How the Champions League final nearly ended in disaster – Football Weekly
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🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:07.4 | Hi, Podfans Max here. |
| 0:08.3 | You're about to hear an episode of Today in Focus that was released yesterday. |
| 0:11.5 | Liverpool fans attending this year's Champions League final faced a crush outside the stadium |
| 0:15.4 | that held star kekos of the worst day in the club's history. |
| 0:18.2 | David Conn has spent months investigating what happened. |
| 0:23.6 | Today, a special Guardian investigation into how this year's Champions League final |
| 0:29.6 | in Paris came so close to disaster. |
| 0:37.6 | Hi, Podfans Max here. |
| 0:38.4 | Barry's here too. |
| 0:39.1 | Hello. |
| 0:39.9 | Football Weekly is supported by Sainsbury's. |
| 0:42.0 | Sainsbury's is teaming up with comic relief this Christmas to help nourish the nation and tackle food poverty. |
| 0:47.3 | They're encouraging customers to become super secret centers by donating to comic relief in store and online. |
| 0:52.7 | And what's more, |
| 0:53.4 | Sainsbury's are matching your donations to comic relief up to the value of £1.5 million. |
| 0:58.8 | That's great for a generous. |
| 1:00.7 | I know it should be a secret, but what would you get me if it was a secret center? |
| 1:05.3 | Well, I think I'd kill two birds with one stone, Max. |
| 1:07.9 | I'd buy you a copy of Inverting the Pyramid. |
| 1:11.8 | So I'll wrap that up, give it to you. |
| 1:14.2 | By, you know, Inverting the Pyramid, by our friend, Jonathan Wilson. |
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