Friendly 1989 Arsenal France

 

   

Charity shield 1974 Leeds liverpool

10 Aout 1974
Wembley Stadium

There wasn’t much goodwill, and precious little football on show, the first time the Charity Shield was held at Wembley. Liverpool beat Leeds United on penalties but the result hardly mattered. The match disintegrated into a series of niggling fouls and ill-tempered clashes, culminating after an hour in a stand-up fist fight between Liverpool’s Kevin Keegan and Leeds captain Billy Bremner. Sent off, they threw their shirts to the ground as they left the field, an image that went around the world and brought condemnation. It was a bitter disappointment for Ted Croker, the FA secretary, whose idea it was that from 1974 the match would pit the champions against the FA Cup holders at Wembley. He made sure that Bremner and Keegan, the first players sent off at Wembley, knew they had disgraced English football. Instead of the usual one- or two-match ban, they were each suspended for 11 games and fined £500, a huge sum in those days.

Aberdeen First 100 Years of the Dons the Official History

100 Years of the Football League 1888 1998

   Eighteen-eighty-eight: Queen Victoria was Queen of Great Britain and Empress of an India on which the sun was still rising. It was a year, too, in which W.G. Grace captained England's cricketers for the first time at the age of 40, John L. Sullivan was the last bareknuckle heavyweight champion of the world and Winston Churchill was an unhappy schoolboy at Harrow. Vincent Van Gogh was still painting, Wyatt Earp still shooting and Florence Nightingale still caring. The pneumatic tyre was invented and, more prettily, less usefully, the first beauty contest was held. It was also the year in which the Football League was founded, the first competition of its kind, a prototype for the mushrooming world of football. The idea was simple and revolutionary, and its champion was a Scot who ran a drapery shop in Birmingham and who later confessed: 'I've never taken part in active football. I tried it once when I was very young and had to take to bed for a week. William McGregor - the father of League football - was a portly, full-bearded Perthshire man of Stirling principles, undeniable optimism and gentle humour. He moved to Birmingham to improve his lot and it was football's luck that the shop he bought was near Villa Park. McGregor joined Aston Villa -and the shape of football began to change.

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Shearer On Shearer The Story

Alan Shearer has justified the status he once held as the world's most expensive footballer by scoring more goals than anyone else since the launch of the Premier League in 1992. Shearer is the first player since the 1930s, the heyday of the bustling, robust English centre-forward, to score more than 30 goals in the top division in three successive seasons. His tally of 34 goals in 1994-95, the middle season of his outstanding run, helped Blackburn Rovers win the championship title for the first time in 81 years. 'Alan is a player in a class of his own,' Kenny Dalglish, the then Blackburn manager, said. 'He lifts the whole team and turns draws into victories. In a word: priceless.' John Barnes, the England winger, described Shearer's value to his team as 'incalculable'. Shearer stands alone as the leading goalscorer in the history of Premier League. Between 1992-93 and the end of 2004-05, he scored 250 league goals for Blackburn and Newcastle United. His outstanding form during the mid-1990s had raised his value in the transfer market seven-fold in the space of five years: from £2.2 million, the fee Dalglish paid Southampton in 1992, to the £15.6 million fee Newcastle United invested in 1996. Shearer has been transferred twice in his career: the first of his transfer fees was a British record; the second was a world record sum for a footballer. It was widely reported that Blackburn refused to sell Shearer to Manchester United earlier in 1997 for fear that his arrival at Old Trafford would make Alex Ferguson's side unbeatable. Jack Walker, the millionaire benefactor at Ewood Park, even offered to make Shearer the player-manager of Rovers, at the age of just 25, in a last-ditch effort to keep him at the club, but the lure of Newcastle United proved too strong for a player who had supported the club as a boy.

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Coupe Uefa 1980 1981 Final Ipswich Town AZ Alkmaar

Aller et Retour

Mai 1985

Les données étaient claires pour les « blues » de Robby Robson : au terme de leur marathon de 63 matches (!), ils n'avaient plus que la Coupe U.E.F.A. pour sauver leur saison. Le titre leur échappait, la Coupe de la League leur échappait, la Cup leur échappait. Il fallait donc aux coéquipiers de Mills remporter une nette victoire aux dépens du nouveau champion de Hollande, AZ'67 Alkmaar.

Coupe Uefa 1980 1981 St Etienne Ipswich Town

Coupe Uefa 1977 1978 RC Lens Lazio

Coupe Uefa 1988 1989 Final Napoli VFB Stuttgart

Finale Aller Retour

Mai 1889

 Les Napolitains, qui font rarement dans la nuance et qui ont, pour ceux qui savent les faire rêver, une véritable adoration disent de Maradona qu'il est le fils de Dieu, voire - et que nos lecteurs croyants ne s'en offusquent point car il ne s'agit que d'une image pieusement impie - Dieu en personne. Dieu-ballon, cela va de soi, Diego lui-même étant un catholique fervent et pratiquant, même s'il a tendance, souvent, à obéir à ses propres dix commandements. En cette fin de printemps 1989 qui annonce un bel été, Naples est donc qualifié pour la finale de la Coupe de l'U.E.F.A alors que c'est le cirque dans ses coulisses. L'entraîneur Ottavio Bianchi, qui en a soupe des déviations en tous genres de son extra-terrestre, clame dans tous les sens qu'il veut s'en aller et que sa dernière année de contrat, eh ! bien, il la balance aux orties. On lui rétorque qu'il ne va pas faire ça, alors qu'il va être incessamment sacré champion d'Europe. « Mais champion d'Europe, ce ne sera pas un exploit. Mon vrai chef d'oeuvre, c'est d'avoir été aussi longtemps entraîneur de Naples. » En finale, Naples accueille le V.F.B. Stuttgart (l'ancien club de Gress et des frères Fôrster). L'équipe allemande, qu'entraîné le Hollandais de partout Arie Haan, a éliminé Tatabanya (2-0, 1-2), Dynamo Zagreb (3-1 ; 1-1), Groningue (3-1, 2-0), Real Sociedad (1-0 ; 0-1, 4 penalties à 2) et Dynamo Dresde (1-0, 1-1). C'est une équipe de grande qualité qui possède en Klinsmann, Allgôwer, Buchwald, Sigurvinsson, Hartmann, des joueurs de premier plan.

Gianni Rivera "I Golden Boy"

The European Cup final: 28 May 1969. Milan were playing the soon-to-be-great Ajax team of Cruyff and Neeskens - at the Bernabeu in Madrid. With fifteen minutes to go, and Milan already 3-1 up, Gianni Rivera played a one-two on the halfway line and broke clear towards the Ajax goal. He pushed the ball past the onrushing goalkeeper but out wide to the by-line. Then, in the black and white film, the game appeared to stop. Rivera, like all great players - Maradona, Platini, Zidane - seemed to be playing in a kind of time capsule. He looked up, waited, changed his mind, moved the ball to his right foot and floated it across to the far post where, seconds earlier, there was just space. Out of nowhere, an attacker rushed forward to meet the ball perfectly with his head. Pierino Prati, the Milan number nine, had begun his run seconds earlier, from 40 yards out. It is difficult to define genius, but Rivera's pass - and his ability to wait - came close. It was a pass to compare with Pele's to Carlos Alberto in the 1970 World Cup final. Born to an unprivileged family during World War Two, Rivera's first games were in the courtyards and streets of the small Piedmontese town of Alessandria, and then in the playground of his neighbourhood church. 

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