Originally Posted by
Pacman1903
That's why I loved the ECWC. "Diddy" teams could win it and reach finals. We won it, Magdeburg won it, Dinamo Tblisi won it, Slovan Bratislava won it, Real Zaragoza won it, Paris St Germain won it(when their trophy cabinet had f@ck all and they were diddies), teams like Carl Zeiss Jena, Lokomotive Leipzig, Gornik Zabrze, MTK, Royal Antwerp reached finals. All this happened when big teams entered as the champions only went into the European cup meaning the two lesser trophies were stocked full of big teams . Look at our quarter finals line up as an example of the teams that were involved.
The UEFA had plenty diddy finalists , Videoton, Casino Salzburg, AZ Alkmaar, Bastia, celtic, Twente and only one real diddy winner Ipswich
The ECWC was a truly great trophy that created proper "cup romance" which was unfortunately killed by Champions League