NQAT Game Club: 1996 FA Cup Semi Final

No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

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Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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#435. This week on NQAT Game Club, we look back at the 1996 FA Cup Semi-Final against Chelsea, a masterful performance from Eric Cantona, and another step closer to the double-double. Our interview guest this week is Flair Football, the UK's first social network for young football players. Next Friday, the 1968 European Cup Final against Benfica at Wembley.United v Chelsea (1996)https://footballia.net/matches/manchester-united-chelsea-fc-fa-cupUnited v Benfica (1968)https://footballia.net/matches/sl-benfica-manchester-united Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The So much for that. So Ed, the year is 1996, the venue is the staggeringly beautiful Villa Park and I mean that just really on
0:35.8	FA Cup semi-final day the opening establishing shot of the coverage that we saw was
0:41.2	just that overhead of Villa Park.
0:43.2	Oh, Villa Park Semi, that font.
0:46.6	This is just like, this is really very deep intense nostalgia.
0:51.6	Um, this game.
0:52.6	When do you think graphics, one thing I thought about watching this coverage,
0:55.7	this is BBC coverage with Mottie and Brookings from March 31st 1996,
1:01.6	when do you think the graphics took a step up because all the way from the
1:05.4	1960s to apparently 1996 they looked exactly the same very basic
1:11.2	no no no these 96 graphics are very 90s. There is a drop shadow on that
1:16.7	italicized font. That is someone's like, oh, what is this Adobe Photoshop?
1:22.2	Let me put a drop shadow in here.
1:26.0	Yeah, they've come a little bit of a long way already
1:30.0	by this is
1:34.0	is an FAA Cup the FAA Cup semi-final very much emphasis on the semi because the
1:39.3	final is a terrible game in the 95 season, which I have said a number of times on this show is I think
1:46.6	the greatest Premier League season of all time, and the FA Cup wasn't too bad either given that we beat Liverpool in the final with the last minute Eric Canton our winner.
1:56.7	Right. I mean there's so much about this whole campaign. I mean I think we've done bonus content just on this campaign haven't we?
2:02.3	So this is where United
2:04.0	overtake Newcastle to win the lead by four points this is the win nothing with kids
2:09.7	season where Beckham the Nevils and But were integrated into the team.
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