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Great shout from @Sidney
Great shout from @Sidney[/QUOTE]
@Mark Renton will be seething when he sees that horrible post from you, mate. They all look the same to you I suppose.
Year? 1993?
August 1992. To coincide with Sky’s coverage of the Premier League launch.
Is Paul Dickov the Arsenal chap?
opening game ?
Forest 1 Liverpool 0 - teddy Sheringham? followed by the reinvention of football as we know it and the true beginning of the EPL as monday night football saw QPR draw 1-1 at man city, all other football records , lists, achievements became obselete from that moment,
Later that year we had the Battle of Britain as Rangers put Leeds out of the European Cup in the second round , the “champions league” came into being as the last 8 were divided into 2 groups of 4 , Rangers just being pipped for a spot in the final by a Rudi Voeller inspired Marseilles, Celtic were put out of the UEFA cup loosing 5-0 against Neuchetal Xamax in October.
Forest went on to endure a torturous season, Gary Bannister stumbled along up front before we were finally releagated loosing 2-0 at home to sheffield united at the city ground on a typical grey, humid May Saturday for Cloughie’s last game
Was there also some controversy with Leeds in their first round eurpoean cup game in the september? did the opposition field an illegal player or something? i remember them winning a game behind closed doors in Spain for some reason on a Friday night
@Sidney ?
No, David Hillier
@mickee321 - I have vague recollections of journeyman attacker Carl Shutt coming up trumps for Leeds in that rematch/replay on neutral ground. Did this actually happen or is my mind playing tricks on me?
[QUOTE=“mickee321, post: 929897, member: 367”]opening game ?
Forest 1 Liverpool 0 - teddy Sheringham? followed by the reinvention of football as we know it and the true beginning of the EPL as monday night football saw QPR draw 1-1 at man city, all other football records , lists, achievements became obselete from that moment,
Later that year we had the Battle of Britain as Rangers put Leeds out of the European Cup in the second round , the “champions league” came into being as the last 8 were divided into 2 groups of 4 , Rangers just being pipped for a spot in the final by a Rudi Voeller inspired Marseilles, Celtic were put out of the UEFA cup loosing 5-0 against Neuchetal Xamax in October.
Forest went on to endure a torturous season, Gary Bannister stumbled along up front before we were finally releagated loosing 2-0 at home to sheffield united at the city ground on a typical grey, humid May Saturday for Cloughie’s last game
Was there also some controversy with Leeds in their first round eurpoean cup game in the september? did the opposition field an illegal player or something? i remember them winning a game behind closed doors in Spain for some reason on a Friday night
@Sidney ?[/QUOTE]
Like the illegal player Stuttgart brought on as a substitute with about two minutes left, I’ll field this one.
Stuttgart had originally gone through on away goals at Elland Road but brought on an illegal sub. Despite the rules saying that Stuttgart should have been thrown out, UEFA, in a typically anti-English decision, fudged the issue in a way the GAA would have been proud of and ordered a one-off match to be played at a neutral venue. Thinking that the tie would attract world interest they decided to play it in Europe’s biggest football stadium (Nou Camp) and got the smallest crowd for a European Cup match I can remember (about 3,000 I think). Carl Shutt got the winner in a 2-1 win for Leeds.
Celtic lost 5-1 at Neuchatel in the 91-92 season.
[QUOTE=“Sidney, post: 929922, member: 183”]Like the illegal player Stuttgart brought on as a substitute with about two minutes left, I’ll field this one.
Stuttgart had originally gone through on away goals at Elland Road but brought on an illegal sub. Despite the rules saying that Stuttgart should have been thrown out, UEFA, in a typically anti-English decision, fudged the issue in a way the GAA would have been proud of and ordered a one-off match to be played at a neutral venue. Thinking that the tie would attract world interest they decided to play it in Europe’s biggest football stadium (Nou Camp) and got the smallest crowd for a European Cup match I can remember (about 3,000 I think). Carl Shutt got the winner in a 2-1 win for Leeds.
Celtic lost 5-1 at Neuchatel in the 91-92 season.[/QUOTE]
thats is incorrect Sid, it was 100% september 192 that game took place,
yes, i believe he scored the winner in the Nou Camp
I had just avoided being molested in the sarcistry after performing a flawless piece of alterboy work for the 7-30pm first friday mass and ran off home to watch the game on HTV
Not so. Celtic played FC Koln in the UEFA Cup in September 1992. I remember watching the first leg at about 5pm one evening on a German satellite TV station that was broadcast as part of the Astra satellite package we got the previous March, before running off to hurling training.
sid im virtually certain it was the 92-93 season that they were hammered by neuchetal, mike galloway scored for them as well,
i was in first year in school and used to write down all the scores in some sports diary i got the previous christmas, i remembered i hated woodwork even after a few weeks of doing it and was writing some report on how to make a pencil holder whilst listening to roddy forsyth’s report on bbc radio 2, incidentally i had moved on to a cassette holder by the time Rangers played Club Brugges in the last 8 group stage game in march, i was still shit at woodwork tho
[QUOTE=“mickee321, post: 930082, member: 367”]sid im virtually certain it was the 92-93 season that they were hammered by neuchetal, mike galloway scored for them as well,
i was in first year in school and used to write down all the scores in some sports diary i got the previous christmas, i remembered i hated woodwork even after a few weeks of doing it and was writing some report on how to make a pencil holder whilst listening to roddy forsyth’s report on bbc radio 2, incidentally i had moved on to a cassette holder by the time Rangers played Club Brugges in the last 8 group stage game in march, i was still shit at woodwork tho[/QUOTE]
which would have been october 1992 when they played Neuchetal, i stand corrected sid,
the pencil holder was made in october, the key holder , that was the first project was in september
October '91. Borussia Dortmund eliminated Celtic from the 92/93 UEFA Cup in the next round after Celtic had come back to beat Cologne.
fair play @Sidney
i had to resort to google which is a coward’s way out as this was buggering me all evening
here are the goals anyway
Two parter.
First side in the European Cup/Champions League to dethrone the champions in consecutive seasons.
It only happened once subsequently, who were the other side to do it.
CSKA Sofia beat both Liverpool and Forest in the 80’s so I’d imagine thats one anyway?
Yeah, CSKA Sofia the first to do it.
Royal Madrid knocked out Porto and PSV when both were defending champions.