A decade of 80s football: 1984/85
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A season of agony and ecstasy with tragedies unfolding at Bradford and Heysel, both the subjects of separate podcasts in this series. We concentrate on the on-pitch issues in this one, Howard Kendall’s Everton emerging to take Liverpool’s crown from them, winning the Cup Winners’ Cup too and coming within a whisker of becoming the 20th century’s third double winners, beaten in the FA Cup final by Manchester United. There’s a League Cup win - and relegation - for Norwich, Oxford replace them in the top flight, and Manchester City are promoted by the skin of their teeth. 
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