StoryCast '21: EP7/21 A Football Fairy Tale
Unreliable Witness | Storycast
Sky News
4.3 • 728 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The game represented not only a collision of football extremes, but economic circumstance. For Bradford, the contest symbolised a broader north-south divide.
So, led by former supermarket-shelf-stacker turned striker James Hanson, they set out to achieve the impossible.
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StoryCast '21: Using the timeframe of the last 21-years, Sky News returns to some of this century's biggest news stories, using the focus of extraordinary personal stories, defined by these events.
CREDITS
A Football Fairy Tale was written and produced by Rob Mulhern
Original idea - Joe Rawson, Sky News Radio Sports Editor
Special thanks to our contributors, James Hanson, Tim Thornton and Carl Smith.
Additional recordings and digital by Tom Gillespie.
Archive, Simon Windsor
Sound design, Rob Mulhern
TV treatment, Gemma Watson
TV output editor, Emily Deeker
Head of Radio, Sky News, Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Chris Scott
Press and Marketing, Alexandra Horton
Email: [email protected]
For more on this story log on to www.skynews/storycast21
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is heading back to the White House. |
| 0:03.1 | Together we can truly make America great again. |
| 0:06.7 | We are in for an unpredictable but fascinating four years. |
| 0:10.3 | And we're going to be following every twist and turn for the first 100 days. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll be bringing you the latest updates and analysis first thing every morning. |
| 0:19.5 | So join me, James McHugh. Me, Martha Kalnick, |
| 0:22.3 | and me, Mark Stone, for Trump 100 every weekday at 6am, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Jane Secker and you're listening to Episode 7 of Storycast 21. |
| 0:39.4 | In 2021, a proposed breakaway of some of Europe's elite football clubs |
| 0:43.8 | threatened to widen the divide between top teams and those who feel increasingly removed from the top tier. |
| 0:51.8 | But a team that cost less than 10,000 pounds to assemble |
| 0:56.0 | struck a blow for the minnows |
| 0:57.9 | and shook up the football establishment in 2012. |
| 1:02.5 | This is a football fairy tale. |
| 1:10.0 | James Hanson |
| 1:11.1 | striking |
| 1:12.6 | you know all you ever dream about is playing at Wembro |
| 1:17.3 | could be a chance Hanson's in behind here |
| 1:19.0 | goes down into a challenge |
| 1:20.4 | my name is Tim Thornton |
| 1:22.3 | I work for Sky Sports News as a sports reporter |
| 1:25.2 | I don't think he played the ball. Hansen went down very easily. |
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