Just two days after the 1965 FA Cup Final Success, Liverpool entertained Inter Milan in the European Cup Semi Final at Anfield. 1964-1965 Inter vs Milan 5-25' Jair, 17' Amarildo (Milan), 68' Domenghini, 73' Corso, 75' Amarildo (Milan), 81' Mazzola, 84' Mazzola 156 likes. No.8: A famous European night v Inter Milan in 1965 LFC We head back to 1965 and the night Liverpool claimed a major European scalp with the famous Kop playing their role as 12th man to devastating effect. But from the start decisions began going against them. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. Telegraph Audio Football Club podcast special: What next for football after Super League farce? Attendance: 54,082. It was so obvious. If De Mendibil was paid to help Inter win, then he took the secret to the grave. There are also suggestions a linesman flagged and was ignored. The 2005 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, Europe's primary club football competition. So what evidence is there that De Mendibil threw the match? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../liverpool-vs-inter-milan-1965 Yeats "We didn't seem to be getting anything in our favour," Ian St John recalls. There had been a long-running practice in Italy of sudditanza – literally "subjection" – or a referee favouring big-name teams. Night of dark deeds at the San Siro, Up to 50% discount on bed & breakfast stays across the UK, Use this Debenhams discount and save up to 70% on men's lines - Spring offer, Exclusive Ideal World promo code: 20% saving on fitness, Up to 70% AliExpress discount on super value deals this week, Argos promo: Up to 50% off in the Tu Kid clothing sale. ", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnvaLs53sII, Internazionale Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Chris Lawler 3. Willie Stevenson 7. "I also dragged him around [to face me] after the second goal but he just fluttered away." With an away goal, Inter had won long before Facchetti wrapped things up with a genuine finish. Liverpool became the fourth English side to reach the Champions League quarter-finals with victory against Inter Milan at the San Siro. Spanish official José María Ortiz de Mendíbil has long been suspected of helping to fix the result, based on the plentiful evidence of the systematic bribing officials in Italy at that time. The direct free-kick seems more suspicious.". "I didn't really see him properly," he says. Match Score: 3-1 (Liverpool FC wins) Referee: Karl Kainer. 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Ahead of the second-round tie against Anderlecht, he described the Belgians as "rubbish" and then, having beaten them 3-0 at Anfield, promptly admitted they were "one of the best teams in Europe". Inter Milan v Liverpool European Cup Semi final played on 12th March 1965 at the San Siro. "Shankly and Paisley always said afterwards that you had to be canny in Europe and with five European Cups since, you have to say the club learnt," he says. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. It has almost been forgotten in the ensuing controversy that St John later found the net for Liverpool, though that goal, perhaps inevitably, was disallowed. Everton vs. Liverpool, Inter Milan vs. AC Milan, Bundesliga and MLS: Weekend soccer viewers guide play Arsenal need 'Aubameyang's miracles' vs. Manchester City (0:53) But the footage suggests it was Lawrence who barged the Italian and that the goalkeeper might also shoulder some blame for the way the winger stole up to pinch the ball back from him. It was the investigations which followed which allow De Mendibil's conduct to be placed in a criminal context. "I've always said that if it had hit him he would have been unconscious and it might have opened up some inquiry into the whole business of that night," Smith says. Liverpool Football Club1. Suarez In that time span, stadium sharers AC Milan have won six European Cups and made nine finals. Smith For over 50 years it has been in a box, unseen. Liverpool FC v FC Internazionale/Inter Milan, May 4th 1965; Liverpool FC v FC Internazionale/Inter Milan, May 4th 1965 European Cup Semi Final. First came a free-kick which should have been indirect, but which Inter's Corso was allowed to fire direct, left-footed into the goal, past a bewildered Tommy Lawrence. Reports focused instead on Inter's gamesmanship and the partisan crowd. Match info. This is special, very special. Liverpool Fc one of the best teams in England or Inter Milan one of the best teams in Italy, which is better? "I don't know what the infringement was supposed to have been." Shankly's psychological ruses during Liverpool's progression to San Siro showed that he was no ingénu where European competition was concerned, even though this was Liverpool's first year in the tournament. Liverpool's bitter memories of Inter from '65 | Daily Mail Online. England Euro 2021 team: when will Gareth Southgate's squad be announced? Facchetti We have got all the match results from 1892 to today along with great player profiles Games for the 1964-1965 season - LFChistory - Stats galore for Liverpool … Peiro "I think the game did fit a pattern of bribery. "I just remember running through and putting the ball in," says St