Nessun Dorma Retro Football Podcast

Nessun Dorma Retro Football Podcast episodes:

• 12.18.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: Division One 1984-85

  Our last draft of the year goes back to 1984-85, the season when the greatest team in Everton’s history romped to glory. Martyn, Gary and Mac Millings select their XIs from Division One that season. As you can imagine, Gary...

  
• 11.20.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: England in the 1990s

  Martyn and Rob are joined by Rob Fletcher (aka 90s Football Writer) to pick their England XIs from a storied decade. As well as reaching the semi-finals of Italia 90 and Euro 96, England were involved in a true World...

  
• 11.13.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: Cricket World Cup 1992

  With the 2023 World Cup entering its final week, Martyn, Gary and Rob are joined by Jonathan Hungin and Andrew Miller for another cricket draft - this time the fondly remembered 1992 edition in Australia and New Zealand. It was...

  
• 11.06.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: Cricket World Cup 1999

  Nessun Dorma ventures into new territory this week, with Martyn and Rob joined by two special guests for our first ever cricket episode. Jonathan Hungin and Andrew Miller, who worked with Rob at Wisden.com at the turn of the century,...

  
• 10.30.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: Champions League 1999-2000

  Martyn and Rob are joined by Rob Fletcher, author of 1992: The Birth of Modern Football, and Ally Bain of Retro Football Analysis to pick their teams from a classic European season. Marquee picks include Raul, Oliver Kahn, Gaizka Mendieta,...

  
• 10.23.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: Premier League 1992-93

  Martyn, Gary and Rob are joined by Rob Fletcher, author of the superb 1992: The Birth of Modern Football, to draft their teams from the inaugural Premier League season. Marquee picks include Eric Cantona, Alan Shearer, Paul Ince, Paul McGrath,...

  
• 10.16.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: France 98

  It’s a big one this week: France 98, a tournament full of great games and all-time-great players. Martyn, Gary and Rob are joined by the Guardian’s Jacob Steinberg - who worked with Glenn Hoddle on his autobiography, Playmaker - to...

  
• 10.09.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: England in the 1980s

  This week’s draft is a challenge: picking an XI from England internationals of the 1980s. Martyn, Gary and Rob are joined by… nobody, and that’s probably a good thing because it's hard enough finding 33 players, never mind 44. A...

  
• 10.02.2023

  The Nessun Dorma Draft: Euro 96

  We’re going draft daft over the next few weeks, with a mini-series devoted to arguing over the best XIs from various tournaments, seasons and eras. We start with English football’s summer of love, also known as Euro 96. Martyn and...

  
• 08.21.2023

  S5 Ep9: Souness's Rangers revolution

  Gary and Rob talk to Martyn about his book Revolution: Rangers 1986-92, and how Graeme Souness changed Scottish football when he became player-manager at Ibrox. It was a perfect storm, and for a short time Rangers had a pulling power...

  
• 08.14.2023

  S5 Ep8: Nessun Dorma Book Club

  Welcome to the Nessun Dorma Book Club, a kind of sporting Late Review but without Tony Parsons. The premise this week is simple: Mike, Gary and Martyn bring a football book that made an impact on their lives and explain...

  
• 08.07.2023

  S5 Ep7: The Nessun Dorma Draft: Italia 90

  Welcome to the inaugural Nessun Dorma Draft, in which we each pick an XI from a particular tournament, season or era. Given the name of our podcast, we had to start with a trip back to Italia 90. Martyn, Gary...

  
• 07.31.2023

  S5 Ep6: Euro 88 (final)

  In the last episode of our Euro 88 special, Martyn, Gary and Rob are joined by Jonathan O’Brien to discuss the final in Munich and the tournament as a whole. They look at whether the suspended Oleg Kuznetsov would have...

  
• 07.24.2023

  S5 Ep5: Euro 88 special (semi-finals)

  Both Euro 88 semi-finals were intriguing culture clashes. The first match, in Hamburg, was loaded with historical significance. West Germany v Netherlands evoked the 1974 World Cup final and even the second world war. A good (if slightly overrated) match...

  
• 07.17.2023

  S5 Ep4: Euro 88 special (matchday 3)

  By the final round of group games, Euro 88 was effectively a six-team tournament. Denmark and England were already eliminated and barely had any pride left to play for. Group A was concluded with simultaneous games on Friday night, just...

  
• 07.10.2023

  S5 Ep3: Euro 88 special (matchday 2)

  Euro 88 was only four days old when the second of group games began, but our old friend jeopardy was already running amok. After a nervous start, the hosts West Germany took on an ailing Denmark in Gelsenkirchen. A few...

