Coupe des Clubs Champions 1964 1965 Liverpool FC Köln

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24 mars 1965

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The year is 1965 and FC Köln and Liverpool FC are the reigning champions of Germany and England respectively. The George Knopfle-led Köln side had won the inaugural season of the German Bundesliga in 1963-64, spearheaded by their talismanic striker Karl-Heinz Thielen.

With nothing to separate Liverpool and Köln, a replay was arranged on March 24 at the Feijenoord Stadium in Rotterdam. The Reds took an early two-goal lead through strikes from Ian St John and Hunt. But the West Germans hit back with goals from Thielen and Johanns Löhr. The scores were level at 2-2 at the end of the game. Penalties were still five years away to grace club football’s grandest competition.  All eyes turned to Belgian referee Robert Schaut. The tie was to be settled by flipping a coin. Liverpool captain Ron Yeats and his Köln counterpart Overath stood on either side of Schaut at the centre circle; a couple of cameramen shadowing the players. But even something as simple as the toss of a coin involved heavy drama.“I got in first to the referee and said ‘I’ll have tails,” recalled Yeats. “Lucky for me the referee said okay.” Schaut flipped the coin, Yeats and Overath’s gazes closely following the turning of the coin. However, it landed at an angle that made it impossible to determine whether it was heads or tails. “Ref, you’re going to have to re-toss the coin,” said Yeats.

“I thought the German captain was going to hit him. He was going berserk because it was falling over on the heads,” the Liverpool captain recalled. “He picked it up, it went up again, and this time came down tails.”

“We were coming off and who is standing there but Bill Shankly. I was first off the pitch and he said ‘Well done, big man. I am proud of you. What did you pick?’ I said, ‘I picked tails, boss.’ I was waiting for the adulation but he just went, ‘I would have picked tails myself,’ and walked away.”

Thus ended one of the most peculiar European Cup ties of all time.

Tipped to lift the Cup at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon, Liverpool met Inter Milan in the semifinals.

After winning the first leg 3-1 at Anfield, Shankly’s men succumbed to a 3-0 drubbing at San Siro, losing the tie 4-3 on aggregate.

Inter went to beat the Eusebio-led Benfica 1-0 in the final to win their second consecutive European Cup.