Football

tallsam in reply to @middleofnowhere
Scottish football was much more a force to be reckoned with back then compared to today. Hardly a backwater.

I think it's a bit much for Everton to claim they in particular had their entire future trashed by it.
Based on a man in a pub claiming this, not Everton claiming it. I'm certainly not claiming it. It didn't help of course.

The Scots lured the best from the English game in the 80s...

Genuine question/point: Knowing that hooliganism was rife throughout all of football, back then the European and Uefa cups featured one team/country, and the Italian fans were known for being moped pillion riding, knife wielding twats, surely any other set of fans that featured in that final would have been doing the same against them? There is a lot that LFC did poorly but exactly why are Liverpool blamed for Uefa's decision to host a European cup final in a stadium that was falling apart and made of cinder blocks when the only thing it was fit for was demolition? [Obv nowt to do with chelsea.]