uefa.com - 5/17/2008
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Spurs keep Wolves at bay Monday 2 January 2006 e-mail Print New competition, same old story. Season 1971/72 might have seen the launch of the UEFA Cup, formerly the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, but it brought no change in the balance of power. If anything, the fine-tuning done by European football's governing body seemed to strengthen the hand of English clubs. English final Entry ...
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Women Like Sports —
... 1972 - Tottenham Hotspur win the first UEFA Cup. The Spurs defeated the Wolverhampton Wanderers in the match. Both teams have rich tradition and history and the Spurs had won the Football League Cup in the previous year and many FA Cups as well. ...
Wheel comes full circle from Molineux to Moscow
Reuters Soccer Blog —
I was standing by the side of the M1 in front of my broken-down Morris 1100 on a hot afternoon in May 1972 with only one thought in my mind. And it wasn’t how to get my car fixed.
It was how was I going to get to Molineux, still 75 miles away, for the first leg of the UEFA Cup final between Wolves and Spurs.
Luckily my companion knew a lot more about cars than I did and after a nervous wait, we were on our way again to an historic first — the first European club cup final between two English teams.
For in all the hype ...
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