Knowing the great history of our club, many players from other clubs are still remembering that day when they played against Juve. I read many nice interviews of such players, and I thought that posting this in one thread will prove to everybody how this club's roots are nothing but glorious and decent...
Here's a new interview with Steve Coppell, A Manchester United winger, now 51 years old. He joined United from Tranmere in 1975 and played in United's only two European campaigns of the 1970s, in the Uefa Cup of 1976-77 (two rounds), and the Cup-Winners' Cup of the following season (two rounds).
"The one European campaign [76-77] that I remember was when we played Ajax. We beat them and then we played Juventus, which was a real eye-opener for me. They marked us man-for-man. In the first game Marco Tardelli marked me.
"He introduced me to a whole range of man-for-man marking tactics that I'd never encountered before. He was a monster. In the second game I was marked by Claudio Gentile, who was equally bad. We won 1-0 at home. We played away at the old Turin stadium and they beat us 3-0 and after Marco Tardelli had scored one of their goals he went on a lap of honour. I always remember him running past our dug-out. Tommy Docherty was standing there cursing away and he finished up by shouting at him: 'Who won the war, then?' It was the ultimate riposte."
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/comment/article2344781.ece
Here's a new interview with Steve Coppell, A Manchester United winger, now 51 years old. He joined United from Tranmere in 1975 and played in United's only two European campaigns of the 1970s, in the Uefa Cup of 1976-77 (two rounds), and the Cup-Winners' Cup of the following season (two rounds).
"The one European campaign [76-77] that I remember was when we played Ajax. We beat them and then we played Juventus, which was a real eye-opener for me. They marked us man-for-man. In the first game Marco Tardelli marked me.
"He introduced me to a whole range of man-for-man marking tactics that I'd never encountered before. He was a monster. In the second game I was marked by Claudio Gentile, who was equally bad. We won 1-0 at home. We played away at the old Turin stadium and they beat us 3-0 and after Marco Tardelli had scored one of their goals he went on a lap of honour. I always remember him running past our dug-out. Tommy Docherty was standing there cursing away and he finished up by shouting at him: 'Who won the war, then?' It was the ultimate riposte."
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/comment/article2344781.ece
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