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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast

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Welcome! Join Martyn, David & Adam as we step back in time to our favourite football era. ⚽ Football Nostalgia & Tactical Deep Dives 🎙️ Breaking down UCL history (1992-2014) 📺 Watch, debate, relive the biggest moments!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

1992/93: The season that changed English football: United wobble in March Norwich smashed at Carrow Road Steve Bruce’s late headers = Fergie Time Oldham’s great escape Brian Clough’s farewell The full story of the PL's first title race is live now. youtu.be/S2NJZCuMfts

Fergie Time Begins: United’s First Premier League Title (92/93)

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

From “flop” at Old Trafford to Golden Boot in Spain. We go deep on Forlan’s revival at Villarreal and Atlético, his ridiculous goalscoring run in 08/09, and how he silenced every doubt.

From Man Utd Flop to Golden Boot: Forlán’s Atleti Revival

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

McGrath putting in one of the all-time great seasons. Shearer’s cruel injury shifting the title race. Liverpool in crisis. Episode 3 is live now 🎥👇

McGrath’s Masterclass & Shearer’s Injury What if? 92/93 Premier League

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

UCL 08/09 is HERE: The Dawn of Pep’s Barça 🌟 We get into Scolari’s Chelsea wobble, Spalletti’s Roma, Mourinho’s Inter and how Alves + Messi rewired Europe. Watch now: youtu.be/-UJOKq_oFwE

How Pep Changed Barcelona Forever!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Norwich shock Arsenal. Ferguson stumbles. Shearer arrives. The Premier League’s first season is alive and kicking now - check out in Episode 2!

Premier League 92/93: United Stumble as Norwich Shock!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Zlatan Ibrahimović. Genius or just an ego? 🤔 ⚡ Brilliant at Inter 🔥 Clashed at Barcelona 🤯 Would he have been Zlatan without the arrogance?

Why Zlatan Never Changed For Anyone!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Alan Shearer turned United down. Dion Dublin broke his leg. Eric Cantona walked in. The sliding doors moment that changed the Premier League forever.

Cantona’s Sliding Doors Moment

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Torres at Liverpool = unplayable! 2007/08 wasn’t cautious Rafa Benítez… it was goals, chaos, and one of the most exciting Reds sides we’ve seen.

Torres TRANSFORMS Liverpool!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The Premier League begain in the Summer of ’92. Shearer’s £3.6m record move. Cantona’s Charity Shield hat-trick. Liverpool in turmoil. Arsenal favourites. Blackburn dreaming. Episode 1 of our 92/93 deep dive is live now!

The First Premier League Season: Big Transfers & Bold Dreams

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Messi & Ronaldo explode onto the world stage Torres makes Liverpool unplayable Mourinho sacked after Rosenborg Watch our 2007/08 first episode now 👉

Messi & Ronaldo Era Starts Here

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The 80s: chaos, hooliganism, decline. The 90s: football’s rebirth ⚽✨ The Premier League. The Champions League. A whole new era. How The 90s Kicked Off A New Era In Football! youtube.com/shorts/XFCoy...

How The 90s Kicked Off A New Era In Football!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

In the 90s, Serie A was the best league in the world 🌍 Then its stars came to England… Gullit, Zola, Vialli. And the Premier League was never the same ⚽🇮🇹 When Serie A Stars Took Over the Premier League youtube.com/shorts/A6C9B...

When Serie A Stars Took Over the Premier League

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Football before ’92 was crumbling. Empty terraces. No Europe. Hooliganism. Then Sky TV arrived…and the revolution was televised 📺

How TV Changed Football Forever

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Our new show - The History of the Premier League launched at 12pm today! Come and see David, Martyn and Adam's ugly mugs in glorious technicolour RIGHT NOW on our Youtube channel. Also still available as a podcast as usual later today.

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Mourinho vs Benítez Liverpool vs Chelsea in the 2000s wasn’t about goals - it was about tension, hate, and pure Champions League theatre.

Two Managers Who HATED Each Other!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Kaká tore United apart. Inzaghi scored the most Inzaghi goals ever. Liverpool vs Chelsea went all the way to Anfield penalties. And Milan get their revenge. Join us for the final episode of season 2006/07!

AC Milan's Istanbul REVENGE!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The night a Champions League tie turned into a street fight! Inter vs Valencia, 2007: ⚽ Late equaliser 👊 Navarro’s punch 🔥 Total tunnel madness

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Chaos Inter vs Valencia ERUPTS!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

7-1. Old Trafford shook. Cristiano Ronaldo’s first UCL goals. Wayne Rooney untouchable. Michael Carrick unstoppable. Roma were destroyed in one of the Champions League’s most brutal nights.

