ACADEMICA DE COIMBRA 0 CITY 0
European Cup Winners Cup Quarter Final 1st Leg
4th March 1970
attendance 8,206
Ref Robert Schaut
City Corrigan, Book, Mann, Doyle, Booth, Oakes, Pardoe, Bell, Summerbee, Lee, Young – sub Heslop(69), Mulhearn(unused), Towers(unused), Carrodus(unused), Bowyer(unused)
Coimbra Cardosa, Artur, Alhinho, Rodrigues, Marques, Rocha, M Campos, V Campos, Jorge, Nene, Serafim – sub Gervasio(64)
It took us only 10 minutes play to realise what we were up against. Coimbra had some hatchet men and their all black strip seemed to give them a sinister appearance. At first we were more concerned with keeping out of trouble and being 100% ready for the League Cup final against West Brom the following Saturday but, when we saw the way it was, we began to get stuck in ourselves. With half-time looming, we could see that Coimbra were beginning to tire a bit, although in Nene they had a player who still looked as if he might do some damage to our chances. Fortunately he limped off early in the second half and we were thankful to see the back of him. We stuck grimly to our task and settled for containing Coimbra, in the confident belief that when we got them back to Maine Road we would be able to call the tune. We held firm to leave Portugal with a 0-0 draw.
BLUE BLOOD THE MIKE DOYLE STORY
FROM FRANCIS LEE, TRIUMPH, TREACHERY AND TOILET ROLLS
It was a hectic schedule for us, with Coimbra on the Wednesday before the League Cup Final just three days later. To make matters worse, our travelling jinx struck again as we needed more than 13 hours to make the trip home after a 0-0 draw. Why? A fireman’s strike at Heathrow?
It had been quite a game, with Coimbra not much interested in playing. They’d been written off before the tie as just a bunch of footballing students. The small ground, a very late kick-off and a crowd of under 9,000 seemed to fit this theory but it was way off beam. It seemed they just wanted to stop us from scoring. They practised all the dark arts associated with the Continental game (not the English one!) back in those days. shirt pulling, hacking, you name it, and they’d have a go. Yet as soon as you touched them, down they went, crying for a foul. They succeeded, though, claiming their goalless draw. We thought, well, if that’s their approach at home….
hi
Is this football programme to sell Academica Coimbra vs Manchester City???
Thanks
Hi Joaquim, Unfortunately not, I don’t have it in my collection, thanks Trevor