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    Keir RADNEDGE

    Aug 06, 2021 4 minutes

    Third European club competition is a welcome restoration

    At Villa Park on May19, 1999, Christian Vieri and Pavel Nedved scored the goals that gave Lazio a 2-1 win over Mallorca and secured their place in football history as the last-ever winners of the European Cup Winners’ Cup.

    UEFA president Lennart Johansson and his executive committee had decided that the competition was an anachronism. Never mind that in its 39-year history, winners had included the likes of Ajax, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Juventus, Manchester City and United, and Milan.

    However, the romance of the game had to bow to the bottom line. For Johansson’s UEFA, the lottery

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