Don Revie's team, Leeds United, during the 1960s and 1970s, scrapped their way to just about every football trophy on offer, but the one exception was the European Cup. Don would have loved to win that! He never came closer to meeting his wish BUT on this day in 1975, when Leeds, under the care of Jimmy Armfield, lost a most controversial European Cup Final to Bayern Munich, at the Parc des Princes in Paris with over 48,000 in attendance.
The referee, France's Michel Kitabdjian, turned down two good penalty appeals (we would say that wouldn't we) and disallowed a Peter Lorimer goal for a dubious offside call (and this!). Two late goals by Bayern, won the game for the Germans, but their manager, the impressive, Franz Beckenbauer, admitted, "In the end, we were winners, but we were very, very lucky!"
Nottingham Forest went one better lifting the Trophy on May 30th 1979. The win represented a third successive victory for an English side in the European Cup, after Liverpool's victories in 1977 and 1978.
Brian Clough managed to retain the crown the following season, on May 28th 1980 and on this day, John Robertson scored the only goal over Hamburg SV, containing Kevin Keegan, at The Bernabeu, Madrid.
Man U 1968, 1999 and 2008
Liverpool won the Trophy in 1977, 78, 81, 84. 05 and 2019
Forest in 1979 and 80,
Aston Villa in 1982
Chelsea 2012 and 2021 and Man City 2023....Impressive eh?
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