55 seconds

Every football club has a sliding doors moment, a little tiny turn of a ball, a whistle from the referee that could change the life of an uncertain amount of people. For AS Roma that moment lasted 55 seconds: exactly the time between the penalty converted by the captain Agostino Di Bartolomei (after the one initially failed by Nicol) and the next one bagged by Neal. On May 30, 1984, for almost a minute, Roma was the European Champion by beating Ian Rush's Liverpool home.

That minute was interrupted by Bruno Conti, the first error penalty error. The English were no longer wrong. They marked Souness, Rush and Kennedy. After Conti, only Righetti managed to transform. With the error of Graziani and the last Kennedy network, Roma left the European Cup for Liverpool.

It was a moment that made the club's history on a sporting level and that shaped the psychology of the Romanist supporters forever. Thirty-four years are many in football, just look at the shirts of the teams, at the Olimpico without coverage and the front pages of newspapers. Daniele De Rossi did not even blow his first candle when his future team lost that final, for him and for all the others we have selected a series of photographs from that - damned - May 30, 1984.

Agostino di Bartolomei e Graeme Souness

L'ingresso delle squadre

Listino prezzi dei biglietti

La locandina della partita

La Curva Sud

Il Tempo, 15.05.1984

Il Messaggero 30.05.1984

La panchina del Liverpool

La formazione del Liverpool

Il biglietto della finale

Il gol di Phil Neal

Il gol di Roberto Pruzzo

Cartolina commemorativa della finale

Graeme Souness con la coppa

La prima pagina del Corriere dello Sport 31.05.1984