Spartak Moscow - 83/84 both legs

[Richie]

Mark Walters at his very best over in Moscow.

An absolute sickener in the last minute of the second leg deflected off Dennis Mortimer's back side !

I remember going to the game at the Villa and the Russian's were very good. 

[orkneyvilla]

I didn't go to the game but distinctly remember my Dad saying how we surrendered the possession too easily towards the end of the match -with the centre halfs particularly at fault (sorry Brendan Ormsby if you ever read this thread). The pressure eventually told in the end I suppose. I was (un) lucky enough to see the game before this (2-6 vs Tony Woodcock). Thanks for the highlights anyway.

[Big Dick Edwards]

We were absolutely outclassed by Spartak Moscow at Villa Park for the whole 90 minutes and it would have been a travesty if they hadn't nicked that late goal to go through.

[The Left Side]

Love the kit

[darren woolley]

Love the kit

Me too.

[steffo]

I was at that game. Their pass and movement was quite exceptional.

[PeterWithesShin]

Even as a youngster I could see how good Spartak were on the night. Them and Juventus in '83 are the best 2 European away sides i've seen at VP.

[dave.woodhall]

I missed this game as I was poorly, but everyone said they were better than Juventus.

[Pete3206]

Gutted at the home game. Our luck ran out in the end.

[ez]

As i remember, the first leg was broadcast live on a big screen at the villa leisure centre.

[Exeter 77]

I remember the home game well. It seemed every time we attacked we exposed ourselves at the back such was Spartak's speed of counter attack.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I missed this game as I was poorly, but everyone said they were better than Juventus.

Not sure about better but they certainly played a football I'd never seen before. It was like their game had been designed by an engineer with a slide rule. Think of Swansea last season and add amphetamines. It was bloody flawless. They really were from another planet.

[Pat McMahon]

I missed this game as I was poorly, but everyone said they were better than Juventus.

Not sure about better but they certainly played a football I'd never seen before. It was like their game had been designed by an engineer with a slide rule. Think of Swansea last season and add amphetamines. It was bloody flawless. They really were from another planet.

Rudy,

Given the Communist approach to sport in that era your comments above may be very accurate (substituting something very well crafted by sports scientists for amphetamines)

[Rudy Can't Fail]

You may be right Pat but it was a very extreme Germanic approach to football; everything on the deck, everything into feet, one touch, so bloody fluid it was as I said, too perfect.

Does anybody recall how far they went in the competition?

[dave.woodhall]

You may be right Pat but it was a very extreme Germanic approach to football; everything on the deck, everything into feet, one touch, so bloody fluid it was as I said, too perfect.

Does anybody recall how far they went in the competition?

Got knocked out in the quarter finals by Anderlecht.