Football trivia question

George Hannah said:
Leppings Lane Stand re-opened?
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No, but it’s related indirectly to the Hillsborough disaster.


Basically, this was the first season after Hillsborough, and one of the immediate repercussions was for the FA and the Police to try and control the number of away fans travelling to fixtures.

This was our first season back in the top flight, so with only the West Stand seats available,and unsure of how many City fans would travel to Sheffield on New Year's Day, it was announced that the game would be all-ticket with an early morning kick off.

Unfortunately there was a misunderstanding between Sheffield Wednesday and ITV, (who held the TV Rights at the time)

Consequently, the cameras arrived at 3pm, and the game is now remembered as the last Top Flight game that doesn’t have any film evidence whatsoever.

This was particularly frustrating for the Wednesday legend David Hirst who opened the scoring, before spending most of the second half in goal.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
No, but it’s related indirectly to the Hillsborough disaster.


Basically, this was the first season after Hillsborough, and one of the immediate repercussions was for the FA and the Police to try and control the number of away fans travelling to fixtures.

This was our first season back in the top flight, so with only the West Stand seats available,and unsure of how many City fans would travel to Sheffield on New Year's Day, it was announced that the game would be all-ticket with an early morning kick off.

Unfortunately there was a misunderstanding between Sheffield Wednesday and ITV, (who held the TV Rights at the time)

Consequently, the cameras arrived at 3pm, and the game is now remembered as the last Top Flight game that doesn’t have any film evidence whatsoever.

This was particularly frustrating for the Wednesday legend David Hirst who opened the scoring, before spending most of the second half in goal.
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I 'm glad you told us early, that answer had the potential to torture us for weeks ;)
 
Newcastle won the Inter City Fairs Cup in 1969 - having entered the tournament when finishing 10th in League Division 1 the previous season.
How / why did they enter it when finishing 10th - at a time when only 4 teams entered it and the FA Cup winners entered the Cup Winners Cup (and the Champions went in the European Cup)?
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Newcastle won the Inter City Fairs Cup in 1969 - having entered the tournament when finishing 10th in League Division 1 the previous season.
How / why did they enter it when finishing 10th - at a time when only 4 teams entered it and the FA Cup winners entered the Cup Winners Cup (and the Champions went in the European Cup)?
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Something to do with the one club per city rule?
I know this was still in place until the mid 70s when Everton successfully challenged UEFA after initially being ineligible due to Liverpool already qualifying.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Something to do with the one club per city rule?
I know this was still in place until the mid 70s when Everton successfully challenged UEFA after initially being ineligible due to Liverpool already qualifying.
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Correct - City won the league so qualified for the European Cup.
The rags were second but also won the European Cup so they remained in that competition for the following season.
3rd and 4th were Liverpool and Leeds who qualified for the Inter City Fairs Cup.
Everton were 5th and couldn't qualify because Liverpool had, so Chelsea took the 3rd spot finishing 6th.
Spurs were 7th and were crossed out because Chelsea had qualified. West Brom were 8th - they won the FA Cup and entered the ECWC.
Arsenal were 9th and they fell foul the same way Spurs did - so it was left to Newcastle, in 10th place, to be the 4th English club to qualify - and they went on to win it!

Frank Clark and Wyn Davies were in the Geordies side that won the cup!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Correct - City won the league so qualified for the European Cup.
The rags were second but also won the European Cup so they remained in that competition for the following season.
3rd and 4th were Liverpool and Leeds who qualified for the Inter City Fairs Cup.
Everton were 5th and couldn't qualify because Liverpool had, so Chelsea took the 3rd spot finishing 6th.
Spurs were 7th and were crossed out because Chelsea had qualified. West Brom were 8th - they won the FA Cup and entered the ECWC.
Arsenal were 9th and they fell foul the same way Spurs did - so it was left to Newcastle, in 10th place, to be the 4th English club to qualify - and they went on to win it!

Frank Clark and Wyn Davies were in the Geordies side that won the cup!
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Those early tournaments had some strange teams, and even stranger formats.
In fact in 1960-61 Barcelona lost to Hibs in the Quarter Final of the Fairs Cup, yet still reached the Final of the European Cup.

Something I never knew until recently was that on March 23rd 1957 a London XI, featuring both John Bond and Malcolm Allison lost to a Frankfurt XI
 
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