Juventus UEFA Cup 1976/77

[darrenwassall]

didn't barnes rip them to shreds in that game?

he certainly did and got kicked to fuck in the process,Gentile being the biggest culprit

 

[browny33]

Would any of you chaps like to do a write up for my blog about your memories from the Juventus games? My first City game was West Ham at home in 1976, which was the first game after the 2nd leg so unfortunately my recollections of the game relates to what you read in the papers those days, which was not much. It doesn't have to be much, perhaps even a few lines and if enough people contribute I could put them all together.

I posted a thread earlier today.

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Its got a link to my site to see what we're up to and I asked on there if anyone was interested in doing something. Thanks

 

[tommyducks]

Remember Mick Doyle getting kicked in the stomach, dirty sods they were.
Sure they beat the rags in the next round aswell.

Yes, he tripped Causio, who rolled over 360 degrees to conveniently kick Doyle in the guts. And yes, I think they lost 1-0 at Maine Rd then beat us 2-0 and then lost 2-0 at the swamp but won the second leg 3-0.

 

[Dyed Petya]

Remember Mick Doyle getting kicked in the stomach, dirty sods they were.
Sure they beat the rags in the next round aswell.

Yes, he tripped Causio, who rolled over 360 degrees to conveniently kick Doyle in the guts. And yes, I think they lost 1-0 at Maine Rd then beat us 2-0 and then lost 2-0 at the swamp but won the second leg 3-0.

They lost 1-0 at the Swamp.

 

[GeorgeHeslop'sTackle.]

Yes, he tripped Causio, who rolled over 360 degrees to conveniently kick Doyle in the guts. And yes, I think they lost 1-0 at Maine Rd then beat us 2-0 and then lost 2-0 at the swamp but won the second leg 3-0.

They lost 1-0 at the Swamp.

Didn't we play AC Milan in the round before? seem to remember we drew 2-2 at their place & beat them 4-0 at Maine Rd...or is my memory playing up again

Barnsey had a great game that night too, particularly in the first half. (If I remember rightly, we were 3-0 up at the break)

Happy days in the Platt lane end with my late (sadly missed) Dad :-)

 

[Pigeonho]

Someone needs to tell the OS that the Delle Alpi no longer exists.

 

[blue John]

didn't barnes rip them to shreds in that game?

Peter Barnes best ever game

he was unstoppable

I must be thinking of another game but I thought it was this game that Peter got his nose broke by a flying elbow

 

[Dirty Harry]

They lost 1-0 at the Swamp.

Didn't we play AC Milan in the round before? seem to remember we drew 2-2 at their place & beat them 4-0 at Maine Rd...or is my memory playing up again

Barnsey had a great game that night too, particularly in the first half. (If I remember rightly, we were 3-0 up at the break)

Happy days in the Platt lane end with my late (sadly missed) Dad :-)

The AC game, from my memory George, we played away first and we were 2-0 up at half-time only for them to bring it back to 2-2 ( a few dodgy decisions too I think).
The return leg I think was 3-0 to us with Asa scoring a good goal from the edge of the area.

The odd thing I seem to remember about the first leg though was that it was played earlier in the day as I`m sure I remember being in school keeping an eye out for the result ?

That year I think we went out to Borussia MG in the 1/4 or semis.

 

[mancityvstoke]

yeah Borussia Mönchengladbach I remember that game as well as the Juve game. Still got the Juve programme.

Also remember mingling in the escort for either Juve or ze Germans near The Parkside I think.

 

[Dyed Petya]

Didn't we play AC Milan in the round before? seem to remember we drew 2-2 at their place & beat them 4-0 at Maine Rd...or is my memory playing up again

Barnsey had a great game that night too, particularly in the first half. (If I remember rightly, we were 3-0 up at the break)

Happy days in the Platt lane end with my late (sadly missed) Dad :-)

The AC game, from my memory George, we played away first and we were 2-0 up at half-time only for them to bring it back to 2-2 ( a few dodgy decisions too I think).
The return leg I think was 3-0 to us with Asa scoring a good goal from the edge of the area.

The odd thing I seem to remember about the first leg though was that it was played earlier in the day as I`m sure I remember being in school keeping an eye out for the result ?

That year I think we went out to Borussia MG in the 1/4 or semis.

We went out to Juve in the first round in 1976/7. United beat Ajax in the first round and got Juve in the second round. We actually gave Juve a real fright - should have won the first leg by more, and in the second leg were pressing them at 2-0 (hit the woodwork and forced Zoff into a few saves. Could have won by more at home, too.

United, in contrast, scraped their win in the home leg and were really battered in Turin. Trapattoni, in his first year as Juve coach, said that they'd had the harder game against us - I was at school in Stretford, surrounded by Rags, at the time, so made much of that!

The Milan game was in 1978/9. As mentioned by the poster just above, we drew 2-2 at their place and then won 3-0 at Maine Road with all the goals coming in the first half. We'd knocked out Twente Enschede and Standard Liege before playing Milan, afterwards we lost the QF to Borussia Monchengladbach against whom we lost 3-1 in the away leg having held them 1-1 at home.

The reason you remember the Milan game being played in the afternoon is because the match was originally due to be played on the Wednesday night but was called off due to fog. It was played on the Thursday afternoon instead.

We were 2-0 up in the first leg with not long left, and I think we'd have been at that stage the first away team to win at Milan in European competition (something like that, anyway). They came back at us with two late goals though, so we missed the record - even though it was a great result.

In 1976/7, Juve won both Serie A and the UEFA Cup. In 1978/9, that Milan side ended up Serie A champions and Monchengladbach took the UEFA Cup. Having seen us mix it like that and give a good account of ourselves against the top European sides as a kid, it was pretty heartbreaking to see us become as utterly hopeless as we did for much of the intervening period. Heartfelt thanks to Mansour for giving us the chance to make up for last time.

Juve first up, though. What a bastard of a draw that was. Thank God the draws are seeded now, say I! ;)