GOODIES Liverpool 1977 1978 Buts FR

Match Of the Seventies Season 1978 1979

C3 1989 1990 Juventus Fiorentina Finale Aller

C3 1989 1990 Auxerre Fiorentina

Focus On : Soccer Legends Lee, Bell, Sommerbee

  Employed nowadays on the club's commercial side, Mike Summerbee is still a familiar and much-loved Maine Road face. He first arrived in the summer of 1965, the second signing by Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. A crowd-pleas ing and direct player, at home on the wing or at centre forward, Summerbee played his early football with Swindon Town. His debut for City came at the start of the 1965-66 season, a season in which he didn't miss a single game and City were Division 2 Champions. An influential part of City's triumphs during his time there, his biggest disappointment was missing the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup final with a leg injury.  one-time part owner of a Manchester boutique with George Best, Summerbee has developed a successful shirt business alongside his work with City. His father George, and his son Nick, have also played league football, thereby guaranteeing the name Summerbee remains in the record books. A regular after dinner speaker and someone who always has time for the fans, Mike Summerbee will be forever associated with City as a member of the great trio alongside Francis Lee and Colin Bell.

Champions League 2010 2011 Roma Shakhtar Donetsk

First and Second Leg

uefa champions league 2010/11
round of 16 March 2011
Just a couple weeks ago, Roma were likely the heavy favorites for their Champions League match with Shakhtar Donetsk. After all, despite the fact that Shakhtar took their group, this is the first time the Ukrainian side has made it into the Round of 16. Deep into their winter break, the club hasn't played a competitive match in 70 days. Roma, meanwhile, were flying high in Serie A, believing themselves to have secured a Champions League spot for next year as well. But on the eve of Wednesday's match, Roma haven't won in their last three matches, with two successive defeats seeing them slide down to eighth place.

English Leagues the 70s: Crystal Palace Manchester United Division One 1972 1973

16 December 1972
Selhurst Park,
London

  The end of the 71-72 season saw George Best's increasingly chaotic life unravelling further. At the start of the campaign Best had been in top form and at one point he reeled off 11 goals in a 10-match spell to drive United to the top of the table. But in the New Year he vanished for days and United's title hopes disappeared with him. Astonishingly, despite missing training on numerous occasions and going AWOL between games, Best still managed to play in 40 of United's 42 league matches and finished the club's top scorer yet again with 18 goals. In May 1972 he failed to turn up to play for Northern Ireland against Scotland and he admitted publicly that his drinking was out of control. He escaped to Spain, insisting that he had retired from professional football, aged 26. But his retirement lasted just a fortnight and he returned to Manchester in time for the start of the 1972/73 season. The messy end to his career, though, was in sight. By now United had degenerated into something like anarchy, with the dressing room riven by discontent. Best in open revolt and results in freefall. United opened the new season abysmally, failing to win any of their first nine games and they were knocked out of the League Cup by Bristol Rovers. It was clear that O'Farrell, a mild-mannered man from Cork, was unable to keep a lid on the madness and he was relieved of his duties in December 1972, thanked for his services and paid off with a golden goodbye of about £50.000. He left Old Trafford feeling bitter about his treatment, frustrated that he had never been able to exert any authority while Busby was still around. Many of the players still called him Boss and OTarrell felt he had been let down by him. 'I had never admired a man as much as Matt Busby,' O'Farrell said. 'But when I left Old Trafford I had never been let down by any man as much as by him.' Many of the players, who had not wanned to O'Farrell's self-effacing, low-key character, were glad to see O'Farrell leave. Denis Law said, 'He came a stranger and he left a stranger.'