Modern football was here. The Premier League and Champions League were in full voice, the world game had been taken to the States and produced the last 24-team World Cup to grand acclaim. The ball was now in UEFA's court, and they were determined to one-up FIFA.

They brought the game back to its roots and set about making the Euros bigger and grander than ever. Would the tournament that is consistently peppered onto the screens of every British television every two years live up to the rose-tinted spectacles that has reigned unabated for the past quarter century? This EURO 96: The Nostalgia Euros.

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Literature I read to make Issue #1:
The Anatomy of England (Jonathan Wilson)
Brilliant Oranje (David Winner)
Calcio (John Foot)
Danish Dynamite (Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen, Mike Gibbons)
Das Reboot (Raphael Honigstein)
The Eastern European Chronicles I & II (These Football Times)
Euro Summits (Jonathan O'Brien)
Golden (James Kelly)
La Roja (Jimmy Burns)
Tor! (Uli Hesse)

00:00 – Introduction
00:45 – Road to England
09:00 – Group A
15:35 – Group B
19:40 – Group C
24:10 – Group D
27:20 – Knockout Stage
40:10 – In Conclusion