The Greatest Champions League Finals of All Time

Welcome back to It Was What It Was, the football history podcast. In this week's episode, co-hosts Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper pick their six greatest European Cup and Champions League finals of all time.

From the 127,000 who stayed to applaud Real Madrid's 7-3 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960, to Ajax passing Juventus into submission in 1973 and Pep Guardiola's Barcelona spearheaded by Xavi flying to the title at Wembley in 2011. 

Wilson and Draper trace the tactical revolutions, romantic triumphs, and spectacular collapses that defined European football's greatest competition. 

With Arsenal facing PSG in this week's Champions League final, will Mikel Arteta join the elite list of managers who have won Europes’s elite competition or will Luis Enrique go back to back with PSG?

00:00 Introduction — Champions League Final Week

06:30 Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1960)

19:20 Ajax 1-0 Juventus (1973)

34:50 AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1994) 

42:15 Celtic 2-1 Inter Milan (1967) 

53:40 Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United (2011) 

58:10 Benfica 5-3 Real Madrid (1962) 

01:03:20 Why Not 1999 or 2005? — And Can PSG Become an All-Time Great?

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