Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Champions League 2010 2011 Tottenham Milan AC
Round of 8 Second Leg9 March 2011
White Hart Lane, London
Referee: F. De Bleeckere
Attendance: 34320
One of the biggest nights in Tottenham's history lies ahead as AC Milan travel to White Hart Lane for the second leg of their UEFA Champions League last-16 tie. Arsenal may have surrendered a winning position to bow out of Europe at the hands of tournament favourites Barcelona on Tuesday evening, but Spurs have home advantage against Milan and an away goal in the bag after winning 1-0 at the San Siro last month. Harry Redknapp's men earned plaudits for their organised, professional approach in Italy, where Peter Crouch netted a potentially decisive late strike following a lightning break from Aaron Lennon.
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FA Cup 1967 1968 Leeds Nottingham Forest
Elland Road Leeds
17th of Febuary 1968
Attendance 51,739
Most football lovers have an allegiance not just to a club but to a particular team, the sequence of their names hard-wired into the memory, ready to be produced at the appropriate moment. It's a way, not least, of proving one's authenticity: by rolling out the names of Thompson, Whare, McDonald, Burkitt, McKinlay, Whitefoot, Dwight, Quigley, Wilson, Gray and Imlach, I demonstrate my right to be considered a Nottingham Forest fan. But maybe remembering an FA Cup winning team, even one from 1959, is not much more of a feat than reciting the names of Alf Ramsey's England heroes of 1966. So I reinforce my claim by rattling off another XI: Grummitt, Hindley, Winfield, Hennessey, McKinley, Newton, Lyons, Barnwell, Baker, Wignall and Storey-Moore, runners-up in the old First Division in 1966-67, left. And it's amusing to realise that such feats of memory are extended even to the enemies of that era: Sprake, Reaney, Cooper, Bremner, Charlton, Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles and Gray.
Uefa Cup 1984 1985 Real Madrid Tottenham
Quarter-finals, First and Second Leg
The only time these sides have met in a competitive tie was in the quarter-final of the 1984-85 UEFA Cup. Real Madrid won the first leg at White Hart Lane 1-0 when Tottenham's Steve Perryman turned Emilia Butragueno's cross from the right into his own net after only 15 minutes. It was the first time Tottenham had lost at home in European competition. Up until that point they had won 35 and drawn seven of their 45 matches. Flashback: Perryman and Camacho exchange pennants prior to their UEFA Cup quarter-final 2nd leg at the Bernabeu It was also the first time they had failed to score at home in European games. That goal was enough to settle the tie as the second leg at the Bernabeu finished goalless with Perryman having another howler - getting sent off in the 78th minute for a body check on Jorge Valdano. Madrid went on to win the trophy that year with a 3-2 victory over Inter Milan in the semi-finals and a 3-1 aggregate win over the Hungarian side Videoton in the final. Seeing red: Perryman is sent-off by referee Bruno Galler for a foul on Valdano...Monday, March 8, 2021
Champions League 2010 2011 Roma Shakhtar Donetsk
First and Second Leg
uefa champions league 2010/11round 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 1972Selhurst 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.'
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