The West Germans called the European Championship of 1980 'a hideous disfigurement of football'. And they won the bloody thing!

Martyn is joined by Jonathan O'Brien, author of the brilliant 'Euro Summits', to discuss the championship that nearly ended the whole enterprise. Poor football and even poorer crowds, it was a footballing summer that was almost so bad it was good and, sometimes, those are the most fascinating of all...

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