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Newcastle United
had made it through to the final in their first ever European
campaign. Even though the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was ranked 3rd
in stature behind the European Cup (Champions League these days)
and the Cup Winners Cup, the competition still had some of
Europes finest teams in it. |
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The 1st round
lined up with the likes of Liverpool, Juventus, Marseille,
Feyenoord, Lyon, Valencia, Fiorentina, Napoli, Chelsea, Leeds
United, SV Hamburg, Sporting Lisbon, Real Zaragoza and Athletic
Bilbao all taking part. |
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A proud Joe Harvey
with the Cup. |
However after 5
rounds of competition it was Newcastle United against little
known Hungarian side Ujpest Dozsa that
would contest the final. |
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Ujpest Dozsa had impressed a lot of
people along the way to the final beating some good teams and
building up quite a reputation. In the Quarter-Finals they beat
competition favourites Leeds United with ease, 3-0 on aggregate.
On the eve of the final the Leeds manager Don Revie laughed
off our chances by saying "If they borrowed Billy Bremner, Bobby
Charlton and George Best they (Newcastle) might stand a chance".
Indeed, it looked tough. Ujpesti Dozsa had six
Hungarian internationals in their team, and had won every game
bar one in the competition so far. |
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Newcastle
took to the field for the first leg at St James'
Park in a confident mood in front of nearly 60,000 screaming
Geordies.
Bobby Moncur was the unlikely hero scoring twice
in the second half as we ran out 3-0 winners. His first was from
a rebound as Wyn Davies shot was only parried by the Hungarian
keeper, and his second came after a one-two with Benny Arentoft
saw his low shot nestle into the back of the net. Jim Scott
added a third to put us into a commanding position for the
second leg in Hungary.
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The second leg in Budapest
saw us take to the field in front of an
intimidating Hungarian atmosphere. All did not go well in the
first half as Ujpesti scored two goals as our defence fell
apart. The tie was now delicately poised at 3-2.
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Cue the legendary
half time rollicking from manager Joe Harvey, who apparently
tore stripes off the players for throwing away our advantage. It
certainly did the trick as Bobby Moncur scored his 3rd of the
tie one minute into the second half.
A half-cleared corner fell to him on his
left-foot, and he struck a sweet volley into the back of the
Ujpesti net. |
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Then Dane Benny Arentoft added another goal four
minutes later to level the tie on the night and put us 5-2 ahead
on aggregate. |
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Substitute Alan Foggon then completed the
comeback on 74 mintues by scoring the winner against a
disillusioned Ujpesti side.
Latching on to a Wyn Davies flick on, he fired the ball
goalwards to see it pushed onto the bar by the keeper. Foggon
was first to the rebound and finished what he had started by
putting the ball into the empty net. |
Evening Chronicle
picture |
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The match finished
3-2 making it 6-2 to us on aggregate. The mighty men of
Newcastle had done it, they had beaten
Ujpesti Dozsa home and away to lift the
Inter-Cites Fairs Cup. |
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The players came
back from Hungary to a heroes welcome. Thousands of fans packed
into St James Park to see the players parade the trophy around
the ground and the Civic Centre held a reception to honour the
players. |
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The Toon Army
gather at SJP to welcome home their heroes. |
This was our
first trophy since the 1955 F.A. Cup victory and brought glory
to a new generation of Geordies. Names like Harvey, Moncur,
Davis, Robson, Clark and
Arentoft will forever go down in folklore on
Tyneside.
Newcastle United fans will forever remember those European
nights at St James Park back in the late sixties. We have been
craving this kind of success ever since and one day, just one
day, it might return.
Certainly Bobby Moncur has been quoted numerous times recently
as saying he is dieing to hand over the honour of being the last
Newcastle United captain to win a major trophy.
Keep the faith everyone. |
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Click
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to view all our results and scores in the competition or go to
the Past
Seasons section. |
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