Double Cup Disaster.

Arsenal Squad. 

No Charity here Liverpool win 3-1. 

Sunderland scores at Wembley again. 

Season 1979-80. 

Arsenal finished 4th in the League and many fans felt that they only needed 2 or 3 new players to possibly win it sometime soon. 

John Hollins came in & Malcom Macdonald retired due to a knee injury. 

John Devine & Steve Gatting were promoted to the squad. 

John Hollins. 

Instead, at the end of the season, things got worse. 

Andy Gray scores for Wolves in their League victory at Highbury. 

Wolves won the League Cup. 

League Cup. 

Arsenal were knocked out of the League Cup by Swindon after previously beating 

Brighton,  Southampton and on a wonderful night at Highbury, our Mates Leeds 7-0. 

FA Cup. 

Arsenal beat Cardiff - Brighton - Bolton - Watford to set up a semifinal with Liverpool. 

The first game was 0-0 at Hillsborough. 

Liverpool attacking. 

Arsenal attacking. 

I’m in. 

The first replay was 1-1 at Villa Park. 

Sunderland equalises. 

Arsenal Fans are happy. 

The 2nd replay was also 1-1 at Villa Park,

After Alan Sunderland scored in the first minute and Dalglish equalised in the last minute. 

Sunderland scores after 20 seconds. 

Dalglish equalised with 30 seconds left to play. 

The 3rd replay was at Coventry where Brian Talbot got the winner for Arsenal. 

Talbot’s header goes in. 

Liverpool go out. 

Pat Rice & Arsenal Fans are happy. 

Brian “Noddy” Talbot was happy also. 

We’re off to Wembley again for the 3rd year running. 

European Cup Winners Cup. 

In the ECW Cup we beat Fenerbahçe - Magdeburg - IFK Gothenburg to set up a semifinal win the mighty Italians, Juventus. 

Vic W ticket at Fenerbahçe. 

Vic W ticket at Magdeburg. 

Apparently there was serious crowd trouble in Magdeburg but I imagine it was nothing compared to Juventus. 

Here’s one for Scandinavian Arsenal Fans to read. 

My mate Putney went to this game and Pat Rice gave him a match ticket and a pass to the players lounge afterwards where he chatted to his old mates Pat Rice & Sammy Nelson. 

Juventus. 

I remember the first leg at Highbury, mainly for when the Juventus striker, Bettega, attempted to take David O’Leary’s leg back to Italy with him, after a horrific tackle. 

The game ended 1-1 and so it was off to Turin for the 2nd leg, where Juventus had never lost a European game at Home. 

Their team contained Italian football legends such as Zoff - Gentile - Causio. 

But we had a Bermondsey boy, Paul Vaessen, on the bench. 

Lucky 13 - Vaessen scores. 

History is made - Juventus lose a European Home game. 

Vaessen’s Moment. 

Juventus fans are not happy. 

My mate Spandau once told me, that he’d never been so scared as that night in Turin. 

He couldn’t believe that nobody was killed. 

Vic W told me that the Arsenal Fans were kept in at the end and the stadium lights were turned off, this meant hundreds of Arsenal Fans had to go down the stairs in complete darkness, luckily, nobody fell over, as this could have resulted in fatalities. 

Outside, the Juventus fans were waiting and he’s convinced at least one had a pistol. 

Some Torino fans showed him and others a safe route to their coaches. 

Next Post - Saturday 16/5/2020.

The Final Curtains. 

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