1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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My nipper just told me that Nottingham Forest won the 'Champions League' ( he means the European Cup of course ) twice.
I was surprised as my faded memory ( I was 9yrs old at the time ) had them only winning it once.
So out come his football diary, and I was surprised to see this :
1976-77 Rome Liverpool 3-1 Borussia M'Gladbach
1977-78 Wembley Liverpool 1-0 F.C. Bruges
1978-79 Munich Nottingham Forest 1-0 Malmo F F
1979-80 Madrid Nottingham Forest 1-0 SV Hamburg
1980-81 Paris Liverpool 1-0 Real Madrid
1981-82 Rotterdam Aston Villa 1-0 Bayern Munich
1984-85 Heysel Juventus 1-0 Liverpool
1985-86 Seville #Steaua Bucharest 0-0 Barcelona
# = after evtra time and penalties.
A few things.
1) Diary doesn't say who won the 85/86 final ( I'm assuming it's Steaua as they are written first ). I seem to remember a quality Steaua side turning up for a 'Champions League' final and being thouroughly pissed off to see them play for pens (which they won ) right from the KO. I seem to remember that being in the 90's though, and I can't remember the opposition. Am I confusing Steaua with Red Star Belgrade from 90/91 final ?
2) Why no final in 83/84 ? Printing error in his diary or was there really no final that year. If not why ? I can understand a cancellation in 85/86, but not in 83/84.
3) I have memories of watching Aston Villa in a European final on a portable tv outside with my mates under our porch in a thunderstorm. I remember Jimmy Rimmer getting injured or something and a very young Nigel Spinks coming on as sub and being the hero. My memory has Spinks saving a penalty in a penalty shoot though, but this doesn't seem to have actually happened. What occurred then ?
4) I think my theory on why UEFA banned English clubs from Europe after Heysel still holds true though after reading this. Incredible to think that English clubs won the 6 European Cup finals immediately proceeding Heysel. The only clubs that should have got banned were Liverpool and Juventus, but we all know why UEFA decided differently
I was surprised as my faded memory ( I was 9yrs old at the time ) had them only winning it once.
So out come his football diary, and I was surprised to see this :
1976-77 Rome Liverpool 3-1 Borussia M'Gladbach
1977-78 Wembley Liverpool 1-0 F.C. Bruges
1978-79 Munich Nottingham Forest 1-0 Malmo F F
1979-80 Madrid Nottingham Forest 1-0 SV Hamburg
1980-81 Paris Liverpool 1-0 Real Madrid
1981-82 Rotterdam Aston Villa 1-0 Bayern Munich
1984-85 Heysel Juventus 1-0 Liverpool
1985-86 Seville #Steaua Bucharest 0-0 Barcelona
# = after evtra time and penalties.
A few things.
1) Diary doesn't say who won the 85/86 final ( I'm assuming it's Steaua as they are written first ). I seem to remember a quality Steaua side turning up for a 'Champions League' final and being thouroughly pissed off to see them play for pens (which they won ) right from the KO. I seem to remember that being in the 90's though, and I can't remember the opposition. Am I confusing Steaua with Red Star Belgrade from 90/91 final ?
2) Why no final in 83/84 ? Printing error in his diary or was there really no final that year. If not why ? I can understand a cancellation in 85/86, but not in 83/84.
3) I have memories of watching Aston Villa in a European final on a portable tv outside with my mates under our porch in a thunderstorm. I remember Jimmy Rimmer getting injured or something and a very young Nigel Spinks coming on as sub and being the hero. My memory has Spinks saving a penalty in a penalty shoot though, but this doesn't seem to have actually happened. What occurred then ?
4) I think my theory on why UEFA banned English clubs from Europe after Heysel still holds true though after reading this. Incredible to think that English clubs won the 6 European Cup finals immediately proceeding Heysel. The only clubs that should have got banned were Liverpool and Juventus, but we all know why UEFA decided differently