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Issue 2 June 2010Free to football fans everywhere

Zico of Brazil battles with Claudio Gentile

during Italy’s 3-2 win inthe 1982 World Cup.

Memories in Black & White No.1

The F.A. Cup Final of 1927 was the only occasionthat a non-English team won the trophy.

Cardiff City beat Arsenal 1-0 in the Final thanksto a goal from Hughie Ferguson.

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In this issue:

Page 2 Cardiff take the Cup to WalesPhoto story

Page 4 Arsenal 7 Dunfermline 3? That was Quiz Ball!The BBC game show that players loved

Page 5 World Cup ReviewMemorable moments from world football’s premier extravaganza

Page 10 1967 - Celtic’s ReturnPhoto feature. The Lisbon Lions return with the European Cup

Page 12 The Programme CollectorKeeping your old matchday magazines can lead to fun and profit

Page 13 Dancing in the StreetsThe story of Raith Rovers’ European Adventure

Page 16 Profile: Pat JenningsNorthern Ireland’s gentle giant

Page 17 One City, One TeamA look at the Europa League’s predecessor, the Inter City Fairs Cup

Page 18 Dodgy 70s Haircut CompetitionWin a CD of Computer Games

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Ask The EditorHow many times was the World Cup trophy stolen?

Page 19 Archie Gemmill’s Wonder GoalPhoto story

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Arsenal 7 Dunfermline 3? That was Quiz Ball!Some of the people reading this magazine might remember ‘Quiz Ball’. It was screened on BBC TV in the early evening between 1966 and 1972, in the early evening. The original presenter-cum-referee wasthe popular David Vine, although Stuart Hall took over for the later episodes.

The format was simple, professional football clubs were represented by three players or officials plus awell known guest supporter. Each week saw a new match with new teams, the winners going forward tothe next round.

There were four ways to score a goal:Answer four easy questions correctly or answer three medium questions or two difficult ones...or one really hard one.

Your opponents could ‘tackle’ you byanswering your question. If they were correct they gained possession of the ball.but if they were wrong it was a goal to theteam whose question it originally was. However, no tackle could be made onroute 1 - the hard question.

The electronic scoreboard - quite high-tech at the time - is shown in the picture behind David Vine. it lit upto show which route was being taken, and every goal was greeted as if it was an FA Cup Final winner!

Quiz Ball Finals were as follows:1966-1967 Arsenal 7 Dunfermline Athletic 3 1967-1968 Nottingham Forest 1 West Bromwich Albion 2 1969-1970 Celtic 3 Hearts 1 1970 (Special Champions Series) Celtic 7 Everton 5 1970-1971 Derby County 4 Crystal Palace 2 1971-1972 Dunfermline Athletic 3 Leicester City 1

Guest supporters included radio presenter Jimmy Young for Arsenal, comedian Tommy Trinder (Fulham),gardener Percy Thrower (West Bromwich Albion), cricketer Brian Close (Leeds), television actor Sam Kydd(Chelsea), ‘Upstairs Downstairs’ star Gordon Jackson (Dunfermline Athletic), disc jockey Pete Murray(Fulham), ‘Mastermind’ question master Magnus Magnusson (Kilmarnock), boxing commentator HarryCarpenter (Fulham), Dad’s Army’s ‘Fraser’ John Laurie (who was ‘doomed to failure’ with Dundee in 1969as they lost 3-1 to Arsenal) and Jon Pertwee of Dr Who and Worzel Gummidge fame who representedDunfermline Athletic in the 1971 Final.

Alex Ferguson - now the legendary boss of Manchester United - represented Falkirk in 1970, scoring inthe 1-0 win over Huddersfield. He scored again in the semi final but the Bairns lost 2-1 to Everton, In 1969 Arsenal were represented by their manager Bertie Mee, whilst Gunners’ players Bob Wilson andTerry Neill, Ian Ure all appeared in earlier seasons. Do you think Quiz Ball should make a return to TV?... email us at retrofootball@btinternet.com

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World CupReview

Memorable Momentsfrom the World’s Premier Football

Extravaganza

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Mexico 1970For the first time the World Cup was televised in colour around the planet and tens of millions watchedspellbound as Brazil added brilliance to the glittering spectacle with a glorious exhibition of attacking football that deservedly saw them become world champions for the third time.

