The locations of some of the greatest goals are identifiable not by the players who scored them, but the nets the ball ended up in
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Showing posts with label damned united. Show all posts
Thursday, October 4, 2012
A-list A-frames - Derby County FC
Those who've seen the movie, The Damned United, will be aware the Rams lost to Juventus in the semi-final of the 1972-73 European Cup.
Not many may know Derby hammered Benfica - Eusebio et al - earlier in that competition, firing three goals into the marvellous A-frames at the old Baseball ground.
Two years later, Derby were back in Europe and beat Real Madrid. By then, the A-frames had given way to Continental D's (though the pitch hadn't yet become a beach).
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