Man United Humiliate Roma in 2007

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Turin: Keane drags United to the ’99 final. ❌ Barcelona: he never plays and Utd still win the Treble. But here’s the paradox… Would Roy Keane have made it easier - or stopped destiny itself? 📺 Watch the first ep of our new Sliding Doors miniseries:

Sliding Doors: The 1999 UCL Final With Keane?!

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A Sticker's Worth 500 Words @asw500.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Nutters with putters. astickersworth500words.blogspot.com/2020/07/122-...

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122: Craig Bellamy, Coventry City, Merlin’s F.A. Premier League 2001 Official Sticker Collection

We are in the capable hands of Emlyn Jones for today’s post with another icon of Welsh football. For some bizarre reason EA Sports’ Euro 200...

And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Craig Bellamy. A golf club. The Camp Nou. Liverpool 2007: from dressing room bust-up to one of their greatest European away wins. 📺 Watch the full story here:

The Night Bellamy Silenced Barcelona

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🔴 Liverpool silenced Barcelona at the Camp Nou. ⚪ Man United humiliated Roma 7–1 at Old Trafford. The 2006/07 UCL knockouts full deep dive out now:

Liverpool's Camp Nou MASTERCLASS

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Chelsea vs Barcelona. Drogba at his peak. Liverpool’s strangest finalists. Arsenal turning soft. The 2006/07 Champions League group stage is up this week. 🎧 Full episode now live, watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get podcasts.

UCL 06/07 - Drogba Dominates For Chelsea

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Arsenal were 13 minutes from immortality in Paris. 1-0 up. Down to 10 men. Holding off Ronaldinho’s Barcelona. Then Henrik Larsson stepped off the bench and ripped the dream away. When Arsenal’s Destiny Died | UCL 2005/06 Final youtu.be/YFFUu2cxO0g

When Arsenal’s Destiny Died | UCL 2005/06 Final

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Fergie looked finished. Mourinho looked inevitable. Chelsea went to Old Trafford and smashed United 3-0. The balance of power had shifted. 🎬 Watch now:

How Chelsea Stole Fergie’s Glory!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

🎽 Fiorentina’s Toyota purple. ⚪ Real Madrid in white. 🔵 Rangers rocking Adidas. 🔴 Arsenal’s Dreamcast classic. 🔵🔴 Barcelona’s Kappa masterpiece. Part 2 of our 90s Champions League kits series is live now:

Top 90s Football Shirts That Still Look Awesome!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Everyone says Mourinho’s Chelsea were boring. Defensive. Pragmatic. But look again. They scored goals. Played with flair. And smashed teams. 📺 New short live now:

Chelsea’s Underrated Attack! 💥

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Ronaldinho in 2005/06 was untouchable. Ballon d’Or. Standing ovations. Pure theatre. Was that the last time football felt magical? 🎬 Full episode live now:

Was there a better footballer than Ronaldinho in 2005/06?!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Van der Sar. Ji-Sung Park. Then came Vidic and Evra in January. Fergie was rebuilding… but it still ended in disaster. Roy Keane gone. Champions League collapse. This was a season of transition.

How good were Man Utd’s 2005 Signings?!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

🎽 Ajax’s vertical stripe. ⚡ Dortmund’s neon chaos. 🇮🇹 Juve’s Kappa classic. 🔴 United’s Treble shirt. ⚫ Milan in Lotto elegance. We’ve picked 5 iconic Champions League kits from the 90s that defined an era Part 1 is live now!

Top 5 Champions League Kits: 1990s Icons (Part 1)

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Rangers vs Portuguese teams. Different generations, same strange pattern…they just always turn up. Lovenkrands was flying. Prso bulldozed Porto. What is it about this matchup? 🎬 Watch the short here:

Rangers’ Record: Why They Dominate Portuguese Teams!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The 2005/06 Champions League kicked off with Arsenal rising, Chelsea dominating, and United falling apart. Roy Keane gone. Mourinho rising. 🎧 Full episode out now ⬇️ How Mourinho's Chelsea Shook Ferguson Man Utd! youtu.be/qV629b8-OLk

How Mourinho's Chelsea Shook Ferguson Man Utd!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“This should NOT have happened… but it did.” Milan were 3-0 up. Stacked with legends. Liverpool? Outclassed. And yet - Istanbul happened.