After Pele’s bitter experience in England - where he was literally kicked out of the 1966 tournament - hehad threatened not to take part in Mexico 1970, but eventually did, as part of a team rich in forward talent.Brazil’s front five of Jairzinho, Pele, Gerson, Tostao and Rivelino made an almost unstoppable strike force.

The tough conditions facing the players - intense heat and high altitude - were made worse by the decisionto stage matches at midday to suit European television schedules. It was the first finals where there weretwo substitutes allowed per team, red and yellow cards for the referees and the white-and-black decked‘Telstar’ football made their debut.

Controversy surrounded England captain Bobby Moore before the tournment when he was detained by theColombian authorities in Bogota after being falsely accused of stealing a bracelet.

The highlight of the first roundwas the meeting of holdersEngland and champions-electBrazil. The match will be bestremembered for the most famoussave in FIFA World Cup history,Gordon Banks somehow stoppingPele's goal-bound header by saving the ball at the bottom corner and guiding it back upover the crossbar. A sole goal byJairzinho won the game and theBrazilian went on to make historyby scoring in every round.

There were promising showingsby unfancied Israel, who onlyqualified after North Korearefused to play them,as they heldmuch-fancied Italy 0-0 in theiropening match.Morocco ledagainst West Germany beforeeventually succumbing to Gerd

Muller's late decider, the first of ten goals he would score on his way to winning the coveted Golden Shoeaward as the tournament’s top scorer. Muller went on to hit successive hat-tricks against Bulgaria andPeru, before his extra-time strike decided a dramatic quarter-final against England. West Germany trailed2-0 with just 23 minutes remaining in Leon before Franz Beckenbauer and Uwe Seeler brought them level.Ironically Geoff Hurst, who had scored the controversial goal against West Germany in the Final four yearsearlier, then had an effort disallowed before Muller's match-winning volley put Helmut Schoen's men intothe semi-finals.An epic semi-final against Italy followed, with Karl-Heinz Schnellinger's 90th-minute goal levelling thingsat 1-1 and forcing an extra time period which saw a previously unprecedented flood of five goals, includinganother two for Muller, before Italy won through by 4-3. Gianni Rivera netted the winner against their WestGerman opponents whose captain Beckenbauer played on with a dislocated shoulder.While the West Germans would eventually take third place, Italy went into the final against Brazil, who hadbeaten Uruguay 3-1 in the semis. The Italians were the clear underdogs.

On the day it was Pele, seeking his third winner's medal, whose powerful header opened the scoring inthe Final and although Boninsegna equalised for the Azzuri before half time, Gerson, Jairzinho and CarlosAlberto scored in the second period and Brazil were crowned the world champions in front of a crowd of 107,412 in Mexico City’s Aztec Stadium. Even the partisan Italian press admitted Italy "were beaten bythe best footballers in the world".

The Brazilians' 4-1 Final triumph over Italy gave them the right to keep the Jules Rimet Cup and providedthe perfect farewell for Pele after appearing in four World Cup tournaments.

Peter Bonetti can’t stop Gerd Muller scoring for West Germany in their 3-2 win over England in the 1970 World Cup Quarter Final in Leon.

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USA 1994This was the tournament that saw the end of Diego Maradona's World Cup career, when the Argentinianwas was expelled from the competition after failing a drug test which uncovered ephedrine, a weight lossdrug, in his blood.

Colombia, despite high expectations due to their style and impressive qualifying campaign, were disap-pointing and failed to qualify for the second stage. The team was supposedly dogged by influence frombetting syndicates and drug cartels, with coach Francisco Maturana receiving death threats over squadselection. Their defender Andrés Escobar was the tragic face of this tournament, as in the group stagematch against the United States, he scored an own goal which eliminated his team 2-1. Escobar was shotto death outside a bar in a Medellín suburb only 10 days after the match, apparently in punishment for theown goal.

On the field, the biggest surprise of the tournament was Bulgaria - who had previously never won a matchin the finals - but, led by Hristo Stoichkov, who ended the tournament as joint top scorer with six goals,they made a surprising run winning two of their three group matches to qualify for the second round,where they advanced with a 3-1 penalty shoot-out win over Mexico. Bulgaria then beat the reigning worldchampions, Germany, in the quarter-finals by 2-1.Bulgaria finished fourth, after losing to Italy (2-1) in thesemi-finals and 4-0 to Sweden in the play off for third and fourth place.

