Final Second leg
Nep Stadium
11 September 1968
11 September 1968
Originally, the Final was
supposed to be played the following week, but the Warsaw Pact's invasion
of Czechoslovakia earlier that year now led to a lengthy delay and even
the prospect of the tie being declared void. Many clubs can claim ail
manner of bizarre reasons for post-ponements. Indeed, the subject has
become the staple of radio phone-in shows over the last few years - but
few could boast that the intervention of General Secretary Brezhnev and
Cold War tensions almost handed them a European trophy on a plate. Revie
and the Hungarians were adamant that the game should go ahead, and once
UEFA, or EUFA as it was still known in the UK, had withdrawn their
provocative proposai to segregate Eastern and Western European teams in
future, the match was officially sanctioned for the second week in
September. It turned out to be the most valiant performance in the
club's history.
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