Full Description
From Tashkent With Love is a tale of courage, heartbreak and glory spanning four decades. It tells the remarkable story of Cardiff City's football adventures across Europe in the European Cup Winners' Cup. From the thrilling 1.0 victory against the mighty Real Madrid at Ninian Park in 1971, to the heartbreak of a last minute 3.2 home defeat in the semi-final against FC Hamburg in 1968, Cardiff's 24 Cup Winner's Cup games are all recalled by the best-selling author Mario Risoli who interviewed over 70 former players in the writing of this comprehensive book. Their 29-year European odyssey saw the Bluebirds face some of the biggest names in continental football - Sporting Lisbon, Zaragoza, FC Porto and Dynamo Berlin - and included their epic and pulsating 1968 quarter-final tie against the crack Soviet side Torpedo Moscow. With the game switched from icy Moscow to Tashkent, in what is now Uzbekistan, City were forced to make a remarkable 8,000-mile round trip to the borderlands of China and Afghanistan, a journey which still survives as one of the furthest distances travelled by any British club in a European cup competition.
Contents
1. The Hero King-Esbjerg, 1964 2. Glory Boys-Sporting Clube de Portugal, 1964 3. The Magnificos Are Coming-Real Zaragoza, 1965 4. Black and Blue-Standard Liege, 1965 5. A Celtic Affair-Shamrock Rovers, 1967 6. The Rat-Catchers-NAC Breda, 1967 7. The Amazing Soccer Safari-Torpedo Moscow, 1968 8. Champagne With Tears - SV Hamburg, 1968 9. Battle of the Das Antas - FC Porto, 1968 10. Men in Brown - Mjondalen, 1969 11. Falling on Ash and Sand - Goztepe, 1969 12. The Wrath of Scoular - Pezoporikos, 1970 13. Bluebirds versus Canaries - Nantes, 1970 14. Three Minutes of Madness - Real Madrid, 1971 15. Behind the Wall - Dynamo Berlin, 1971 16. Return To The Alvalade - Sporting Lisbon, 1973 17. Hard Times - Ferencvaros, 1974 18. A Geneva Convention - Servette, 1976 19. Back in the USSR - Dinamo Tbilisi, 1976 20. Oh, Vienna - Austria Memphis, 1977 21. No Trouble - Derry City, 1988 22. Jutland Destroyers - Aarhus, 1988 23. A Tie of Two Halves - Admira Wacker, 1992 24. Dreams and Nightmares - Standard Liege, 1993