John. won its first ever FA Cup, thanks to a 2-1 additional time-victory … It is the very rare and sought after original and in very good condition. San Siro, 12 May 1965: a time and a place which are branded across the collective consciousness of Liverpool football club and, so it has always been said, haunted Bill Shankly to his grave. Bill Shankly’s generation will say this was the night it all began. But Shankly’s dreams of seeing Liverpool in a European Cup final were ruined in the second leg. "In the spirit of fairness, you have to say that stealing the ball as Peiro did is gamesmanship, but it was not at the time illegal. It was a precursor of what George Best accomplished against Gordon Banks for Northern Ireland in May 1971 – but while Best's goal was disallowed, Peiro's stood. Geoff Strong 5. Strong Can Sam Allardyce pull off the Premier League's greatest escape? His side won 3-1 in what Shankly deemed possibly the greatest of all Liverpool performances during his reign, but he would never forgive the Italians for what followed at San Siro a week later. But there is no evidence from Shankly that he believed there was a conspiracy at the time. Liverpool v Inter Milan 1965 European Cup Semi Final. No one knew of Jose Maria Ortiz de Mendibil before Liverpool appeared with the same two-goal, first-leg advantage which they defend tonight, but everyone did by the time Shankly's (right) side trooped off after a 3-0 defeat which meant that Inter, and not they, would be back at San Siro for the final. Milan scored a goal from an indirect free-kick which did not touch anyone and by kicking the ball from keeper Tommy Lawrence’s hands. The Milanese press had somehow taken offence at their parading the FA Cup at Anfield and described the Liverpool fans as "animals." Hunt But it is the Spaniard's extraordinary tolerance of Tommy Smith's attack which also raises suspicion for Mark Bushell, a football historian and director of World Football Exhibitions. Match: Liverpool FC vs FC Internazionale/Inter Milan. Liverpool 3 Inter Milan 1 European Super League: What next for the 10 men who will never be forgiven? Inter Milan v Liverpool 1965 programme Semi-final game away leg held in Milan on May 12th 1965 at the San Siro stadium, G. Together with a ticket for the home leg. Liverpool – 3-1 up from a first leg in which they were buoyed by overcoming Leeds 2-1 in the FA Cup final three days earlier and in which they had glittered – knew the going would be tough. No! 24 hours before the Inter Milan vs. Liverpool clash, there are mainly two ideas expressed by Inter manager Roberto Mancini. It is impossible to discern from the footage the extent of Liverpool's protest but their anger at the second was unbridled. LFChistory.net is all about the history of Liverpool FC. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. San Siro, 12 May 1965: a time and a place which are branded across the collective consciousness of Liverpool football club and, so it has always been … 3. Liverpool had won the FA Cup for the first time three days earlier and Shankly ordered his injured players to parade the trophy to whip an already raucous crowd into a frenzy. Bedin European Cup semi-final, first leg, 1965; agg 3-4. Ron Yeats (C) 6. Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum has an agreement in place with Inter Milan according to recent reports to join as a free agent at the end of the season •Liverpool VS Inter Milan•. {{#verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}} {{^verifyErrors}} {{message}} {{/verifyErrors}}, Did Italian job rob Shankly? FC Internazionale/Inter Milan v Liverpool FC, May 12nd 1965. Sport Letters: Did the 'Big Six' clubs really lose over Super League fiasco? The suspicion, fuelled by evidence of systematic bribery of referees by Italian officials from the 1960s, has always been that Liverpool were victims of forces beyond their control that night. Sarti St John Matchdetails from Liverpool - Inter Milan played on Tuesday 4 May 1965 - LFChistory - Stats galore for Liverpool FC! ", The positive outcome, says Done, was that the events of that Milan night hardened Liverpool to the vagaries of Europe. We just couldn't get on the ball." By James Benge. In 1964 Borussia Dortmund had a key man sent off in a semi-final at San Siro while the linesman Gyorgy Vadas has told how he was offered enough dollars to buy five Mercedes to help fix it for Inter to beat Real Madrid in the 1966 European Cup final. Lawler Thompson, Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Shankly might have been a hardened campaigner when Liverpool arrived in Milan to face Internazionale – as they finally do, once again, tonight – but nothing quite prepared him for the European Cup semi-final second leg there or for the Spanish referee whose name, to this day, still extracts a flinch of recognition in the pubs around Anfield. But the same cannot be said for Tommy Smith, who manhandled De Mendibil after the second goal and kicked out at him as the two sides trooped off. Tommy Lawrence 2. 