  
• 07.06.2023

  S5 Ep2: Euro 88 special (matchday 1)

  Our look back at Euro 88 continues with the first round of group games. On Friday 10 June 1988, the tournament kicked off with a tense match between West Germany, the hosts and favourites, and a vibrant young Italian side....

  
• 06.26.2023

  S5 Ep1: Euro 88 special (tournament preview)

  A new series of Nessun Dorma starts with the first part of our deep dive into Euro 88, the last major tournament in Europe before the big bang of Italia 90. Martyn Ramsay, Gary Naylor and Rob Smyth set the...

  
• 11.18.2022

  World Cup special: West Germany vs France, 1982

  Nessun Dorma returns from hibernation for a one-off special ahead of the World Cup, and a deep dive into one of the greatest matches in its storied history: the Espana 82 semi-final between West Germany and Germany. This is a...

  
• 09.14.2022

  A selection from 101 Great Goals

  Lee, Mike and Gary pick a couple of goals each from the legendary BBC VHS This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit nessundorma.substack.com

  
• 08.15.2022

  Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 5-1

  We finish off our countdown of the Top 20 goals of Mexico86. You won't believe which one wins.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 08.13.2022

  Review of "Football: Designing the Beautiful Game" - at the Design Museum until 29 August

  Gary Naylor is amazed and moved by an exhibition that tracks how football has been defined by the objects within it, and how a discourse developed globally to facilitate football's communication with itself and with its audience.  Learn more about your...

  
• 06.06.2022

  Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 10-6

  Our farewell tour countdown of Mexico 86 goals continues Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  
• 03.24.2022

  Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 15-11

  Lee, Mike and Gary are here to chat through the next five goals in the Mexico 86 Top 20 rundown. This episode is part of our farewell tour and was originally content for patrons of the pod, hence some of the...

  
• 02.17.2022

  Mexico 86 Top 20 Goals, Nos 20-16

  In the first gig of our farewell tour, Rob and Gary get detailed with Des as they cast their eye over the BBC's Top 20 Goals at Mexico 86. With just an hour at their disposal, they bravely manage to...

  
• 08.29.2021

  ND Extra Time: When The Seagulls Follow the Trawler by Tom Whitworth

  Gary Naylor chats to Tom Whitworth about his book, When the Seagulls Follow the Trawler: Football in the 90s. They get into the thrills and spills of a tumultuous decade that included the founding of the Premier League, the transformation...

  
• 06.09.2021

  ND Extra Time - Euro Summits by Jonathan O'Brien

  We're back for another Extra Time and with the rescheduled Euro 2020 on the way, Mike has a chat with the author of the definitive history of the tournament. Jonathan O'Brien is an editor and writer for the Business Post...

  
• 06.04.2021

  ND Extra Time: The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin

  Our Gary talks to the much loved Pat Nevin about his new memoir, The Accidental Footballer, already a bestseller. En route, we hear about Tommy Tuchel and the alchemy of football management, why it really was better growing up on...

  
• 05.19.2021

  S4 Ep11: The Final Day 1993-94

  It’s a shift in focus in this episode as Nessun Dorma takes a look at the bottom half of the Premier League table, and the extraordinary denouement of the 1993-94 season.Gary, Mike and special guest Scott Murray pick over the...

  
• 05.10.2021

  ND Extra Time – Silver Linings by David Hartrick

  We’re back with another Extra Time, our little offshoot that takes a broader look around the world of football culture. This week our guest is David Hartrick – publisher, podcaster and author of a fantastic new book, Silver Linings: Bobby...

  
• 04.11.2021

  S4 Ep10: Liverpool 4 - 3 Newcastle, 25 Years Later...

  25 years after that night at Anfield; Lee, Mike and special guest Scott Murray consider Keegan, Evans, Collymore closing in and all the other kamikaze football that formed perhaps the greatest match of our lifetimes. We reflect on the match's impact...

  
• 03.12.2021

  S4 Ep9: Aston Villa’s Glory Years, 1980-82 - Part 2

  Having looked at the Villa players individually, Lee, Gary and Mike return to discuss what they achieved collectively. The hors d’oeuvre is Villa’s first league title in 71 years, achieved after a Homeric tussle through the 1980-81 season with Bobby...

  
• 03.05.2021

  S4 Ep8: Aston Villa’s Glory Years, 1980-82 - Part 1

  Once upon a time in the Midlands, there was a moneyball miracle. Come and join Lee, Gary and Mike as they travel all the way back to 1980, one of the outer markers of the Nessun Dorma time period, to...

  
• 02.25.2021

  ND Extra Time: Johan Cruyff at Feyenoord

  In 1983, Ajax decided not to renew the contract of Johan Cruyff, reasoning he was past it at the age of 36. So Cruyff, in the highest possible dudgeon, signed for their bitter rivals Feyenoord – and then won the...

