1973: Referee Christos Michas Leeds United v AC Milan

Salonika (Greece), 1973: Bribed referee Christos Michas swindles Leeds United out the European Cup Winners' Cup.

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[foriamonlyahorse2]

Leeds were kicked all night by these scum but ref did nothing. Clear penalty, clear hand ball....clear to all but this bent cunt!

[stefd321]

don't be naive my friend. Shakespeare wrote "Treason doth not prosper. If it doth prosper no one dare call it treason". At least the Italian FA has the balls to penalise those who attempt corruption. Corruption is rife in the UK. Brown paper bags, match fixing, far east syndicates, the big four cartel, dodgy agents etc etc. FA is just a toothless entity.

[vecuccio]

I've been a Leeds Fan since 1969, and I only just heard about this today ! So I am as fucking outraged about it now as people must have been at the time ! OUCH !

[Faber9722]

NOW ON TV WE ARE SUBMERGED BY THE FOOTBALL [because blockbusters often fail whereas good movies are not broadcast] BUT THE QUALITY ON THE PITCH DIDN'T HEIGHTEN ITSELF and because only a football of elite rules! This as a fan of Milan I can recognize it. I can assure you in 1994,Berlusconi's money didn't help it's impossible it might have helped in 1973 where we played a fashion of football disgusting to you but effective that was our crime in that Greek evening not offering a show not buying

[Faber9722]

iF THE GREAT TEAMS , ALSO WHEN CUP OF WINNERS CUP HAD NOT BEEN ABOLISHED AND THEY WOULD HAVE NOT PLAYED IT ANYMORE HOW MANY TEAMS WOULD HAVE COME OUT? NEW TEAMS ABLE TO CHALLENGE THE POWERS OF FOOTBALL. THIS HAD TO BE DONE BY LEEDS FANS AND NOT THIS SHABBY VENGEANCE AFTER ALMOST 40 YEARS THIS HAD TO BE DONE BY THE ENGLISH FANS AND NOT ONLY; ORGANIZE MORE AND MORE CUPS AGAIN IN ORDER TO GIVE TO EVERY TEAM THE CHANCE TO ARISE FOR THE FIRST TIME OR AGAIN.

[Faber9722]

winner's cup so many more teams would have had the chance of arising in the sky of the stars of football teams. Look at galatasaray and Russians teams who arose from the namelessness; how many other teams would have turned up from the darkness if there had been the old dear Cup of Winner's Cup. We could have confirmed us with other cup of winners cups like in Champions League and barcelona too, but if Milan and Barcelona also with the left Cup of winner's cups would have nevermore put attention

[Faber9722]

and situation that deserve a batter analysis from the point of view of fair play I agree about that too; BUT NO MATCH IS PERFECT; THERE WILL BE ALWAYS MISTAKES AND FANS WHO WILL WEEP FROM A DESASTROUS performance of the whistles. hOWEVER football is so and seeing "behindology"[dietrologia] everywhere, the bad everwhere behind everything, it is not so worthwhile. What fans of Leeds should have done if they really loved the team, it ought to have been to sign a petition to set up again cup of

[Faber9722]

and so who lost complains that the fouls were not whisteled, the same the italians do when they lose AH BUT WE LOST BECAUSE OF THAT MISSING PENALTY, etc. the field etc." in Italian we say also my father if he had had three balls might have been like the game of flipper. With ifs and buts story was never done and the fans of Leeds will accept it. The game was ugly? I can agree, the style of playing and winning was not the courageous one like Germany-England2010 , catenaccio provokes many fouls

[Faber9722]

The only tarnish on this victory and here lies the confusion of your british ideas, it's what I said to you; you would like to see a game clear open spectacular. When there is catenaccio the fouls are more likely, but you english at first refuse and turn down this kind of game of the italians who always fall down at minimal touch and now you marry this mentality of maiden or ladies on the pitch. So the referee diorected at very english way without paying attention to the numerous people falling

[Faber9722]

as they are. There wouldn't be anymore certainties about football if all the results were overthrown only because a European member of Parliament wakes up suddenly deciding to change everything; they are used so because the policy allows them to do it.But sportsmen although suffering for injustice to their teams should never allow to seed this hatred.They sent you in the colonies to die and do you still listen to them? Now they use this finaL or another one and spread hatred among fans

[Faber9722]

I heard about the story of Anderlecht and I am sorry for your team but ANderlecht had its weight and the referees I have learnt through watching some games directly at stadium are like the turncoats; when they see money or money , the game running in a certain direction they follow the wind and forgive everything to the team in advantage. But coming back to this final,m if we reasoned madly like Corbett everything should be indiscussion also your cups in 1978 and 1979. we must leave the results

[Faber9722]

two goals of Milan otherwise we would have crushed 3-0 casino salzburg who had made suffer Ajax too. Whereas they invented the bubble of Conrad who fainted fictitiously more tham Dida in Glasgow and so we had our 3-0 kept in Milan but without points when we needed points and Berlusconi who was in difficulties with his first Governemnt could do nothing to help the team against the referees so as you can see the powerlessness of Berlusconi oj our days can you explain me how we bought this game?