Hosts United States advanced to the second round as one of the best third-place teams. They playedBrazil and, despite a 1-0 defeat, the USA's performance was hailed as a great success. Brazil's win overthe USA helped take them to the final against Italy. While Brazil's path was relatively smooth as theydefeated the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Sweden in the semis, the Italians had made hard workof reaching the final game. Italy struggled and narrowly advanced to the next round, despite losing 1-0 tothe Republic of Ireland.

During the Round of 16 match against Nigeria, Italy trailed 1-0 in the dying minutes when Roberto Baggioscored the equalizer forcing the game into extra time, during which, he scored again with a penalty kick tosend Italy through. Baggio carried the Italians from there, scoring the winning goal in the 2-1 quarter-finalwin over Spain, and both goals in Italy's 2-1 semi-final victory over Bulgaria.

The final match in front of 94,000 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena was tense but had few scoring chances.Despite FIFA’s strategies to encourage attacking play, both teams failed to produce a goal. After two hoursof goalless football, the World Cup was decided for the first time by a penalty shoot-out.

After four rounds, Brazil led 3-2, and Baggio, who had been playing in spite of injury, had to score to keepItaly's hopes alive. He missed, shooting the ball over the bar, and Brazil were again crowned champions.

Roberto Baggio was the cornerstone of Italy’s team during the 1994 tournament scoring five goals as the Azzurireached the Final. However Baggio was one of three Italians to miss his shot in the penalty shootout to hand Brazilthe trophy after a goalless draw.

Argentina 1978Argentina was the destination of the sixteen teams competing in 11th World Cup. After their country lostout in the bid to host the 1970 tournament, the Argentinians witnessed their team become the fifth hostnation - after Uruguay, Italy, England and West Germany - to win the trophy in their own backyard.

Poland won Group 2 ahead of world champions and much-fancied West Germany, after holding them toa goalless draw and then beating Tunisia and Mexico. West Germany could only manage goalless drawagainst Tunisia, before redeeming themselves with a 6-0 thrashing of Mexico, who had already suffereda 3-1 defeat at the hands of Tunisia in their opening game.

Peru unexpectedly pushed the Netherlands into second place in Group 4. Scotland, whose manager Ally McLeod had tipped his team to “come home with a medal at least”, lost 3-1 to Peru and then couldonly draw one-all with Iran. In their final match a 3-2 victory over the Netherlands - which featured what isclassed as one of the best World Cup goals of all time from Archie Gemmill - was not enough to preventthe Scots’ elimination, whilst Iran, the reigning Asian champions, went home without a win.

In Group 3 Austria surprisingly finished ahead of Brazil. The Austrians beat Spain and Sweden, whileBrazil were held to draws by the same two teams. Brazil needed to beat Austria in their final group gameto be sure of progressing to the second round, and managed. Brazil and Austria thus finished with thesame number of points and the same goal difference, but Austria came top having scored more goals.

Group 1 had the strongest line-up of teams in the first round, featuring Italy, the host Argentina, Franceand Hungary. The two places in the second round were claimed before the final round of games, with Italyand Argentina both beating France and Hungary.

In the all-European Group A, the Netherlands got off to a flying start in the second round by thrashingAustria 5-1. The Italians beat Austria 1-0, and so the Netherlands faced Italy in their last group gameknowing that the winners would be in the Final. The Netherlands won 2-1 to reach their second successiveWorld Cup Final.

Group B was essentially a battle between Argentina and Brazil, with Argentina qualifying by virtue of a better goal difference to face the Netherlands in the final. Brazil, denied a final place by Argentina’s 6-0win over Peru, took third place from an enterprising Italy side with a 2-1 win and were dubbed “moralchampions” by their coach Cláudio Coutinho, because even though they did not win the tournament,they did not lose a single match either.

The Final was controversial with the Netherlands accusing their opponents ofdeliberately stalling the startof the match. Argentina took the field late. They then objected to a plaster cast worn on the wrist ofRene van de Kerkhof, meaning a further delay whilst padding was added. The Dutch threatened to walkoff the pitch and later refused to attend the post-match ceremonies.

Argentina won the final 3-1 after extra time, with Mario Kempes giving the hosts the lead before DickNanninga equalised in the last few minutes. Rob Rensenbrink almost stole the match for the Netherlandsin stoppage time but his effortbounced back off the post.

