The Final Countdown - Football History's stories of glory and heartbreak in the biggest finals

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!! Merry Christmas one and all - it's our traditional end of year Christmas Special with our high-drama football quiz game; Tension! We also check in on our pre-season predictions to see whether we're Nostradamus or more Derek Acorah.

See who doubted Erling Haaland, who predicted relegation for Nottingham Forest and a most polarizing disagreement on the fate of Erik Ten Hag!

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats!

We've covered the final between Portugal and Greece in one of our most popular episodes (listen here!) so we thought we'd revisit the tournament through a different lens and answer the question: "Was this really England's golden generation?"

Rooney is unstoppable in this breakout tournament, Ronaldo is tamed by Ashley Cole but ultimately Portugal's goalkeeper Ricardo beats England with some ultimate playground shithousery!

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats!

It's the Millennium and the Golden Goal is taking international football by storm! France are looking to cement their reign as the best team in the world and England are hoping to finally achieve something of worth *SPOILER* one of those things happens!

Euro 2000 is memorable for it's goals and scoreline and how could it not be with Figo, Trezeguet, Kluivert, Owen and Milosevic spearheading their nations attacks!

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats!

"You better remember where you watched this game because in thirty years time somebody will probably ask you about it." The epic sign off from Des Lynam following the epic semi-final clash between England and Germany.

We of course talk about Gazza, Anderton, Southgate and even some German, Kuntz.

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats.

It's here! Arguably the episode that this Pod was made for! The year is 1996, Lightning Seeds are blaring from passing car windows, England is hosting a major tournament and Paul Gascoigne is visiting Dentists...kinda?!

This episode was jam-packed with memories, nostalgia and joy so we had to split it for our first ever two-parter! Also, let's be honest this episode is all about England so the final itself is only lightly touched on, so sorry Germany! But this is the story of Venables and co!

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats.

The biggest upset in Euro's history by a team that hadn't even qualified for the tournament first time round! The plucky Danes defied the odds and met the titanic force of Germany in the final but there were plenty of stories en route to the showpiece!

We talk about the legendary Laudrup brothers, the story of Kim Vilfort's heroics (in more ways than one) and try to answer the question about whether Denmark were in fact deserved winners?

We have previously spoken about this final in a different report, so click here to listen in to that one!

A tournament scattered with icons: Gullit, Matthäus, Rijkaard, Vialli but there is one man that rises above all others, a certain Mr Marco Van Basten!!! We discuss his amazing tournament, the Soviet Union's epically named goalkeeper and a possible new nickname for Wayne Rooney. Of course, we also discuss the Euro 1988 final between the Netherlands and Soviet Union!

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats

An absolute corker of a tournament sees hosts France light up the Euro's and sees Spain surprise everyone by reaching the final.

Michel Platini is in ridiculous goalscoring form, Germany fail to impress and we also find out about Jean Tigana's deathly fear of penalties!!!

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats.

This is The Final Countdown. A podcast dedicated to all the great finals from the annals of football. Each week your hosts, Adam and Lewis, will do a deep dive (with a generous helping of nostalgia and humour) into one of the greats.

The Euro's continue to grow in stature as does Germany. So is this the origin of German efficiency? We answer the question of whether Antonin Panenka is Keyser Söze and we discover whose nickname was "The Header Beast"!

Our hosts go head-to-head in their predictions for the season ahead! It's a shoot from the hip pod as Lewis and Adam give their answers to the following categories: Top 5, Relegation Candidates, Top Scorer, Surprise Package and Biggest Shock...

Get in touch and let us know your predictions and why not leave a 5* rating whilst you're at it?