Men in Blazers 03/08/22: European Nights with Rory Smith, Presented by Paramount+

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Rog and Rory return in our new pod series digging into the history of European football's biggest ties. First, Rog and Rory touch briefly on the potential impacts of Roman Abramovic's sale of Chelsea (3:16) Our main story today is the Red Bull football project that began with RB Salzburg in 2005, both the successful elements that have become European standards, and the vehement fan pushback in Austria and Germany (8:33). Then, a quick look at now the abolition of away goals could impact the knockout rounds (30:43), and finally over to the Europa League to look at the unprecedented level of success maintained in the competition by Sevilla (37:14).

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to Men in Blazers at 3 on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:08.0	Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondry's American History Tellers. In our latest series, we tell the stories of four presidential assassins and their targets.
0:17.0	Exploring how a single act of violence can change the course of history. Listen to American History Tellers on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
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0:32.0	We must be handsome and we're always so sexy.
0:36.0	I'm a boy, so beautiful.
0:42.0	This is Roch. We back. You are listening to the mighty European Knights presented by Paramount Plus.
0:51.0	And it is such a joy to return to your loving arms. And talk about the contours of these mesmerising competitions and competitors.
1:02.0	Especially in the wake of big news that swept the football world since we last potted.
1:06.0	News that everyone's talking about, yes! Christian politics scored a big boy goal in the Champions League.
1:13.0	And then dropped history's most self-aware gritty celebration. Nothing's happening football that's bigger than that. And I'm sure my guest will agree.
1:21.0	I'm joined as usual by the Chief Soccer Correspondent of your New York Times. Mr. Rory Smith.
1:28.0	How you doing?
1:29.0	Oh, Rory, I believe I've just caught you before you leave for Madrid to save a one of Artichola European Knights in the flesh.
1:37.0	I am on the verge of filling out not one, but two passenger locator forms to go to the Real Madrid PSG game.
1:45.0	I saw today killing and bapay. The day we were recording killing and bapay, there's an injury doubt.
1:49.0	It's not a big European game unless one of the star players suffers a mysterious injury less than 48 hours before it happens.
1:55.0	And it's the first Champions League game that I'm going to not in England since the final last year in Porto.
2:04.0	So I'm genuinely excited to be done back to the Bernabéu.
2:08.0	Passing your locator forms and paper bureaucracy. That's why we're football fans.
2:14.0	Before we dive into the European banquet that awaits us this week, we do need to touch quickly upon the seismic ongoing fallout as the governing bodies of the world scrambled to respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfolding daily before our eyes.
2:31.0	The story emerging from Chelsea Football Club 1. Like so many events in the rest of the world, we could never have imagined even two weeks ago.
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