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🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Rog and Rory return in our new pod series digging into the history of Champions League ties. Today, the big story is Atletico Madrid, the social history surrounding the club, the mythical Diego Simeone, and more (6:24). Then, an examination of the Lille model that has seen their players become transfer centerpieces time and again and led them to a Ligue 1 title in 2021 before it all fell apart (27:44). A quick look at Rangers and their journey from the lowest of the low to beating Dortmund last week in the first leg of the Europa League (39:09), and finally the football story of the year: Bodø/Glimt (48:34).
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| 1:24.0 | Bello di notte, more beautiful by night. I'm still basking in the afterglow of the Parisian flood lights and illuminated that moment of wonder. |
| 1:36.0 | Produced by Killian and Bappé that we just relived and I'm not alone. |
| 1:40.0 | My mate, Rory Smith, chief soccer correspondent of the New York Times is with me. Tell us, Rory, exactly what noise came out of your mouth when Killian shimmied between Vascares and Milletow and bore down on court. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm not quite sure I could recreate it to be honest. Certainly not for a PG-13 podcast. |
| 1:59.0 | It was an incredible moment. A great Champions League moment as well. |
| 2:04.0 | The game, if we're all honest, had been a little bit of a damp squib. Rory, I didn't seem to have that keen on attacking. |
| 2:10.0 | P.S.C didn't really have a plan other than Bappé is quick, let's see how that works out. And then all you need is that one sliver of light, that one little bit of opportunity and a player of that quality to introduce that. |
| 2:25.0 | That is why it's why this competition, the Champions League is so special because there are so many players like that who can just give you that moment that make every single one of the preceding 93 minutes absolutely worthwhile. |
| 2:37.0 | And all that damp squib are then just falls away and the singular memory that we've all shared is the only thing that we take from it. |
| 2:45.0 | Exactly. |
| 2:46.0 | And one of the many things I admire about Bappé, everything on the field of's, but off the field, he's so bloody able to articulate his genius describing precisely after the game to duelist what goes through his head. |
| 3:00.0 | He said, I have the advantage of getting into the box very early, I'm quickly the master of my own destiny. I'm in control, they're going backwards. |
| 3:10.0 | The referees are already given us a penalty tonight so they don't really know what to do. Rory, as a New York Times journalist, you're often the gen asking the questions post game and not every footballer is as emotionally articulate as a Bappé. |
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