The Craziest Comeback In Football History!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Kaká had four men chasing him. He didn’t break stride. He picked out Crespo with one of the best passes you’ll ever see. That third goal in Istanbul? Football perfection. 🎬 Watch it here:

Kaká’s Assist vs Liverpool Was Pure Genius

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

In the last episode of our Top 5 Series, we finish off with everyone’s favourite position. Numbers tens who could make football feel like magic!

Top 5 Champions League No.10s (1992–2002)

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Maldini. Nesta. Cafu. Pirlo. Kaká. Shevchenko. That 2005 Milan team was STACKED. One of the greatest XIs ever in a Champions League final? Watch the clip now:

Was This the Most Stacked Team in UCL History?

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The “Ghost Goal” that broke Mourinho… Luis García scored - or did he? Chelsea still don’t believe it crossed the line.

The “Ghost Goal” That Broke Mourinho

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

⚽ “This should NOT have happened…” 3-0 down at half-time. Milan were untouchable. But Liverpool? They believed. We break down the chaos, the tactics, the psychology…and how the unthinkable became reality. 🎧 Full Istanbul 2005 episode out now:

How Liverpool STUNNED Milan in Istanbul 2005

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A Sticker's Worth 500 Words @asw500.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Classic Mourinho shithousery. astickersworth500words.blogspot.com/2021/04/mn4-...

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MN4: Jose Mourinho, Chelsea, Topps Match Attax Extra 2014-15

Today is our first Twitterversary and to celebrate we thought we’d subject you all to another collaborative post. Once again we’ve decided t...

And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Mourinho was banned from the touchline… so he hid in a laundry basket. Yes, really. 🎧 Full 04/05 knockout episode live now.

Mourinho Hid in a Laundry Basket. And It Worked.

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

No run-up. No backlift. No right to score really! Ronaldinho toe-poked it through a packed Chelsea defence and made it look easy. One of the most surreal goals in Champions League history? 🎧 Full 04/05 knockout episode out now!

Ronaldinho’s Goal Still Makes No Sense?!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

⚡ Figo. Giggs. Rivaldo. Overmars. Kily González. Before inverted wingers and inside forwards - these lads owned the flanks. We’ve ranked the Top 5 Champions League Wingers (1992–2002). Did your favourite make the cut? 📺 Watch the full video now:

Relive the Magic of the Greatest Champions League Wingers!

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Cafu. Roberto Carlos. Zanetti. Lizarazu. Panucci. The full-backs who ran the Champions League in the 90s and early 2000s. We’ve dropped our Top 5 — now it’s your turn to vote 👇 🗳️ Head to our YouTube Community tab: youtube.com/post/UgkxYKb...

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We’ve ranked our Top 5 Champions League Full-Backs from 1992–2002 — but now it’s your turn to decide who owned the flanks in Europe’s golden era 👇 ⚔️ Whether...

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Arsenal won the league, was that when the decline started? While Chelsea went all-in, Arsenal trusted the academy. 20 years later…they’re still waiting to return. 📺 Full UCL episode also covers Chelsea vs Barca, Milan’s control, and more

Did Arsenal’s Fall Start The Moment They Won?

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

20 years after Heysel, Liverpool faced Juventus in a massive UCL quarter-final. Rafa Benítez got it absolutely right - again.  Was he the ultimate knockout coach… or just never built for league success? 🎧 Full episode live now!

Was Rafa Benítez the Ultimate One-Off Match Coach?

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Mourinho banned. Ronaldinho toe-pokes. Chelsea vs Barca turns into war. Red cards, tunnel drama, laundry baskets - the 2005 tie was something else! 📺 Watch the full 04/05 knockout rounds episode now:

UCL’s Wildest Tie: Mourinho vs Ronaldinho | Chelsea vs Barcelona 2005

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Adriano had it all. Power. Pace. That left foot. In 2005, he looked like Brazil’s next R9. But it wasn't to be. One of the biggest “what ifs” in Champions League history? 🎧 Full story drops in Tuesday's podcast.

Adriano Was Meant to Be the Next R9

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

People doubted Capello… But Juventus had depth, power, and control - and he built something efficient. 🎧 Listen to the full episode now or watch on YouTube:

Capello’s Comeback: The Manager We Misjudged?

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Berbatov had that rare quality - he made time slow down. Technique, vision, class. Check out that velvet touch in action! 🎧 Listen to the full episode now or watch on YouTube:

Berbatov: The Striker With a Velvet Touch

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And It’s Live! A Retro Football Podcast @anditslivepod.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We’ve ranked the Top 5 Champions League Full-Backs (1992–2002). Who’s your No.1? 📺 Watch the full video now:

Ranking The Best UCL Full-Backs of the 90s Era

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