September 3 – Walking in a Robson Wonderland and Euro Sceptics
Uncle Bobby returns home as Europe’s big-wigs look further afield in today’s OTFD round up.
1999 – Walking in a Robson Wonderland
IT is fair to say that Freddy Shepherd is not everyone’s cup of tea, or bottle of Brown Ale for that matter. The former Newcastle chairman probably did the best thing for relations between himself and the Geordie faithful by selling his stake in the club earlier this year, and stepping down as chairman.
Whether it was calling Geordie women “dogs”, ridiculing club legend Alan Shearer as the “Mary Poppins of football,” or even laughing at Newcastle’s own fans for shelling out vast amounts of money for replica shirts, Shepherd was not what you would call a people’s chairman.
It was on this day in 1999 when Shepherd made one of his better decisions when he appointed fellow Geordie Bobby Robson as manager. Click here for the whole story.
A LONG time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
It is a period of civil war. Rebel football clubs, meeting at a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Uefa Empire. During the battle, Uefa spies managed to see secret plans for the Rebel’s new European Super League, a new continent-wide league with enough power to destroy Uefa and domestic leagues. Pursued by the Uefa’s sinister agents, a mysterious man named Rodolfo Hecht races across Europe, custodian of the secret plans that could change football forever in the galaxy….
Strained Star Wars analogies aside, today in 1998 saw some of Europe’s top clubs meeting to discuss the possibility of starting a breakaway European Super League, outside of the control of Uefa. Click here for the whole story.
Europe’s big teams were up for a bit of this every week.
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