Bolton in Europe.

[Andy Waller]

I was in the new National Football Museum in Manchester with my dad and we saw something relating to Gheorghe Hagi, the Romainian striker/midfielder.

Both my dad and I can remember seeing him playing at Burnden but couldn't remember the circumstances. I'm sure it was in some sort of minor Euro-League thingy.

Can anyone shed any light on this??!

[boltonboris]

Anglo-Italian cup? Think he was at Bari or somewhere

[Andy Waller]

Anglo-Italian cup? Think he was at Bari or somewhere

Sounds about right!

[CAPSLOCK]

Brescia, I think

[as]

I was in the new National Football Museum in Manchester with my dad and we saw something relating to Gheorghe Hagi, the Romainian striker/midfielder.

Both my dad and I can remember seeing him playing at Burnden but couldn't remember the circumstances. I'm sure it was in some sort of minor Euro-League thingy.

Can anyone shed any light on this??!

Bari away, think he scored a 45 yarder!

[Worthy4England]

Brescia, I think

I think you might be right - on the grounds that he never played for Bari...

[Lord Kangana]

I was there! 1993. I think there was about 3k on. And the score was 3-3, if memory serves, with their keeper making a ludicrous Hollywood save that was going about 10 foot wide and 3 feet over.

Happy days.

[Andy Waller]

I'd have been 12 at the time so I can't remember it too well!

[boltonboris]

Was it Brescia who brought 1 fan? So they went and fetched him and stuck him in the corporate box?

[Bruce Rioja]

Didn't Jimmy Pip score an absolute belter against one of 'em?

[Leyther_Matt]

Didn't Jimmy Pip score an absolute belter against one of 'em?

Are you taking the Pisa?

[P.O.S.]

I started a thread about Anglo Italian cup yonks ago hoping for some stories/memories from the away trips. I think there were all of 500 people at the game in Pisa!

I looked at our results, it was a strange competition, we went unbeaten but didnt make it to Wembley.

I saw a final of the tournament once I think ITV carried highlights of it one year, Notts County scored direct from a throw in and the goal was allowed

[BWFC_Insane]

I started a thread about Anglo Italian cup yonks ago hoping for some stories/memories from the away trips. I think there were all of 500 people at the game in Pisa!

I looked at our results, it was a strange competition, we went unbeaten but didnt make it to Wembley.

I saw a final of the tournament once I think ITV carried highlights of it one year, Notts County scored direct from a throw in and the goal was allowed

Very strange. One in which you could play Brescia one week, then Sunderland the next....

Bizarro thinking back on it.

[Harry Genshaw]

Until the arrivals of our Galacticos at the Reebok, Georghe Haghi was one of the finest footballers I ever saw strut his stuff in Bolton. He was absolute class for Brescia in a 3-3 draw. The other home game that year was against (I think) Ascoli who we beat 5-0. We drew away 1-1 at Pisa and iirc Ancona. Phillips & Seagraves scoring in each.

I remember us winning 2-1 away at Tranmere (spit) in the competition and assuming we must have played well. The following day Rioch put half the side on the transfer list including a shocked Steve Fulton who had only joined us 3 months earlier for £300,000

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I thought Fulton was listed for certain other disagreements with Rioch, but I suppose they may have come to a head over that...

[Lord Kangana]

I rember that from Rioch too. We weren't doing too well at the time, and he had a major tantrum. It seems to have worked. I'm not sure it would now.

[David Lee's Hair]

I was there! 1993. I think there was about 3k on. And the score was 3-3, if memory serves, with their keeper making a ludicrous Hollywood save that was going about 10 foot wide and 3 feet over.

Happy days.

Ditto... in fact I was there with you.... What a match... He scored from the half way line with Aiden Davidson diving over one of the weakest shots I have ever seen.... infact it was one of the weakest goals I hasve seen at a Bolton game until that gaff from Walker when he was at Leicester

The other home game that year was against (I think) Ascoli who we beat 5-0.

Ancona... We played 2 of the big guns relegated from Serie A (Ancona and Brescia) but missed out on the biggest draw of Fiorentina with Abel Balbo and Bati-gol upfront.... Oh and wasn't it because Stevie Fulton smoked 20-a-day...