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The 1987 UEFA Cup Final Trailer
See Part 1 of "Little Giants" at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DgUzfDx07qA Before the Sevilla victory in Glasgow (2007), this was the only previous UEFA Cup Final to be played in Scotland. The lost age of standing at football. Before the era of the big club domination when a small club could compete and when football stood for the aspirations of the unemployed in the 1980s. A tribute - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H040DhzMwDY A much misunderstood connection in modern British history. A connection that helped keep any sense of city spirit alive in the bleak Thatcher days and decline of manly manufacturing. Tribute to fans - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H040DhzMwDY "Not everyone can be a hero some people have to stand on the sidewalk and clap as we pass by." Roy Rogers "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt Music by Vangelis - theme from the film 'CHARIOTS OF FIRE' (copyright UMG) Filmed and Edited by Graham Duncan Question: "Can you name the three cities that have had two teams reaching both the semi-final of the European Cup AND Uefa Cup/Inter Cities Fairs Cup....?" Answer: Rather than London, Glasgow, Budapest, Dundee, Belgrade, Milan, Bucharest, Madrid etc etc: the three are Milan, Madrid and DUNDEE. I think this gives a true list of the elite and the city of Dundee is part of a much smaller elite. I took the facts from the European Cup rather than the Champions League as the former was a competition for the Champions of the domestic leagues -- the Champions League is no such competition. Likewise, the Inter-cities Fairs Cup was a competition based upon one team per city in the competition. The old UEFA Cup - before the league nonsense and the second rate nature of failing teams from the Champions League entered that 'now' devalued competition -- was indeed a quality competition. Firstly, a champion of a domestic competition entered the European Cup as a Champion and therefore a team that reaches the semi-final are with other champions -- Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, Inter Milan and AC Milan clearly recognised throughout Europe as true Champions. Dundee and Dundee United were also quality Champions. They both deserved to be part of that elite. Secondly, in the 'good-old-days' teams that would have been runner's up to the team in the European Cup would play in the Uefa Cup/Inter Cities Fairs Cup and be most likely a quality side in some regard. They would be a consistent team or an up-and-coming team and just short of Champion material. Therefore teams reaching the semi-final of this European competition would be facing teams of 'equal' or similar quality to themselves. This elite includes the cities of Milan, Madrid and DUNDEE. So, my question - "Can you name the three cities that have had two teams reaching both the semi-final of the European Cup AND Uefa Cup/Inter Cities Fairs Cup....?", requires cities and teams with two distinct qualities -- to be a Champion of a domestic league and the ability when not champions to complete at the next highest level in Europe and reach the semi-finals of EACH competition. Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Dundee and Dundee United have done just that - by 1987! Teams Dundee United met in 1986-87 Uefa Cup:- First Round - RC Lens (France) Second Round - Universitatea Craiova (Romania) Third Round - NK Hajduk Split (now Croatia - then part of Yugoslavia) Quarter Final - FC Barcelona (Spain) Semi Final - Borussia Monchengladbach (West Germany) Final IFK - Goteborg (Sweden) These teams also beat the following in that Uefa Cup:- IFK Goteborg beat SK Sigma Olomouc, BSV Brandenburg (East Germany), KAA Gent (Belgium), FC Internazionale or Inter Milan (Italy), FC Tirol Innsbruck (Austria) Borussia Monchengladbach beat FK Partizan (Yugoslavia) and Feyenoord (Holland), Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) and Vitória Guimarães (Portugal) Barcelona beat Flamurtari Vlora (Albania), Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) and Bayer Uerdingen (Germany) NK Hajduk Split beat OFI Crete FC (Greece) and PFC Botev Plovdiv (Bulgaria) Universitatea Craiova beat Galatasaray SK (Turkey) Similar teams such as Ipswich Town, Middlesbrough and AZ Alkmaar have made the United form of impact in the Uefa Cup.