S11E60 Euro 92 Throwback 1: The Heavyweights - Netherlands and Germany

It’s been 30 years since Scotland’s inaugural appearance at a European Championship Finals, and to commemorate the occasion, John Bleasdale takes a look at the fortunes of each side who participated at the tournament held in Sweden. He begins by assessing two of Scotland’s heavyweight rivals in Group Two – defending European Champions Netherlands and reigning World Champions Germany, who reunified from the West and East split just shy of two years earlier. John is joined by Dutch international Bryan Roy, who started all of Netherlands’ games at Euro ’92 alongside Marco Van Basten and Dennis Bergkamp in attack. Bryan gives an in-depth view of the Dutch side from their qualifying campaign through to the finals, with the expectation being to defend their trophy. He recalls the pain and anguish of going out in the Semi Finals to eventual surprise winners Denmark. In part two, John is joined by podcaster for The Yellow Wall Podcast Matthias Suuck to assess the Germans campaign. Matthias picks the bones as to why the Germans had a mixed qualification campaign and how they stumbled their way to the final without looking overly impressive, which included a rather fortunate victory over Scotland. Having got through to the Final in Gothenburg, Matthias then summarises the shock that the World Champions then lost 2-0 to Denmark and missed out on adding the European Championship trophy to the World Cup won in Italy two years earlier. Music – “The Sesh” by PG Ciarletta (@PGCiarletta) Intro - Paul Mitchell (@pwmcomms) This podcast is sponsored by Supernova Terracewear, who are giving listeners of this podcast 10% off their next order. Visit www.supernovaterracewear.com and enter EURO92 in the discount code option when you checkout. We thank Supernova Terracewear for their continued support of the podcast. Remember you can get free shipping and 20% off any product at uk.manscaped.com with the code SFF20. #ad Thanks also to our other Fantasy Football Scotland prize sponsors: Surprise Shirts and Mind, Body and Sole UK. Tweet us @sffpodcast Instagram - sffpodcast Facebook - Scottish Football Forums Email - [email protected]