25 – The 1965 Inter Milan Semi Final . Ian Callaghan 8. The paper quoted a Liverpool vice chairman complaining that "it is quite obvious that they will never let a British team win the European Cup." When Roger Hunt scored after just three minutes, the belief soared that Shankly would ensure Liverpool were England’s first winners of the European Cup. Shankly was adamant that Lawrence was fouled as Peiro and he tussled for the ball. It is a home video, in colour, filmed on 8mm cine film by ex-Liverpool player Tom Bush from May 4th 1965. Even in his 1978 biography, Shankly, written when awareness of match-fixing was widespread, he had no more to say on the subject than this: "Inter beat us 3-0 but not even their players enjoyed the game and we didn't think two of their goals were legal.". We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. 1965–66 →. Milan derby: Inter Milan at AC Milan Sunday, 9 a.m. The winger Joaquin Peiro hared down the left wing with the ball, only for Lawrence to beat him to it, collect on the edge of his area, and run back across his area, bouncing it. "If he had not been got at, then why didn't he red card Smith at the end of the game?" ET (ESPN+) Watch AC Milan vs. Inter Milan, ESPN+ (U.S. only) Last 10 derbies: Six wins for Inter, two for Milan, two draws The 1965 European Cup Final was the final match of the 1964–65 European Cup, the tenth season of Europe's premier club football tournament organized by UEFA. Perhaps less than legend allows. Burgnich "Not a throw-in or a free-kick. Three days after the final, Liverpool faced Italian team Inter Milan in the first leg of the semi-finals of the 1964–65 European Cup. Liverpool F.C. "Purple things – smoke bombs – landed on the steps in front of us and Bob Paisley's clothes were covered in smoke," the Liverpool manager recalled in his biography and his words provide a sense of how foreign, in every sense, the place must have seemed. LFC v Inter Milan: 1965 Sat 22nd Dec 2007| Anfield Online In May 1965 Liverpool, who days before had won the FA Cup for ths first time, faced Inter Milan in the European Cup semi-final. Moran A Liverpool goal in Italy was wrongly ruled out, apparently for offside, but memories of the Anfield first leg are still cherished. Jair Before the match kicked off, Byrne and Gordon Milne paraded the FA Cup around the stadium. European Super League cancelled: Which teams pulled out and what happens next? Stevenson Ronnie Moran 4. Viewed again, that most controversial second goal does not provide incontrovertible proof of a fix. Picchi "In a game like that you hope for sanity from a referee," he told journalists. Fernando Torres scored brilliantly on the turn after 64 minutes to give Liverpool a comfortable aggregate win. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. The prime mover was Dezso Solti, a Hungarian fixer who, according to the testimony of a number of officials, worked with Inter's secretary Angelo Moratti to persuade referees to fix matches and allow Inter to win. Phil Foden shines as Man City recover from first-minute Aston Villa goal to go 11 points clear. The footage of two highly contentious Inter goals which followed might be grainy (see web address below) but the frames belong to Liverpool legend. Guarneri It was Yates, among the journalists, who came closest to suggesting malign influences were at play – "this referee was clearly punishing Liverpool," he wrote – but that is as severe a panning as the referee got. "You have to stand back, allow the passions to fade," he says. Inter did win three UEFA Cups in the 1990s, and made a fourth final, but they haven’t reached a European Cup final since 1972 and haven’t lifted the trophy since 1965. Corso, Lawrence Bushell asks. Michael Charters of the Liverpool Daily Post complained of "time-wasting, sham injuries and interminable back-passing." Bill Shankly took Liverpool to the 1965 European Cup Semi Final in 1965, days after winning the FA Cup but Shanks dream was ruined … "He [did so] casually and neglected what was going on behind him," reported journalist Horace Yates. The Liverpool match sits right in the middle of a highly dubious period. No. Mazzola Callaghan Man City vs Tottenham, Carabao Cup final 2021: What time is kick-off, what TV channel is it on and what is our prediction? Even some of the British press gathered at San Siro that night believe Lawrence was complacent to run across his area bouncing the ball. England to be given another Euro 2020 'home' game as Uefa snubs Super League rebels Spurs, Euro 2020 fixtures: match dates, kick-off times and group-stage schedule for the 2021 tournament, England's Euro 2021 squad: Our verdict based on the latest Premier League action, Euro 2021 host cities: Wembley hopes boosted but Dublin in danger of being dropped. "I hoofed him in the left ankle but he just kept on walking, just as he did when I was screaming el bastido at him," Smith recalls. "While Liverpool prospered, Inter won nothing in Europe. But evidence emerged by the late 1960s of more systematic bribery of Italian officials. Conditions of Sale View Just before Smith swung his leg, a bottle was also thrown from the crowd which landed inches away from the referee. Original and official match programme, please note this is NOT a copy or reprint. It was played at the San Siro in Milan, Italy, between Italian side Internazionale and Portuguese side Benfica. 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