As Europe’s top national football teams prepare for this summer’s UEFA European Championships, ESPN Classic is helping viewers get ready with a celebration of some of the tournament’s most memorable matches. Enjoy the exhilarating drama and legendary stories of Europhoria, only on ESPN Classic (Sky 429, Virgin 533). Dream XI 28th May – 7th June, every night is at 10pm As part of your Europhoria experience, ESPN Classic has put together a Dream XI from the tournament’s… read more
For many years following the invention of television, the Tour de France was thought to be an impossible event to bring inside the world’s living rooms. But the advent of hand-held cameras aboard motorbikes and helicopter ‘overhead’ shots brought the event to life during the 1960s. Since then – the glory days of Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx – the event has become a world favourite; a highlight of many TV summer schedules. ESP...read more
Young fans of the beautiful game may find it difficult to believe that, just 20 years ago, English league football was considered to be one of Europe’s soccer backwaters; a place where thuggish players plied their trade before violent fans inside ancient, decaying stadiums. The creation of the Premier League in August 1992 certainly marked a new beginning, as skilful continental players such as Cantona, Zola and Bergkamp added a fresh dimension...read more
The countdown to 2012’s European Championships is now well under way. And, as this May’s selection of action on ESPN Classic shows, European Championship encounters are often much more entertaining than their world cup counterparts, and have regularly featured the continent’s best-known football superstars at the height of their powers. Michel Platini, for instance, lit up the 1984 championships for France, and his country’s 3-2 wi...read more
ESPN Classic celebrates the UEFA European Championship’s greatest moments providing you with a month packed of official UEFA documentaries and dedicated programming on the greatest players, moments and matches from its fifty-two year history. It’s the tournament that always delivers the most epic games and greatest heroes. Like the World Cup, these football Championships take place only once every four years. Renowned as one of Footba...read more
UEFA’s Champions League is a world-leading competition, but it’s the European football federation’s European Championship tournaments that truly ignite national pride – the next of which is now just a couple of months away. This April, a specially commissioned series of programmes examines and illustrates each major country’s European Championship history, including England, Germany, Italy and present title-holders Spain. Plus, the tour...read more
