Men in Blazers 10/24/23: European Nights with Rory Smith
Men In Blazers
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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FEBRUARY 26, 2003.
That is the last time Newcastle United won a Champions League game before thrashing PSG in Matchday 2. And so much has changed in the time between those two wins. The Magpies have witnessed the fading star of Alan Shearer, the lowest lows of relegation, and near fan-revolt under former owner Mike Ashely. But then, the 2021 takeover by the Saudi Public Investment Fund led to new heights on the pitch...and moral conflict off of it. This week, Rog and Rory breakdown what that complicated takeover has meant for a proud team city in a working class city, and for football as a tool of global politics.
Then, ANOTHER Italian football scandal catches Sandro Tonali its snare. Plus, the moment we've all been waiting for...Rory's official position on Stottie cakes.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wundry and Audible comes Class of 88, a new podcast hosted by Will Smith. |
| 0:07.0 | Before 1988, a lot of people didn't take hip-hop seriously, |
| 0:11.0 | but hip-hop today touches everything from film to fashion to sports. So what |
| 0:16.7 | changed? Follow class of 88 wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | You're listening to the Menin' Blazer's media network, suboptimal radio. |
| 0:27.0 | Newcastle continue to fight for every inch. |
| 0:29.0 | Look out! |
| 0:30.0 | This list! |
| 0:31.0 | Oh, top 90! That was special! |
| 0:37.0 | Absolutely magisterial by Fabian Shah! |
| 0:50.0 | It's Rodd, you are... It's Rodge, and you are listening to European Knights. |
| 0:55.6 | The show that brings you the top 90, absolutely magisterial, |
| 1:00.4 | astonishingly magnificent from across European continental football. |
| 1:06.4 | That would be the Champions League, the Europa League, and your favour. |
| 1:10.9 | I know, dear listener, the the conference league like Ray Hudson's call |
| 1:15.8 | for Fabian Shars slip come shot from distance that sealed a remarkable epic statement for one win over Paris Saint-Germain for Newcastle. Yes, Newcastle, |
| 1:29.5 | and joined as always by a gent whose words never slip. He's only the Bard of Britain, my mate, and the Chief |
| 1:36.6 | soccer correspondent for the New York Times from his vacation. Ah, in an undisclosed spot near |
| 1:42.2 | Cambridgeshire, it's the mighty Rory Smith. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm glad you take that information secret. You know it's a very quiet part of the world, |
| 1:49.1 | Cambridge, I don't think people would want to be facing hordes of European Knights fans sort of appearing on the |
| 1:55.0 | Norfolk broads that would not be that would not go down and they would they would |
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