Estudiantes Friendly

[Eckingtonian]

With the friendly against Estudiantes coming up on Sunday,i was just wondering how many on here went to the River Plate friendly in 78?I was there and remember people trying to re- create the ticker tape effect that had been used at the world cup in Argentina that year.

 

[Sensiblade]

I was 2 years old so I don't know.
I'll ask my dad on Sunday and find out

 

[Jon Bon]

I was there, I've still got the programme somewhere. From memory, so I stand to be corrected, I think we lost 3-1. Filol (GK), Daniel Pasarella and I think Leo Luque from the Argentinian WC winning team played.

 

[Eckingtonian]

We lost 2-1 Bon Jon.Dont remember their scorers but think Woodward scored his last goal for us from a penalty.

 

[Eckingtonian]

Apologies for cocking up your user name.

 

[oaklandrdblade]

Didn't our players try and persuade Sabella to take the penalty but he refused?

 

[Silent Blade]

River started with 5 players that played in the 1978 World Cup. Keeper Ubaldo Fillol, Captain Daniel Passarella, Left winger Oscar Ortiz, striker Leopoldo Luque and midfielder Norberto Alonso (who played one or two sub apperances in the group matches and scored the wiiner against Hungary). I think 25,000 attended the game. Early in the game Sabella won us a penalty after he got tripped ending his mazy run. Woody sent Fillol the wrong way with his spot kick to give us the lead. Soon after that, Alonso equalised with a superb swerving shot from outside the box that stunned the helpless Jim brown. Early in the 2nd half, Luque fired in the winner at the Kop end

 

[LSF]

Woody gave me the boots he played in in that game. I soon wore them out on the shit tip pitches of South Yorkshire

River started with 5 players that played in the 1978 World Cup. Keeper Ubaldo Fillol, Captain Daniel Passarella, Left winger Oscar Ortiz, striker Leopoldo Luque and midfielder Norberto Alonso (who played one or two sub apperances in the group matches and scored the wiiner against Hungary). I think 25,000 attended the game. Early in the game Sabella won us a penalty after he got tripped ending his mazy run. Woody sent Fillol the wrong way with his spot kick to give us the lead. Soon after that, Alonso equalised with a superb swerving shot from outside the box that stunned the helpless Jim brown. Early in the 2nd half, Luque fired in the winner at the Kop end

 

[TheSwollengland]

I was there as a strapping 20 year old FFS where`d that lot go?

 

[bramptonblade]

With the friendly against Estudiantes coming up on Sunday,i was just wondering how many on here went to the River Plate friendly in 78?I was there and remember people trying to re- create the ticker tape effect that had been used at the world cup in Argentina that year.

I was there too and still got the programme, was about 14/15 at the time and loved it!!!!

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I was there, my programme is now with my son. I do remember the forlorn attempt at the ticker-tape welcome by the kop and that equaliser by Alonso. I also had this vague memory of us getting the penalty and alot of the team trying to get Sabella to take it, and him having nothing to do with it.

There was also this bizarre feeling about the atmosphere, it was this alien thing for BDTBL called optimism (somebody explain that to Lenners, Big Mart, Olle and the rest). The arrival of Sabella and a few others (who all turned out, bar Sabella, to be complete turkeys) we all thought heralded a return to great times. Little did we know!

 

[super_pig]

>I do remember the forlorn attempt at the ticker-tape welcome
heh.. we didn't know how to make it at the time.. we did get better at it though.. we used to take carrier bags of it and hand it out.. in the end they banned it cos it made a right mess

 

[Revolution]

There was also this bizarre feeling about the atmosphere, it was this alien thing for BDTBL called optimism (somebody explain that to Lenners, Big Mart, Olle and the rest). The arrival of Sabella and a few others (who all turned out, bar Sabella, to be complete turkeys) we all thought heralded a return to great times. Little did we know!

In other words, optimism can sometimes be misplaced...

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

There was also this bizarre feeling about the atmosphere, it was this alien thing for BDTBL called optimism (somebody explain that to Lenners, Big Mart, Olle and the rest). The arrival of Sabella and a few others (who all turned out, bar Sabella, to be complete turkeys) we all thought heralded a return to great times. Little did we know!

In other words, optimism can sometimes be misplaced...

92 clubs, a dozen can have success (of sorts) which means most optimism in football is misplaced. Doesn't stop hundreds of thousands at the start of every season turning up and thinking, this might be the season!

Mind you, turning up the start of every season thinking (and in most cases saying it very loudly to all who will listen) 'bleeding rubbish this lot, never win owt' means you'll be right most of the time!

 

[Kenilworth]

I attended that game as well. Probably same age as Brampton at the time.

Still have the programme (indeed I was looking at it this very morning as it happens).
It has the autographs of Ubaldo Filliol and Happy Harry Haslam in it - not that he singed the word "happy" before his signature - god rest his soul.

Most of what I recall was Alonso's goal and Woody's pen but in allhonesty they didn't really have to break sweat to beat us. When they wanted to turn it on they just did so and we couldn't compete.

We had just beaten Liverpool in the league cup with Gary Hamson scoring a screamer (there was only one leg in the second round then) and I remember RS stating that the Blades had beaten the European champions one week and were ready to take on the South American champs the next, so that kind of made us conternders to be World Champs - if ever there was a misguided set of optimism I ever heard that was it.

Season after didn't go too well though did it?
Utter Bobbins for years until Porterfield popped over the Tinsley Viaduct.