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on the Monday podcast feed and it's time for another episode of Classic Teams. This time,

you get not one, but two. Classic Teams. It's the rail, sausage, and athletic club sides,

which dominated Spanish football in the early 1980s. Remember for access to our entire archive

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Hello patrons and welcome to episode four of TSFP Presents Classic Teams. This week we're talking

about a really, really interesting period of Spanish football and indeed Spanish history.

We're not talking about one, but two classic teams. It's the period at the start of the 1980s,

where Spanish football was dominated by the Basque teams, where our sausage had champions

in 1981 and 1982. Only to then see athletic bill about win the league title in 1983 and 1984.

So we had four consecutive Basque champions. We've never seen a region dominate Spanish football

like this as Basque country did at the start of the 1980s. Obviously I was looking back and in the 1960s,

only rumored and athletic rumored one, the list title. Apart from that, you've never seen

Andalusia with a lot more population than the Basque country or Valencia or even Catalonia or

Galicia. None of these regions have ever dominated La Liga as the Basque country did at the start of

the 1980s. We're obviously going to talk about the teams, some of the players involved, some of the

iconic managers involved as well. But almost as important as this or as interesting is the

political and social context of what was happening in Spain at the 1980s, at the start of the 1980s,

it was a rather wild time, I think you can say in all aspects. Anyway, we'll get to that in a moment,

but let's start talking about the football and about Real Sociedad winning their first ever

league title in 1981. Obviously, Athletic will have had previously won league titles, I think they'd won

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