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The English Ban from Europe

English Football’s ban from Europe. What do you think would have been different if we had never been banned?

I often wonder how that Pool team with Barnes, Beardsley and Aldridge etc would have done in European Cup, they were amazing to watch. Would Everton have declined the way they did? And teams like Luton Town, Oxford United, Wimbledon and Coventry City were denied a European adventure.

Would Rangers have got some of our "better" players? Does it take until 99 to win the Champions League?

And this is not an invitation to WUM Pool fans.

It's meant as a sincere question and i don't consider Pool fans as the reason we got banned. Heysel was a tip of the iceberg.

comment by Cloggy (U1250)

posted on 24/9/18

comment by SilvaLining (U21951)
posted 5 hours, 14 minutes ago
Wow! Whoever this dog is, he really got to you.

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This is the canned response from any banned user found out

posted on 24/9/18

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posted on 24/9/18

comment by Flashy flibble (U10324)
posted 4 hours, 1 minute ago
I must be fun? Somebody starts a conversation and you start boring on about Chelsea in 1955. Absolutely irrelevant you facking Norman
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However what IS very relevant is that but for the ban on the English Clubs, Chelsea would have been one of the qualifiers for the UEFA Cup in both 1985-1986 and 1986-1987.

That said, the team that I have always felt sorry for from that period, because they had a superb team that would have won European silverware IMO is Everton.

posted on 25/9/18

Liverpool fans have flown a Steau Bucharest 1986 European Cup flag at Anfield in the past, to mock Everton

Wrong on so many levels

posted on 25/9/18

EC winners during the ban

86 Steaua Bucharest
87 Porto
88 PSV Eindhoven
89 Milan
90 Milan
91 Red Star Belgrade (English clubs were re-admitted this season, but champions liverpool had an extra year ban, so no english club in the EC)

in 87, and 88 I'd say the best team in europe was the quinta del buitre Real Madrid team (lost in the semis both seasons)

from '89 the great Sacchi Milan team emerged

I think Everton may have had a decent chance of winning it in '86

After that i think the success of the English clubs may have waned anyway, especially after Milan emerged in the late 80s.....that team profounded changed the way football was played ...

posted on 25/9/18

i remember watching a pre-season friendly in the summer of 86 or 87 (can't remember) between the Quinta Del Buitre Real Madrid team and Everton

Madrid annihilated Everton 6-1

posted on 25/9/18

100

posted on 25/9/18

didn't it take until 1996 or something for English football to get all its European places back? I wonder what the impact would have been had English teams not been dominating the 3 European competitions. I doubt they would have been banned as long as they did.

posted on 25/9/18

Doubt you could have lived with Ac milan 87-90.

Rikjaard Gullit Van Basten were a different level to the likes of Aldridge Beardsley etc

Juventus were a better side than you in 85.

Everton Would have Had a great chance 85/6.

You guys 86/7.

posted on 25/9/18

comment by peks (U6618)
posted 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
EC winners during the ban

86 Steaua Bucharest
87 Porto
88 PSV Eindhoven
89 Milan
90 Milan
91 Red Star Belgrade (English clubs were re-admitted this season, but champions liverpool had an extra year ban, so no english club in the EC)

in 87, and 88 I'd say the best team in europe was the quinta del buitre Real Madrid team (lost in the semis both seasons)

from '89 the great Sacchi Milan team emerged

I think Everton may have had a decent chance of winning it in '86

After that i think the success of the English clubs may have waned anyway, especially after Milan emerged in the late 80s.....that team profounded changed the way football was played ...
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Maybe Everton would have had decent chance 87/8.

Milan were different level to Liverpool so could not see Pool beating them 88/9 89/90

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