In extra time, goals fromDaniel Bertiloni and anotherfrom Kempes, (pictured) whofinished as the tournament’stop scorer with six goals, wonthe trophy for Argentina.

This defeat meant that theNetherlands had lost twoWorld Cup Finals in a row.After losing 2-1 to WestGermany in 1974, bothdefeats had come at thehands of the host nation.

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England 1966When the 1966 tournament got underway, the16 qualified teams were divided into four groups of four withthe top two teams in each group advancing to the quarter-finals. Although this tournament attracted recordattendances for the time, it was a World Cup with few goals as teams began to play more defensively.

Hosts England finished top of Group 1 scoring four goals but conceding none. Uruguay were the otherteam to qualify from that group at the expense of Mexico and France. In Group 2, West Germany andArgentina qualified easily as they both finished the group with 5 points, Spain managed 2 points, whileSwitzerland lost all three group matches. FIFA cautioned the entire Argentinian team after its violent play inthe group games, particularly in the scoreless draw with West Germany.

Group 3 saw surprisingly Brazil finish in third place behind Portugal and Hungary, and be eliminated alongwith Bulgaria. Brazil were defeated by Hungary and Portugal in controversial wins. Portugal won all threeof their games in the group stage, with a lot of help from their outstanding striker Eusébio, whose ninegoals made him the tournament's top scorer. The biggest upset however happened in Group 4 where firsttime finalists North Korea beat Italy 1-0 and finished above them, thus earning qualification to the nextround along with the USSR, whilst Chile finished bottom of the group.

In the quarter-finals West Germany easily saw off Uruguay 4–0, but the South Americans claimed that the referee had missed a hand ball by Schnellinger on the goal line and then had sent off two Uruguayans.Minnows North Korea looked like they might cause another upset when they were leading Portugal 3-0after 22 minutes, but It fell to one of the stars of the tournament, Eusébio, to change that. He scored fourtimes and José Augusto added a fifth to complete one of the incredible comebacks of all time.

Meanwhile the USSR beat Hungary 2–1, and the only goal between Argentina and England came fromEngland's Geoff Hurst. During that controversial game in which Argentina’s players kicked their Englishopponents on numerous occasions, Argentina's Antonio Rattín became the first player to be sent off in asenior international football match at Wembley. Rattín at first refused to leave the field and eventually hadto be escorted by several policemen. After 30 minutes England scored the only goal of the match. At fulltime England manager Alf Ramsey stepped in to stop his players swapping shirts with the Argentinians,later labelling them ‘animals’.All four semi-finalists were from Europe. England beat Portugal 2–1, whilst West Germany beat the USSRby the same scoreline.Portugal went on to beat the USSR 2-1 to take third place.

Wembley Stadium was the venue for the final, and 98,000 people crammed inside to watch it. HelmutHaller put West Germany ahead in the 12th minute but Geoff Hurst levelled four minutes later. With twelveminutes remaining, Martin Peters gave England in the lead, but Wolfgang Weber managed to poke the ballacross the line, with England appealing in vain for handball moments before full time.

With the score level at 2–2 at theend of 90 minutes, the game went toextra time. Hurst was soon on thescore sheet again; his shot hit thecrossbar, and bounced down and hitthe ground either onto or just overgoal line. Whether the ball actuallycrossed the goal line or not hasbecome part of World Cup history.

In the last minute Hurst again dribbled easily through the Germanhalf to net his third goal, just as thegathered crowd invaded the pitch tocelebrate with the team, thuscementing the victory for Englandwith another goal and making Hurstthe only player ever to have scoreda World Cup Final hat-trick.

Memories in Black & White No.2Scenes of joy at Parkhead after Celtic became the first British team to winthe 1967 European Cup in Lisbon, Portugal.

The team - all of whom were born within 30 miles of Glasgow - became knownas the Lisbon Lions after they came from a goal behind to beat favouritesInter Milan 2-1 in front of 70,000 people with goals from Tommy Gemmelland Stevie Chalmers.

The team, managed by the legendary Jock Stein, paraded the trophy atCeltic Park the next day in front of more than 50,000 jubilant fans.

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The Programme CollectorCollecting football programmes can be

a fascinating and sometimes profitable hobbyOccasionally, football programme collectors get hold of an edition that makes the hobby ratherprofitable. Take, for instance, the fortunate person who sold an extremely rare 1924 FA Cup finalprogramme which cost just one shilling (5p) on the day, yet fetched £2,000 at auction.

