Euphoria and despair

[dave.woodhall]

Stacy Murphy writes about a couple of games from thirty years ago.

https://www.heroesandvillains.info/forumv3/index.php?topic=61431.0

[darren woolley]

I remember them well good read.

[Aldridge Villa]

Very interesting read. Didn’t realise Bobby Robson’s next posting after England was PSV Eindhoven. Might have to use that one for the inevitable lockdown quiz !

[Jon Crofts]

Remember it well, I was in Crossmaglen keeping an eye on the natives and we played on the first evening of a 12 day patrol out in the sticks, didn’t get the result until 11 days later.

[Damo70]

Very interesting read. Didn’t realise Bobby Robson’s next posting after England was PSV Eindhoven. Might have to use that one for the inevitable lockdown quiz !

The tabloids had been trying to get Robson out for most of his eight year reign but when it looked like he wasn't going to be given a new contract by England after the 1990 World Cup and PSV threw a load of cash at him which he accepted he got called a traitor by the journalists who had wanted him out all those years. I think around that time he also had a couple of extra marital affairs come to light so moving to Holland suited him.

[CT]

Good times.

That away game is still one of my favourites, despite the result.

We stayed in the Lakes and had one of the most memorable European trips ever.

I wonder what the R rate would rise to if Kent Nielsen gobbed like that now!

[eamonn]

Great read for someone too young at the time to know much about it. One slight correction - the return leg being our biggest game in a decade ? Rotherham '82 says hello. Also, would VAR have chalked-off Daley's goal at VP or been able to intervene in Inter's illegitimate winner ?

[tomd2103]

Was ten years old at the time and don't think I've ever been more excited looking forward to a game.  Matthaus in particular had been brilliant at the World Cup that summer, so the thought of seeing him and some of the other players they had in the flesh was really exciting.  I remember the footage on Central News in the days leading up to the game of them arriving at the airport and of Klinsmann standing alone on an empty Holte End.

I remember the atmosphere on the night being absolutely electric and the sense of drama heightening further when the Inter fans threw a flare on the pitch which delayed the kick off.

As for the 90 minutes that followed, I still find it hard to split that and the Tranmere semi-final as my favourite game at Villa Park.