Footage from 1968

[Harry Lime]

BBC archive: Cardiff City's 1968 squad welcomed home from Moscow - https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cn001jgk83zo

[BLUETIT]

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Being pedantic, they were coming home from Augsburg, Germany, where the replay was played

A frenetic home match at Ninian Park in front of 30,000 saw Cardiff doggedly deny the Russians time on the ball. Chances were scarce, but the home side did gain a narrow advantage with a goal by winger Barrie Jones just before half-time. Torpedo dominated the return leg played for reasons of climate in distant Uzbekistan, though spirited defending once again by Cardiff denied them more than the single goal that levelled the tie on aggregate. This was a time when play-offs were still used to decide deadlocked ties so UEFA decided that would take place in the West German city of Augsburg.

[Moodybluebird]

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BBC archive: Cardiff City's 1968 squad welcomed home from Moscow - https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cn001jgk83zo

What a great clip ! Thanks for posting it.

To find ourself in the last 4 with Bayern Munich, AC Milan and Hamburg was the stuff of dreams.

[splott parker]

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Loved Norman’s trilby.

[Enoch Mort]

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I seem to remember the Grange End singing the chorus of this in response to the important goals that Noman Dean scored

[the other bob wilson]

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Great video that, thanks for posting it.

Funny how Norman Dean was probably the player most responsible for nearly getting us to the Final after Bob Wilson and yet he made hardly any impact for us in league football - he would be sold to Barnsley within months of him scoring his goals against Hamburg. In fact, both Wilson and Dean only played in the European ties because winter 1968 signings Brian Clark and Fred Davies were cup tied.

[Cardiff-Cal]

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Being pedantic, they were coming home from Augsburg, Germany, where the replay was played

A frenetic home match at Ninian Park in front of 30,000 saw Cardiff doggedly deny the Russians time on the ball. Chances were scarce, but the home side did gain a narrow advantage with a goal by winger Barrie Jones just before half-time. Torpedo dominated the return leg played for reasons of climate in distant Uzbekistan, though spirited defending once again by Cardiff denied them more than the single goal that levelled the tie on aggregate. This was a time when play-offs were still used to decide deadlocked ties so UEFA decided that would take place in the West German city of Augsburg.

Did you run a coach?