FROM THE ARCHIVES
Ninety six
football fans
lose their lives in
the Hillsborough
disaster before
Liverpool’s FA Cup
semi-final against Nottingham
Forest at Sheffield Wednesday’s
ground.Barry
Ferguson
and Allan
McGregor are
banned for life from
playing for Scotland
after making V-signs
while sat on the sidelines
at Hampden Park.
Barcelona
beat Beveren
of Belgium 1-0
both home and
away to reach the
European Cup-winners
Cup Final for the first time,
where they triumph 4-3 against
Fortuna Dusseldorf.A Spain side
featuring Xavi
and Carlos
Marchena beats
Japan 4-0 in the Final
to win the World Youth
Cup in Nigeria. Mali finish third
after beating Uruguay 1-0 in a
play-off.Don Revie’s
Leeds United
become league
champions for the
first time, finishing six
points clear of runners-up
Liverpool, while newly
promoted Queens Park
Rangers go straight back down.p12 In
Barranquilla
to interview
Colombia’s
Faustino
Asprilla, Jim
Foulerton was
informed by
a taxi driver
that the striker
“is not just a
great player,
he has magic”.p25 “Never mind Eric Cantona.
Forget about David Ginola,” wrote
Keir Radnedge. “They may grab the
headlines in England, but when it comes
to all-round international achievements
the Juventus midfield anchor is ‘The
Man’.” And Juve coach Marcello Lippi
said: “We have plenty of men who can
score goals...but the outstanding creative
players are very few and far between.
We’re lucky: we have Deschamps.”p33 In his World Cup 98 briefing, Nick
Bidwell reported on a side returning
from international isolation. “For two-
and-a-half years they had no fixtures at
all and then existed only on friendlies,”
he explained. “But such is the skill and
desire within the Yugoslav camp that
they have readjusted remarkably well.”p42 In Albania, Gezim Nushi revealed
how “league leaders Flamurtari may
boycott matches for the remainder of
the season as a gesture of support to
their supporters”. The club said they
would not play again until those who
had lost money in a recent financial
scandal following the “collapse of
pyramid saving schemes” were repaid.p44 Eric Weil explained how, despite the
sale of midfielder Ariel Ortega to Valencia
for an Argentinian club record fee of
£7million, River Plate were the only team
with maximum points in the Clausura, while
rivals Boca Juniors “under new coach
Hector Veira have again made a poor start”.Also in this issue...
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