Europe
Wimbledon were unable to compete in the 1988–89 European Cup Winners Cup, due to the ongoing ban on English teams from European competitions, following the actions of a group of Liverpool supporters in the 1985 European Cup Final Heysel disaster. At the time of the final it was hoped that the ban would be rescinded but after a number of incidents involving British fans during the 1988 European championships the FA withdrew their application for readmission.
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“I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
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—D.H. (David Herbert)
“New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)