Vienna 1970

[sweynforkbeard]

Some fantastic stories on here - thanks for sharing them. I can remember a newspaper match report being stuck on a classroom wall at school. Does any film of the Final or just clips of the goals exist?

 

[iansalop]

Yes great memories. I was lucky enough to go to Vienna. I remember it was at the Prater Stadium and you could see the Prater Wheel. It did hiss down with rain, never seen anything like it, the whole match. No cover and we got absolutely soaked but well worth it to see Tony Book holding the cup.
I sold a car for £100 and booked a 3 package hol with a Travel Agency that cost only £39 each.
The players really gave there all in those days when money wasn't everything! Can't get the same excitement now as I did then but then I was lucky enough to see all the successful years and am now much older and more cynical! Thanks for bringing back the memory.

 

[Doddy]

I also was there went with british airways with my mam and dad and younger brother.Remember there was a fairground not far from the ground which i spent most of the day at.At the game i met up with Stuart Gibson who was the groundsman son(Stan) who i knew well,got absolutely soaked but the biggest buzz was i managed to get on the pitch and get Tommy Booths shirt which now takes pride of place at the City Museum for all too see.Doddy

 

[daveduke67]

Vienna?

This means nothing to me.

Joe Dolce - what a cnut

 

[Vic]

I also was there went with british airways with my mam and dad and younger brother.Remember there was a fairground not far from the ground

That was the Prater Gardens with the big wheel from The Third Man. It never snowed, just rained. Programmes were selling at up to £600 a couple of years ago on ebay but can now be had for under £200 (but someone's selling "replicas" a lot cheaper). And someone else is making copies of the Austrian TV footage and selling them at £4.99 a pop. (Interesting to hear us sing "You'll never walk alone" before it became just a Liverpool song.)

I can see me up in the stands in one of the press pictures taken after the match.

 

[give-go]

i went with my older brother , i was 16 and doing my gce,s at school , got permission to go as had an exam on the tuesday and my next one was the following monday. My dad payed most of the cost which was flight from manchester, travel to hotel, overnight stay, travel to prater stadium & back to hotel ,match ticket travel and flight home all for £32 not bad .
Yes it pissed it down , got a programme , got on the pitch at the end with my union jack with manchester city across it made with white insullation tape, and the pole a thin metal curtain rail. remember walking round vienna on the day of the game , and after the match having a shandy- beer in the crappy hotel bar the into bed. Got home thursday night because our aircrew had a car accident on their way to the airport, think one got killed so we missed the homecoming in albert square. Still have programme but lost ticket.
Thought it was just normal winning trophies at that age, after 2nd div champs,
league champs, fa cup winners & league cup winners the e.c.w.c winners.
I hope i am still around when we do it all again.
C.T.I.D

 

[MichalSzturc]

BTW - Górnik Zabrze's supporters are celebrating tonight their team promotion to Ekstraklasa (first level in Poland) after last year's relegation (second relegation in club's history). Górnik Zabrze (<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B3rnik_Zabrze" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B3rnik_Zabrze</a>) won 14 times polish league (record). They are playing crap now but their supporters group (Torcida) is one of the best in Poland.

Here couple links to youtube movies (first three are showing relegation season, two last from this season):

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6bRKnNg8Z4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6bRKnNg8Z4</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8gnLEcuf0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK8gnLEcuf0</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pz30by-oug&feature=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pz30by- ... re=related</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hW9bPGfoyM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hW9bPGfoyM</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcb_DERRpSE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcb_DERRpSE</a>

and highlights from Vienna:

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Yd66hb_R4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Yd66hb_R4</a>

 

[Maineman55]

Wonderful experience.
Barely 5000 in the Prater Stadium, as it was then. (think it's called the Ernst-Happel Stadion now)
As everyone's said it persisted down all night.
Think the Poles allowed either one or two flights out.
Can't remember.
Communist eastern Europe then ofcourse.
There was absolutely no local interest in the game.
So basically this huge open arena, was home for the night to City fans and a few Poles.
City trained on a pitch right outside the ground.
And I always remember going on the pitch inside the stadium, the day before the game with the players.
No chance of that nowadays.
Great great memories that are right up there as a blue.

Incidentley that's the only time an English team has been in a European final, and the game wasn't shown live on TV.
Could only happen to City.

 

[waterloo blue]

My old man went,and my mam reckons it was one of the main reasons they eventually got divorced.
He told her he was nipping out for an evening news and didn't get back for a week,spent most of the money they had saved for a new car and him and his mates from the Waverley on Eccles New Road,went via the riepperbahn in Hamburg.
He said the weather was gash and he was soaked to the skin and the ale wasn't up to much and my mam gave him the rounds of the house when he got back,but it was worth it.
He brought me and our kid a programme each,and mine is around here somewhere,I didn't know about the value.

 

[viennavet]

As some of the sharper tools in this box may be able to deduce from my user name I am indeed a veteran of the successful ECWC campaign. I only wish I had clearer recollections of the trip and I thank previous contributors to this thread for unlocking memories of the glorious couple of hours or so spent in the torrential rain in the Prater. Suffice to say that after the game my mate and me went into the city and found ourselves rubbing shoulders and eventually other parts with a couple of "ladies of the night". Indeed, dear readers, it was Vienna where I lost my cherry. A night to remember. Luckily there is no correlation between that act and City winning trophies. The intervening years would have been bleak indeed.