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English Leagues the 70s: Derby County Leeds United Division One 1975 1976

1rst November 1975
Baseball Ground,
Derby

 After the upheaval at Elland Road, a man with ability to soothe a troubled club was needed for the hottest of managerial jobs. Despite the Clough affair, the club's stature ensured plenty of candidates and in Jimmy Armfield, United acquired a man with an excellent footballing brain and a calming influence. Quiet and unassuming, the pipe-smoking Armfield, aged 38, was relatively inexperienced on the managerial front, but had a long and distinguished playing career behind him. Born in Blackpool in September 1935, he played a record 568 League games for the Bloomfield Road club, was capped 43 times by England at right-back and skippered his country. His immaculate temperament earned him the nickname of 'Gentleman Jim' and in his first managerial post, at Bolton, he gained the Trotters the Third Division title in 1972-3. The Leeds board deliberated at length before announcing Armfield's appointment and he proved a steadying hand on the tiller as he guided Leeds through troubled waters.

Club Spotlight : Derby County Story

    In 1884, association football, the me which had developed in the iglish public schools when those establishments took up the old mob game and evolved an organized, disciplined football, was gaining rapidly in popularity. The previous year Black-bum Olympic, a team of working-class lads from Lancashire, had won the FA Cup and broken the stranglehold of the public school and services teams. In 1884, Blackburn Rovers followed the example of their neighbours and won the Cup, and the face of football was changed forever. In Derby, local soccer was already well established. The Derbyshire Football Association had been formed in 1883 and Derby Midland was the leading local club. Midland, the works team of the local railway company, reached the third round of the FA Cup in 1883-4 and another Derbyshire learn, Staveley, went one stage further before bowing out to Blackburn Rovers, the eventual winners. It was against this background that Derby County Football Club was formed in 1884. The club was an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club and during the spring of that year, William Morley, a clerk at the Midland Railway, discussed with other enthusiasts the possibility of forming a senior football team for the town. His father, William senior, was a cricket club committee member and he put the idea forward officially. Derbyshire CCC was in a trough — the side were to lose all ten games in 1884 — and as the first Derbyshire Cup Final, between Midland and Staveley in March 1884, had attracted a crowd of some 7,000 10 (he County Ground — 'the largest attendance ever seen at a football contest in Derby' — so the cricket club probably felt that a football section could aid its precarious finances.

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Leeds United Season Review 2000 2001

It must rank as the greatest season in Leeds United's modern history as Rio Ferdinand, Alan Smith, Mark Viduka and company took Europe fly storm. Nobody will forget those spectacular away wins over Lazio and Anderlecht that made Leeds the stars of the Champions League. There were also unforgettable games against European giants AC Milan, Real Madrid and Barcelona. And while David OLearys boys blazed a trail across Europe they also produced a stunning Premier League revival that ensured United clinched a qualifying berth for the UEFA Cup. En route Leeds paid a record £ 18 million tee for Rio Ferdinand who is emerging as one of the world's finest defenders. 2000-01 was a momentous season... and here's the proof. Manchester United, Arsenal and Leeds carried the torch for English football in the Champions' League - and all three enjoyed memorable campaigns, though il was Leeds who came closest to a remarkable place in the Champions' League final. They had to qualify for the right to participate but overcame Tsv Munich, winning 2-1 at home - despite having Olivier Dacourt and Eirik Bakke sent off - and 1-0 away. That look Leeds into the first group - and a 4-0 thrashing by Barcelona. Yet a Lee Bowyer goal earned Leeds a memorable win over AC Milan and, following a 6-0 home win and 0-0 away draw with Besiktas, they held Barcelona 1-1 at Elland Hoad, where only an equaliser in the fourth minute of added time from Rivaldo denied Leeds a famous win. 

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Coupe de France 1983 1984 Metz Monaco Finale

11 May 1984
Parc des Princes,
Paris
Attendance 45 384
Referee : M. Vautrot

  L'équipe messine est assurément, en ce mois de mai 1984, en total état de grâce. L'opinion publique la situe mal pourtant et la croit offerte en martyre du cirque au féroce appétit de l'A.S. Monaco. Tout ou presque plaide en fadeur de cette analyse, l'équipe monégasque ayant réussi une dizaine de matches de valeur internationale cette saison et l'équipe lorraine ayant été plus souvent à la peine qu'en réussite ; le potentiel technique de l'une n'ayant rien de comparable avec le niveau de l'autre ; neuf internationaux occupant le camp monégasque pour un seul dans le camp messin. Bref, le déséquilibre complet dans tous les domaines, celui de l'argent et de la prime de victoire n'étant évoqué que pour mémoire. Mais, de tout temps, la finale de la Coupe a pris en compte d'autres valeurs que celles du jeu proprement dit et répercuté, exacerbé, rédivers comme l'identité à une région plus ou moins traumatisée, la communion avec une petite collectivité de quinze hommes, la volonté d'aller au bout de soi-même, l'ambition, le défi, la fierté. Et tout ce que l'on ne devine pas qui peut habiter un sportif dans ses ressorts intimes.

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Scottish League 1985 1986 "The Old Firm" Rangers Celtic

22 March 1986
Ibrox Park,
Glasgow
Attendance 44000

  On the morning of the final Old Firm derby of the 1985-86 season, the Daily Mirror ran a transfer exclusive ahead of the looming deadline. "Terry Butcher will be on the move from Ipswich before next Thursday's transfer deadline – and Manchester United are favourites to sign him. United boss Ron Atkinson will make a £650,000 bid ... Tottenham and Arsenal are also keen to snap up Butcher, but Spurs are struggling to raise money and the uncertainty over the manager's position at Arsenal makes it unlikely that they will move in. That leaves the field for United." Anyway, up in Glasgow, what a match. In tempest at Ibrox, and with Davie Cooper dropped to the bench by Jock Wallace in favour of Ally McCoist, the two rivals served up a classic. Mo Johnston turned in the opener for Celtic. Brian McClair quickly prodded home a second. Celtic's Willie McStay was then sent off after half an hour for two bookings, having managed to clatter Ted McMinn four times in the opening changes. With 10 minutes of the half remaining, Ian Durrant and Ally McCoist set up Cammy Fraser to head Rangers back into the game.

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World Cup 1974 Yugoslavia Zaire

 

 

Roberto Bettega "Amore Bianconero"