On The Continent: Man City’s pinnacle
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dotun and Andy are joined by Miguel Delaney to discuss perhaps THE best single performance by an English team in Europe we’ve ever seen and what has brought us to this moment.
We also speculate about the future for Real Madrid and whether this should really signal for a changing of the guard, both on the pitch and in the dugout. And would you rather be Inter - with a Champions League final to look forward to but sat on a ticking financial time bomb - or AC Milan - with a squad full of young talent - right now?
Plus, we have a message for Barcelona: don’t do ring-a-ring-a-roses to celebrate a title win at your most hated rival’s stadium!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to On the Continent, your definitive guide to the week in European football. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Dotson Adibaion. I'm Andy Brassel and I'm a Gargolani. |
| 0:12.0 | On this edition, City make mincemeat of Real Madrid, but what's the real story, morning glory? |
| 0:21.0 | Also, is this the way to Istanbul for Inter? Or do they have more important issues than a Champions League final to contend with? |
| 0:29.0 | And has winning La Liga ever felt more like singing the blues from Barcelona? |
| 0:40.0 | Andy, Miguel, I understand you were both in the place to be last night, which obviously was the exe had stadium. |
| 0:50.0 | How was it for you, Miguel? |
| 0:52.0 | Interesting. It was... I mean, I've looked over it and what I've written, which is putting in a wider context. |
| 1:03.0 | I've got over 15 years in this job of seeing a lot of great performances, including Guardiola's Barcelona. |
| 1:13.0 | This was up there in terms of pure football performance. It's possibly the best ever performance by an English team in Europe. |
| 1:20.0 | It's possibly Pep Guardiola's best ever performance. And yeah, just from sensing the wider discussion about it, the response to it, |
| 1:32.0 | it just doesn't feel like it's being looked on. There's not much will to discuss it in those terms, because of course this is all part of a wider context about what the City project is, |
| 1:42.0 | and what's happening to European football. And as I wrote in the piece, I mean, and I actually do think this is an element of it that probably... |
| 1:49.0 | It's almost... You've got to really zoom out to see it, which maybe why it hasn't been discussed as much, but it's pretty much... |
| 1:57.0 | It's what explains the modern game, really, which is essentially 50 years ago, from around the mid-2000s, |
| 2:05.0 | a group of states, all specifically motivated by an acutely regional rivalry, |
| 2:12.0 | sauce, football, as an avenue for expansion, for a soft power, for sports, watching wherever you want to call it, ultimately diverse, but for the moral. |
| 2:24.0 | And allied with the game's increasing embrace of Western capitalism, to what I would say a very corrosive degree, |
| 2:35.0 | when I was seeing the end product of that, and I don't think it's very healthy for European football. It obviously isn't, |
| 2:40.0 | but it's interesting that there's a real splitting European football now in that... |
| 2:46.0 | The Europa League has actually been a really healthy competition this... |
| 2:49.0 | You can see how this isn't the Premier League as well. The Europa League has been a really kind of... |
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