UEFA Europa League - Standard Liège

Who: Standard Liege

Where: Liege, Belgium

What: Classic Continental D's

Why: Classic Continental D's make for classic nights in Europe (and pretty good ball retention for all 4 goals)

UEFA Europa League - K.R.C. Genk

Genk are a result of the 1988 merger between K. Waterschei S.V. Thor Genk and K.F.C. Winterslag.

Where Waterschei played between a slightly oversize pair of Continental D's (see Belgrade '76?)...



Winterslag went for top marks in the identity stakes - any time you saw these spectacular Continental D's you'd know you were watching Winterslag.

UEFA European Championships - Belgium 1972

In the '72 final at the doomed Heysel stadium, West Germany swept three past the Soviet Union into the Wembley look-a-likes.




Of more interest to us devotees of the goalnets, check out the semis' sexy curves at -

Antwerp (Bosuil Stadium)



Brussels (Stade Emile Verse)

Feyenoord

Two clips from Rotterdam in the 1980's illustrate perfectly what this blog's all about.

Chasing a Feyenoord thread through Youtube, we discovered the favoured on-field architecture of the early 90's were Latin American L-supports:


We followed the thread all the way back to a Holland v Belgium game in 1985. We didn't know where the game was played, and there's nothing about the venue in the description. But as soon as you see the goalnets, you know the game's being played in Rotterdam.