The Football Reporters: Why football empires fall … and Man City’s may be next

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

James Olley, Rob Dawson and Mark Ogden look at the fallen empires of football with Steve Nicol, and wonder if Manchester City may be next. James, Rob and Mark look for the telltale signs of a top team falling from grace in the current Manchester City setup, before ESPN FC’s Steve Nicol joins to explain where it went wrong for the Liverpool side of the 1980s and early 1990s that Nicol himself was at the club to experience first-hand. The guys close with a look back at the end of the Sir Alex Ferguson era at Manchester United and the unprecedented lack of success that has followed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.5	Hello and welcome to the football reporters. What happens when a super club falls apart?
0:43.6	Manchester City may have returned to something like normal following their unprecedented
0:47.8	bad run of results, but that run at the back end of last year almost certainly signalled
0:52.5	the end of city's dominance in the Premier League.
0:55.5	What could be next in store for PEP and Co?
0:58.0	Will it follow what happened to Manchester United at the end of Fergie's reign or after the end of the great Liverpool team in the early 1990?
1:05.5	Well, I'm James Olly. I'm joined by Mark Ogden and Rob Dawson.
1:09.7	How are we, gentlemen?
1:11.1	It's obviously a big Champions League week, Europa League week ahead.
1:15.3	Where are we?
1:15.9	Where are we going?
1:17.2	Yeah, well, after Paris, PSGV-V-Mans City,
1:19.4	it's a much bigger game than we expected at this stage of the competition.
1:22.4	And who knows?
1:23.0	I mean, if City lose, it could be the relegation zone as the final group gave. So it's a big week for both teams.
1:28.6	And I've got United Rangers in the Europa League on Thursday, Battle of Britain.
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