So why is this particular programme so rare? There are a number of factors:

Firstly, on 26th April, the day of the 1924 Aston Villa versus Newcastle United cup final it pouredwith rain. As much of the terracing at the ‘old’ Wembley stadium was uncovered, many supportersused their programmes as makeshift umbrellas in the wet weather meaning that few of thesought-after 1924 cup final programmes have survived intact.

Secondly, it was also printed on very flimsy paper, which meant many fell to pieces within days.

Thirdly, the Football Association had decided to double the price of the programme,from sixpence(or two and a half pence today) in 1923 to one shilling (5p) in 1924 and this deterred many fansfrom buying a copy of the programme in what were, after all, the economically depressed 1920s.

The 1924 final was only the second FA Cup final staged at the newly-builtWembley Stadium, so for many fansthis was their first glimpse of Britain'snewest football stadium. Newcastle wonthe final by beating Villa 2-0, with goalsfrom Neil Harris and Stan Seymour.

Despite the match programme havingsome damaged areas and being heldtogether with old sellotape, one collectorhappily paid £2,000 for it in 2008.

But that wasn’t the most expensive programme sold in recent years. In2006, Graham Budd Auctions in Londonsold an 1889 Wolves versus PrestonNorth End FA Cup final programme.

Before the auction, the slightly torn,document which consisted of a singlesheet, had been expected to fetchbetween £7,000 and £10,000. It wassnapped up by a collector fromFarnham in Surrey for the princelysum of £21,850.

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Dancing in the StreetsThe story of Raith Rovers’ European Adventure

Raith’s European adventure began after the club surprisingly beat Celtic in the final of the previous season’s Scottish League Cup (then known as the Coca Cola Cup) to bring UEFA cupfootball to Stark’s Park for the first time in its 112 year history. The final had been decided onpenalties after a 2-2 draw. As Willie McStay missed the last kick to give Rovers the trophy, BBC commentator Sam Leitch, who was a Scot, made the legendary comment, “They’ll bedancing in the streets of Raith tonight”, which was seen as a display of ignorance as the teamactually hail from, and play in, Kirkcaldy.

Gotu Ittroterfelag from the Faeroes Isles were paired with the Fife club and Raith Rovers madetheir European debut with a 4 – 0 victory and a 2 – 2 draw in the second leg saw Rovers’passage to the first round proper of the UEFA Cup where they faced Icelandic championsAkranes. This time, a 3-1 victory in the first leg at Stark’s Park gave Raith the upper handalthough the away goal scored by the Icelanders made it a tricky tie in the return leg in Reykjavik.Despite almost 90 minutes of uninterrupted Akranes pressure, Rovers managed to ride out a 1-0defeat going through to the next stage with a 3 – 2 aggregate victory.

The draw for the next round provided Raith and their followers with the match of their dreams asthree-time European Cup winners Bayern Munich were paired against them. Excitement andanticipation ran riot in the town of Kirkcaldy at the prospect of the local team encountering thelikes Oliver Khan, Jurgen Klinsmann and Jean Pierre Papin. The interest, was so great thatStark’s Park could not cope with the demand on its facilities and the descision was made to stagethe home leg at Hibernian’s Easter Road. Although moving the tie to Edinburgh somewhatreduced the romanticism surrounding the occasion, it ensured that over 12,000 people couldattend the biggest game in the club’s history.

Interest in the tie was not solely confined to Fife and the event caught the imagination of theBritish public, most of whom were rooting for the Scottish underdogs. A packed Easter Roadgreeted the teams crowd whilst the game was watched live by millions of TV viewers as RaithRovers took to the field determined to beat the Germans. Despite the early optimism, after onlysix minutes Jurgen Klinsman gave Bayern an early advantage and although Rovers managed tocompose themselves and repel the visitors until half-time, in the second half Klinsmann addedhis - and Bayern Munich’s - second, shortly after Oliver Kahn had denied Raith’s Colin Cameronan equalising goal.

Two-nil down, the return leg in Munichlooked pretty much a formality for theGermans, but amazingly Raith tookthe lead on the stroke of half timewhen a Danny Lennon free kick wasdeflected into the net signalling celebrations from hopeful fans andplayers who thought a shock may beon the cards.

Sadly, this was not to be as Klinsmannand then Babbel scored to giveBayern a 4-1 aggregate win and bringing Raith Rovers’ great adventurein Europe to an end.

