A second dip into the archives, this time going beyond
domestic matters and featuring the history of the European Champion Clubs’ Cup
Finals, at least up until 2011 – there are obviously 3 seasons’-worth of the
competition I need to catch up with and record before launching this season’s
edition, which will of course feature reigning league champions Marlow as
England’s representatives.
It quickly becomes apparent that Hungarian teams have
dominated matters (winning exactly half of the 30 tournaments recorded so far: the
competition between the Budapest clubs, and provincial Raba ETO Gyor’s with them,
being expanded onto a continental scale and generating fiercer rivalries yet), making
their complete absence from the last 3 finals a notable one, whilst
Internazionale are the third club to have triumphed on 4 occasions, with,
particularly, Barcelona and Sporting Lisbon also being serial finalists,
Sporting finally winning the cup at the sixth (ninth including replays) attempt
most recently. Immediately prior to that, Marlow (who have acquired a
pronounced French influence over recent seasons) became the first English club
to lift the trophy, after losing the previous final, with Gainsborough Trinity also
having reached the final twice, without ultimate success.
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