  
• 02.12.2021

  S4 Ep7: Kevin Keegan's England - Part 2

  In Part Two, Keegan goes into full Keegan mode, with the smiles broad as England take a 2-0 lead against Portugal in their first group match. The panel reflect on why David Beckham was right in his belief that it...

  
• 02.05.2021

  S4 Ep6: Kevin Keegan's England - Part 1

  Kevin Keegan - England manager? What a loser!Lee, Rob and Gary unwrap that reductive statement and conclude that while Joseph Kevin Keegan may have lost, he was no loser. In Part One, the initial focus is on the optimism that...

  
• 01.15.2021

  S4 Ep5: Arsenal’s Double 1997-98 (part ii)

  Gary, Rob and Mike are back to discuss the transformation of Arsenal during Arsène Wenger’s first full season.We take an in-depth look at two Premier League classics, as Arsenal chin Manchester United home and away. The latter of those at Old Trafford...

  
• 01.08.2021

  S4 Ep4: Arsenal’s Double 1997-98 (part i)

  Arsène? Who could ever forget him. Yet in September 1996 Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger was a relative unknown in the UK when he left Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan to take charge of Arsenal. Gary, Rob and Mike discuss his early...

  
• 12.08.2020

  S4 Ep 3: France 98 pt 3 – the denouement

  We’ve arrived at the last eight in France, and Gary, Rob and Mike have much to discuss.Settle in for a chat about two of the greatest World Cup matches of the modern era, one of the most celebrated goals in...

  
• 12.01.2020

  S4 Ep2: France 98 pt 2 – the Round of 16

  That isn’t a misprint – we really have spun the thick end of two hours out of one round of World Cup football. Gary, Rob and Mike return for a review of the last 16 in France. We look at a...

  
• 11.06.2020

  S4 Ep1: France 98, Pt 1 - The Groups

  If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, then you're Nessun Dorma's target demographic. We're back, and to open season four we're focusing on the last World Cup of the twentieth century. Part 1 of our review of...

  
• 07.02.2020

  Bonus Ep: Middlesbrough 1996-97

  Middlesbrough’s 1996-97 season was the mother of all rollercoasters. They reached two cup finals, lost them both and were relegated – yet they were talk of the football world. Rob talks to Tom Flight, author of Yer Joking Aren’t Ya?,...

  
• 05.17.2020

  S3 Ep10: Rovers Revolution

  It’s 25 years since Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League title in incredible circumstances.  In the last episode of our current season, Rob talks to John Duerden, author of Rovers Revolution, about Blackburn’s dramatic rise under Jack Walker, the monstrous brilliance of...

  
• 04.19.2020

  S3 Ep9: Escape To Victory

  Possibly the oldest football we have ever discussed, as we take on the 1981 film about a match in the 1940s.  Join Lee, Scott Murray and Carrie Dunn as they ramble about the film that all people in their right...

  
• 04.16.2020

  S3 Ep8: Man United under Big Ron

  In five and a half years at Old Trafford, Ron Atkinson made Manchester United glamorous again. Rob talks to Wayne Barton, author of Que Sera Sera, about the glorious victories, the doomed title challenges and whether fewer beers would have...

  
• 04.08.2020

  S3 Ep7: Graham Taylor's England

  Gary and Mike are joined by special guest Lionel Bernie, ghost writer of the fantastic Graham Taylor autobiography 'In His Own Words', for a look at the Watford managerial legend's time in charge of the national side. It's all here...

  
• 03.29.2020

  S3 Ep6 Pt2: Mexico 86 - The Knockouts

  Now that Silsoe’s “Aztec Gold” has faded out, it’s time to put on “Aztec Lightning” by Heads. Gary, Rob and Mike are back to complete their review of the 1986 World Cup with a look at the knockout phases in...

  
• 03.22.2020

  S3 Ep6 Pt1: Mexico 86 - The Groups

  Strike up "Aztec Gold" by Silsoe, because we’re about to take you on a 2-part journey back to the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. In this first episode Gary, Rob and Mike discuss (among other things) qualification, mascots, altitude, the...

  
• 01.26.2020

  S3 Ep5: The Season of Sleaze

  Lee, Rob and Gary take a (very) long look at the 1994-95 Season Of Sleaze, including drugs, battered taxi drivers, bungs, a kung-fu kick, a tearful press conference and much more. There's also a tall Irishman in the Underrated Hall of...

  
• 01.19.2020

  S3 Ep4: Rangers' 92-93 European adventure

  Lee, Rob and Scott Murray talk about Rangers' greatest European Cup season and have another chat about a Journeyman and an Underrated Hall Of Fame Nominee See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...