Re: Millwall forum

No desire to be a pedant or such like, but, the European ‘adventure’ in the early 60’s was NOT under the banner of Birmingham City.

UEFA was trying to get a tournament off the ground as a stable mate to the European Cup, it was given the title of the European Inter City Fairs Cup, comprising of teams from a number of Cities around Europe including Rome, Barcelona, Paris & London, plus two others & it was by invitation only.

That’s where the problems for UEFA began, to try & compile a team to represent London was, well an impossible task as there were numerous ‘issues’ between the clubs from the smoke as to how many players they could each release for this new European adventure, how would it be managed? What would happen if key players were injured? Not to mention some sort of compensation for such occurrences.

Given all this, UEFA withdrew the offer to London, & offered it to Birmingham.

No problem, chance to shine a light on the place in the middle of the country which didn’t get that much exposure.

So ‘Birmingham’ took part in the tournament with representatives from B6, B9 & B71.

It’s a funny old game. ????