NAME A FAMOUS BELGIAN?

Tonight's Europa League match between Belgian club, Anderlecht and Tottenham Hotspur is shrouded in controversy before the game is played. Whether Harry Kane is fit or if Anderlecht can spring a surprise over an English club in European competition, are small concerns compared to the history of this fixture.

In 1984 the two clubs met in the two legged final of the European Cup Winners Cup and there were 1-1 draws in Belgium and then at White Hart Lane. Tottenham won the penalty shoot out 4-3.
Parks, Falco, Archibald, Galvin, Mabbutt, Stephens, Hughton, Miller, Thomas and Roberts made up the side.

Danny Thomas missed his penalty but the Belgians were losing their bottle and some players did not want to take responsibility and missed two.

Tony Parks the Spurs goalkeeper, celebrated long into the night and had to get a 6am taxi to the BBC for an appearance on breakfast television. When he arrived at the studios he was in such a state, that he put back in the taxi and sent home.

Brian Clough was gutted that his side Nottingham Forest failed to reach the final that year, having been done by a bribed referee, who earned £27,000 and who gave a very dodgy penalty to Anderlecht, a fact that only surfaced in 1997.

When Anderlecht visited Tottenham they were not allowed to train on the club's pitch and had to put down jumpers for goal posts on a local pitch with long grass and no goals. That riled them.

The Tottenham players on the other hand were tempted to boycott the second leg of the final because Irving Scholar the chairman refused to give them bonuses from the lucrative TV money. He said that the club would play the youht team instead and Steve Perryman had to negotiate on behalf of the squad.

Manager Keith Burkinshaw was a popular figure and before the final he and the team was told that he was going to be sacked after the game, so the players were playing for him, not Scholar!

Finally, there was a nasty atmosphere before the second leg after a Spurs supporter had been shot dead in a Belgian bar before the first leg match. With hooliganism very much a pre-match feature in those days, the place was crawling with police, but that didn't help. NOW READ THIS........

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/tottenham-fans-attacked-in-brussels-pub-ahead-of-spurs-vs-anderlecht-after-belgians-threw-bricks-and-a6704106.html