Ukraine hosts the final in World Cup year, marking the first time since 2002 that a country has had the honour before missing out on FIFA's summer lovin'.
Only four other countries have failed to qualify for the World Cup in the year they hosted the European Cup final: which ones? And who has managed it three times?
Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fanView Post
That wasn't Liverpool's second semi-final. They reached the semis in 1965.
Aye, fair dues Rogin - I worded that badly. False emphasis on the "second semi" aspect. In 77-78 Liverpool played a semi against Moenchengladbach - the team they'd met in their only previous final. Same as Roma last night.
EDIT: Or I was just being plain fucking wrong. I don't THINK I'd forget about the big fix v Inter in 65, especially after watching that recent Shankly documentary on BBC Alba in which Ian St John went into great detail about the near hysteria of the Anfield leg. But, then again, I was talking about Shankly as a European Cup-winning manager earlier in this thread.
Last edited by Alex Anderson; 03-05-2018, 09:29.
Reason: ... that was just a mad Scottish bias thing though. Wasn't it
Great question, tee rex - I'll go with Belgium, via the Heysel, as yer three time trick, as that's the only place to host the final three times in World Cup years: 1958, 1966 and 1974.
... apart from the Netherlands in 1962, 1982 and 1998 ...
But I know the Netherlands qualified in 98, coz they finished fourth and therefore got themselves stuck in my limited World Cup memory.
Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fanView Post
Are Liverpool the first team ever to concede six goals in the semi-final and still go through?
I can hereby confirm that Liverpool are indeed the first team ever to concede six in a European Cup/ECL semi-final and still qualify - indeed, no beaten side had even managed five over the two legs before Roma on Wednesday night. (If anybody wants to confirm or otherwise that this is the only such occasion in all European competition, then the floor's yours...)
In terms of the ECL, thirteen goals is also the biggest aggregate for a semi-final - however, back in 1960 (ie, proper European Cup days), Eintracht Frankfurt beat Rangers 12-4 on aggregate (6-1, 6-3 - or a 'Ladies' Singles final', to you). Frankfurt's first goal of the tie was scored by the excellently-named Dieter Stinka.
... and, just to salt 'n vinegar the wound, the 1960 final was at Hampden, where I'm sure we could have kept Real down to 11 (one quieter).
I do feel duty bound, however, to point out that, in one of those great football anomalies, within seven months of the Eintracht thumping, Rangers set the record for the biggest ever European quarter-final win ... against another "West" German club. Moenchengladbach done 11-0 on aggregate in the Cup-winners' Cup.
Last edited by Alex Anderson; 04-05-2018, 10:07.
Reason: "Last eight, you say - well, let's score eight then"
Page 116 means 2015-16 and Dundalks long awaited Champions League debut. Wed won the league in 95 but were shamefully shunted into the UEFA Cup. At the end of the 2012 League of Ireland season we avoided relegation only via the playoffs and only because Monaghan went bust mid-season. Enter manager Stephen Kenny, and its runners-up 2013, champions 2014 and Champions League 2015. The excitement, the glamour . the Belarussian champions. BATE won 2-1 in Barysaw, so it was kept alive for the return leg at the tongue-in-cheek Home of Football Oriel Park. I must have been looking into the sun because there was a tear in my eye as the Champions League theme played over the tinny old tannoy in gloriously grimy old school Oriel. A scoreless draw kept it interesting for 90 minutes, though you could see there was a gap between the teams. Wed be back though .
Incidentally Dundalk were the fourth club managed by Stephen Kenny in the Champions League somebodys got to have done more than that though (Ill let you have the European-Cup-slash-Champions-League of course)
I think I'm right in saying Trapattoni had Milan, Juventus, Inter, Bayern and Salzburg? Would have had Benfica too but he left after winning the title in his only season.
Page 116 means 2015-16 and Dundalks long awaited Champions League debut. Wed won the league in 95 but were shamefully shunted into the UEFA Cup. At the end of the 2012 League of Ireland season we avoided relegation only via the playoffs and only because Monaghan went bust mid-season. Enter manager Stephen Kenny, and its runners-up 2013, champions 2014 and Champions League 2015. The excitement, the glamour . the Belarussian champions. BATE won 2-1 in Barysaw, so it was kept alive for the return leg at the tongue-in-cheek Home of Football Oriel Park. I must have been looking into the sun because there was a tear in my eye as the Champions League theme played over the tinny old tannoy in gloriously grimy old school Oriel. A scoreless draw kept it interesting for 90 minutes, though you could see there was a gap between the teams. Wed be back though .
Incidentally Dundalk were the fourth club managed by Stephen Kenny in the Champions League somebodys got to have done more than that though (Ill let you have the European-Cup-slash-Champions-League of course)
Stephen Kenny only managed three sides in the Champions league,Bohs,Rovers and Dundalk, Derry city only made the UEFA cup in his time there (btw I'm not taking away from his achievements)
I'll take the high road and avoid the "So is Oriel Park" comeback.
I actually drove to Lansdowne with my father and brother to support Dundalk against Legia (with a stop for a round of golf at Mount Juliet en route). I was in Dublin on work placement/practising for an alcohol-consumption title in the Guinness Book of Records in the summer of 2005, and I went to Tolka to support Shels against Glentoran and Steaua Bucharest.
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