Rangers Europa Dream: Gerrard, Van Bronckhorst & A Letter From 'Big Tav's' Mum
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Hosts Dan Bardell and Flo Lloyd-Hughes are joined by The Athletic's Rangers reporter Jordan Campbell to preview an historic night in Rangers Football Club history, as they prepare to face Eintracht Frankfurt in Wednesday night's Europa League Final...
Their journey to a first European final in 14 years, the transition from Steven Gerrard's league Champions to a 'bolder' European outfit under Giovanni van Bronckhorst, zero-to-hero John Lundstram and an inspiring letter from captain James Tavernier's mother.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.9 | Hello, I'm Dan Bardell and I'm Flolo Hughes. |
| 0:17.7 | And welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:19.9 | Today, it's time we shone a spotlight on Rangers |
| 0:22.3 | ahead of their first major European showpiece final in 14 years. |
| 0:29.5 | And Gulachi was missing in this. |
| 0:31.2 | Lundstra! |
| 0:34.5 | John Lundstra with the goal! |
| 1:04.6 | I think if you win the Europa League, it might be caused for some of them to go, wait a minute. Can I actually get this anywhere else? You always had something at your feet to kick around, didn't matter what, as a toddler. The United States! I'm They will face Iron Track Frankfurt in the Europa League final on Wednesday night, |
| 1:10.6 | and Rangers correspondent Jordan Campbell joins us from Seville to help us explore their journey back to this point, |
| 1:17.0 | from Gerrard's foundations to Van Brunco's tactical tightrope on this remarkable European campaign. |
| 1:22.8 | Yeah, but before we welcome Jordan onto the show, let's talk about Blackpool's Jake, Daniels, Flo. |
| 1:27.3 | I mean, it shouldn't be news at all in 2022, and it shouldn't be big news at all, |
| 1:28.3 | but the world we live in means that it is.'s become the first british male professional footballer to come out as gay |
| 1:32.7 | since just in fashioner an inspiring moment for many i'm sure and i'm sure he will go on and |
| 1:38.1 | inspire lots of people to do the same thing in the future so jake's the trailblazer but like |
| 1:42.7 | i say he shouldn't be huge news in |
| 1:44.4 | 2022, but it is. Yeah, it's amazing. I think it took a lot of people by surprise. I don't think |
| 1:49.3 | many knew it was coming yesterday afternoon until probably about 4, 430 when the Daily Mail |
| 1:55.8 | classic leaked the story that was going to be broken on Sky Sports News. |
| 2:01.6 | And so my friend texted me. |
| 2:03.5 | So I just got home, got my phone out, was watching Sky Sports News on my phone. |
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