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The scoreboard shows Raith Rovers leading Bayern at the Olympikstadion in Munich.

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Brian MooreRemembering ITV’s Legendary Commentator

Brian Moore was among the most distinguished,respected and widely-loved commentators in thehistory of football.

In a career that spanned almost 40 years, he commentated on and presented coverage of international football, including the majority of theWorld Cup tournaments from 1970 onwards, themost notable of all being the infamous England versus Argentina tie in 1998.

On the national arena he was commentator at allthe FA cup final ties and European games involvingBritish clubs. In terms of football commentary,Moore did it all. He was a caring, professional anddetermined individual who made it all the way tothe top of his game and stayed there for almostfour decades.

Moore officially retired from full time commentary at the end of the 1998 World Cup tournament,after describing France’s victory over Brazil on their home turf. He did not however, retire altogether from broadcasting, and in 1999 he began presenting an interview programme for Sky Sports and also hosting programmes for BBC Radio Five Live and Talksport. ‘Inside theBoardroom’ was the name of his Talksport show, and involved club chairmen and directors joininghim in the studio and accepting phone-in questions from fans.

Sadly, in 2001 Brian Moore passed away, at the age of 69 and following his death, many of thebiggest names in football paid their tributes to the great man, including friends and colleaguesRon Atkinson, John Motson and Martin Tyler. He died on the same day that England thrashedGermany 5-1 in Munich in one of the national team’s most memorable performances. It was ironicthat Moore was not able to see the game.

Amongst those who were closest to Moore were his fellow commentators who described him as a meticulous man, who did not enjoy making mistakes on air. Shortly after his death fellowcommentator, John Motson, made some reflections about his friend Brian Moore, the talisman offootball commentary. Motson described how, before his first commentary broadcast, he wasincredibly nervous, but when he arrived at his desk he found a personal and reassuring note fromMoore reminding him to enjoy the moment. As Motson remarked, this was a true testament to theprofessionalism and attention to detail of the man. Most surprisingly of all this was while he wasworking for the “opposition” channel.

Equally, Ron Atkinson, who worked alongside Moore for many years at ITV, described him as ‘a great Englishman, a lover of English football and cricket and a genuinely great guy to workwith’. He was a lifetime supporter of his local team Gillingham FC and was a much loved directorat the club for many years. When the Priestfield Stadium was revamped a new stand was namedafter him. The club fanzine is also named in honour of Moore and is called "Brian Moore's HeadLooks Uncannily Like London Planetarium", which was a lyric written by the cult indie band HalfMan Half Biscuit from their song 'Dickie Davies' Eyes'.

Moore hated making mistakes on air, and for this reason rarely made any. He did, however,famously announce to 13 million viewers that Hamburg had won the European Cup in 1980 whenin fact Nottingham Forest had won 1-0. Many believe this to be an embarrassment that he neverovercame and probably carried with him to the grave.

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Profile

Pat Jennings

Name: Patrick Anthony Jennings

Birthplace: Newry, Northern Ireland

Date of Birth: 12 June 1945

Playing Positions: Goalkeeper

Senior Playing Career: Apps (Goals)

1963 - 1964 Watford 48 (0)

1964 - 1977 Tottenham H. 118 (0)

1977 - 1985 Arsenal 237 (0)

International Career:

1964 - 1986 N. Ireland 119 (0)

Playing Honours:

Tottenham Hotspur:

FA Cup Winner 1967

League Cup Winner (twice) 1971, 1973

UEFA Cup Winner 1972

Arsenal:

FA Cup Winner 1979

Other Honours:Football Writers’ Player of the Year 1973PFA Players’ Player of the Year 1976

Footnote:Pat Jennings actually scored a goal in open playin the 1967 Charity Shield match between Spursand Manchester United when he punted the ballfrom a drop kick in his own area over the head ofUnited keeper Alex Stepney in the 3-3 draw.

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One City, One TeamThe Concept of The Fairs Cup, predecessor of today’s Europa League

The UEFA Cup was the original brainchild of Switzerland's Ernst Thommen, Italy's Ottorino Barrasi - bothof whom were future vice-presidents of FIFA - along with England's Sir Stanley Rous, the future presidentof of the organisation.

