tournaments in Euros history. Yup, we're in Portugal where there are teams on the up, like England, and teams on the down, like Germany. And this time there's a dark horse that no one expects will actually do anything at all. Will we ever learn? This is Euro 2004 brought to you by the voices that lived and breathed it from across the continent.
Presenter: Iain Macintosh
Producer: Abi Paterson
Executive Producer: Ben Green
Guests: Elko Born, David Cermak, Rafael Honigstein, Lynsey Hooper, James Horncastle, Themis Kessaris, Tom Kundert, and Julien Laurens
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