Wolves v Juventus

[Del Woppio]

If you gad to liken the players in that team to modern day PL players, who would you choose? I don't think I've ever seen so much as a clip of any of them tbh.

 

[ROVERT47]

Might not go down to well with some but for me there's no contest, there were some fine individuals back then but as a team they wouldn't live with the best of the Premier League.

 

[jd1981]

Thank you. I do remember John Richards getting sent off in the game in Portugal. I am not sure, but was that the only time that King John was sent off?

I think he was sent off against Villa at home in 79/80 season.

 

[Jeb01]

I saw in the north bank and we were squashed in like sardines. I also seem to recall that before the game there was a massive Juve banner in the south bank.

Vaguely remember the Juve banner, but in my mind's eye I can certainly still see that Danny Hegan lob just curving under the bar and into the top of the net.
Doog scored our second down at the North Bank end with a glancing header.
Haller was the outstanding player in the tie.
I had gone to the first leg in Turin on a supporters trip out of Elmdon Airport as it was called then.
The very good performance in Italy really won the tie, with Jimmy Mac scoring an equaliser directly from a fee kick to make it 1 - 1.
Capellio played in the first leg in Italy and spat at big Phil Parkes, who would have spread Capello all over the pitch if he hadn't been grabbed by a couple of our defenders.
I may be wrong about this (passage of time) but I thought the ref in Italy was the Russian linesman who gave Geoff Hurst's disputed goal in the 1966 World Cup final. Haller, of course, played in that game too and scored.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Vaguely remember the Juve banner, but in my mind's eye I can certainly still see that Danny Hegan lob just curving under the bar and into the top of the net.
Doog scored our second down at the North Bank end with a glancing header.
Haller was the outstanding player in the tie.
I had gone to the first leg in Turin on a supporters trip out of Elmdon Airport as it was called then.
The very good performance in Italy really won the tie, with Jimmy Mac scoring an equaliser directly from a fee kick to make it 1 - 1.
Capellio played in the first leg in Italy and spat at big Phil Parkes, who would have spread Capello all over the pitch if he hadn't been grabbed by a couple of our defenders.
I may be wrong about this (passage of time) but I thought the ref in Italy was the Russian linesman who gave Geoff Hurst's disputed goal in the 1966 World Cup final. Haller, of course, played in that game too and scored.

That's one strange sounding trajectory!

 

[FrankMunro-371]

If you gad to liken the players in that team to modern day PL players, who would you choose? I don't think I've ever seen so much as a clip of any of them tbh.

The Wolves team of the early seventies were the best Wolves team I have seen. It is nigh on impossible to make co parisons between then and now, but if the boys of the 70's had the training facilities, diets, and everything else the modern footballer has, then I think they would be comfortably in the top half of the premier league.

We had some of the best players around back then. Hibbitt, Richards, Wagstaffe and Dougan was a forward line as good as any. I have always maintained that side was only two players short of being a title winning team. On our day we could beat anyone.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Vaguely remember the Juve banner, but in my mind's eye I can certainly still see that Danny Hegan lob just curving under the bar and into the top of the net.
Doog scored our second down at the North Bank end with a glancing header.
Haller was the outstanding player in the tie.
I had gone to the first leg in Turin on a supporters trip out of Elmdon Airport as it was called then.
The very good performance in Italy really won the tie, with Jimmy Mac scoring an equaliser directly from a fee kick to make it 1 - 1.
Capellio played in the first leg in Italy and spat at big Phil Parkes, who would have spread Capello all over the pitch if he hadn't been grabbed by a couple of our defenders.
I may be wrong about this (passage of time) but I thought the ref in Italy was the Russian linesman who gave Geoff Hurst's disputed goal in the 1966 World Cup final. Haller, of course, played in that game too and scored.

I didn't go to the game in Italy, but by all accounts we played very well indeed. I think Juve thought it would be a straight forward victory, but we showed them how good a team we were. In the second leg Wolves were excellent, and thoroughly deserved to win through, though the last few minutes were a bit nervy as Juve threw everything at us.

I must admit I do not know who the referee was in either game.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The ref in the game in Turin was from Belgium according to UEFA records.

Tofik Bakramov (the said world cup linesman) refereed the Molineux leg of the final against Spurs.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

The ref in the game in Turin was from Belgium according to UEFA records.

Tofik Bakramov (the said world cup linesman) refereed the Molineux leg of the final against Spurs.

Thank you Paddy. I did not know that. Well they say you learn something new every day.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QTtixtKlrAQ

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