Their idea was to organise a tournament for representative sides from cities in Europe that regularlyorganised trade fairs. The concept was agreed upon and planned and soon, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup,forerunner to the UEFA Cup and later ‘The Europa League, was founded on 18 April 1955, two weeksafter the founding of the European Champion Clubs' Cup. Originally only one team from each city couldparticipate but this was abandoned temporarily in 1961-2 season and then permanently dropped in 1971.

The first Fairs Cup involved teams from Barcelona, Basle, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Lausanne,Leipzig, London, Milan and Zagreb.

Although it had originally been conceived as a two-year tournament, it actually lasted for three, duringwhich time 23 games were played. Barcelona, using players purely from FC Barcelona, beat a Londonrepresentative side 8-2 on aggregate in the final.

For the second tournament the organisers reverted to club participation with the knockout format continu-ing, but the teams still had to come from cities staging trade fairs. Sixteen clubs took part in the 1958-60tournament, after which it was staged on an annual basis. By 1962 the number of entrants had risen to 32;there were 48 in 1967; 60 in 1968; and, as from the 1969-70 season, there were 64 teams on the startinggrid. There are now more than 100. The 1971-72 tournament, was the first to be known as the UEFA Cup.

Leeds United twice lifted the trophy, firstly in 1967-8 and then in 1970-1 and were finalists in 1966-7, whilstother British winners were Newcastle United in 1968-9, Arsenal (1969-70) whilst Birmingham City (twice)and the London XI who played in the original tournament were beaten British finalists.

From 1999/2000, domestic cup winners also qualified for the UEFA Cup after the decision was made toend the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. In addition, clubs eliminated from the third qualifying round of theUEFA Champions League and the eight third-placed finishers at the end of the group stage of the samecompetition move across to contest the UEFA Cup. The competition also includes places for three Fair Play representatives, three UEFA Intertoto Cup 'winners' and winners of some selected domesticleague cup competitions.

From the 2009–10 season, the competition has been rebranded as the UEFA Europa League in a bid toincrease the competition's profile. As well as changing the competition's name, an extra 16 teams nowqualify for the main stages of the competition.

One of the most memorable finalstook place in 1969-70 when Arsenal,having trailed 3-1 after the first legin Brussels, fought back in the return match at Highbury to win 3-0on the night and 4-3 on aggregate.

Right: Arsenal skipper FrankMcLintock shakes hands withAnderlecht’s Paul van Himst beforethe second leg of the 1969-70

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Dodgy 70s Haircut Competition Enter our competition and you could win one of two prizes of 10,000 computer games on DVD.

Who is the Newcastle player racing for the ball with Forest’s David Serella?

Email your answer to retrofootball@btinternet.com by 30th June 2010.

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Ask the Editor:Was the Jules Rimet Trophy stolen twice?

Charlie Forbuss of Tipton emailed to say: “I remember the old World Cup being stolen in Englandand being found by a dog, but my workmate told me it got stolen again and that it was neverfound.I didn’t know about this - I thought it was kept by Brazil for good after they won it 3 times.”

You’re right about the first theft of the trophy, Charlie. A rather unusual hero of the 1966 WorldCup was indeed a dog. In the build up to the tournament the original World Cup - officially knownas the Jules Rimet Trophy - was displayed as centrepiece of an exhibition of stamp collections inLondon and was stolen from its display cabinet even though it was guarded round the clock. A nationwide hunt for the £30,000 solid gold cup ensued.

Soon, a ransom demand for £15,000 was received by the Football Association, but this waspassed on to the police who - after a game of cat and mouse that could have come straight fromthe pages of a detective story - arrested one Edward Bletchley, who was later jailed for two years.

Before the tournament, the trophy was discovered tied up in newspaper by Pickles, a mongreldog who was out for a walk with his owner in South East London. When David Corbett, the dog’sowner, pulled the newspaper apart he recognised the trophy and took it to a nearby police station.

However, your workmate is correct Charlie, the trophy was stolen again, this time in 1983 justthirteen years after Brazil had been awarded it in perpetuity after winning it for a third time.

The trophy was displayed in the Headquarters of the Brazilian FA in Rio de Janeiro, its casemade of rocket-proof glass, but with a wooden back which was prised off and the trophy stolen.It has never been recovered and many people believe it was melted down for its gold content.

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Memories in Black & White No.3Scotland’s Archie Gemmill scores

a memorable solo goal as the Scots end a disappointing World Cup 78

with a 3-2 win over the Netherlands