Treble winners “you’ll never sing that”

In some years of the old European Cup, some clubs got byes in some rounds on the way to winning it.

It really wasn’t difficult to win the old format. The hard part was winning the English league title to get into it.
Also wasnt seeded. The big guns could all draw each other in the early rounds
 
Also wasnt seeded. The big guns could all draw each other in the early rounds
Villa - 1981

Round 1 - FC Valur Reyjavik (Iceland)
Round 2 - Dynamo Berlin (East Germany)
Q-Final - Dynamo Kiev (USSR)
S-Final - Anderlech (Belgium)
Final - Bayern Munich (West Germany)

9 games
 
Just champions will do me. I don't like singing about what other fans will never achieve. It feels conceited and we are not that fanbase...revenge, or not.

Totally agree. Much prefer it when we do curve ball stuff, it's far more City. We're proud of who we are, but we do self-deprecating stuff like no other fan base that I know of. There were bananas, even in Istanbul!
I'd like it if we sang back to them, “You'll never sing that, you'll never sing that, Full Members Cup, you'll never sing that”.

Edit: got confused. We never won the Full Members. Runners up against Chelsea (still angry about it). What was that weirdo trophy that we won? Something to do with windshields…

Second edit: nope, still not that. Thinking of the Auto Windscreens Shield. What the fuck was it? Something really obscure.
 
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Just champions will do me. I don't like singing about what other fans will never achieve. It feels conceited and we are not that fanbase...revenge, or not.
I think villa are a very justified exception. Although I’d sing “champions of Europe , we’ll never be that”, given what they’ve sang to us for decades
 
In some years of the old European Cup, some clubs got byes in some rounds on the way to winning it.

It really wasn’t difficult to win the old format. The hard part was winning the English league title to get into it.

Also wasnt seeded. The big guns could all draw each other in the early rounds

If you look at who United actually had to play on their way to winning at Wembley (Wembley! even more of a home game then that it is now) in ’68, it's really not all that. Benfica themselves were no longer at their best. They only had Eusebio at world level. Real Madrid was the genuinely tough one, and they scraped that.
 
Also wasnt seeded. The big guns could all draw each other in the early rounds
And they say it was harder to win because you only played champions. Bull shit.

Whats easier , playing the league champs, of ireland (as liverpool did one year) , malta, iceland and poland or barca, real madrid , atletico and sevilla ?
 

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